Mulliner the Mariner: The Man Beyond the Myth
Those familiar with the New Jersey Pine Barrens have probably heard the legend of Joe Mulliner, the infamous outlaw who is said to have terrorized the inhabitants of the Pines during the American War...
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Review – The Domestic Life of the Jersey Devil
Bill Sprouse’s book, The Domestic Life of the Jersey Devil, chronicles his investigation into the origins and meaning of the Jersey Devil myth. When Sprouse was young his grandmother, Helen Leeds (lovingly referred to...
Review – Batsto Village: Jewel of the Pines
Between the 18th and 19th centuries the Pine Barrens were home to a number of industrial ventures. Iron furnaces, forges, glass, and paper factories dotted the landscape, springing up wherever abundant water power and...
The Legendary Pine Barrens: New Tales From Old Haunts
Manufacturing stories and tall-tales is an industry linked to South Jersey as much as iron making or growing cranberries has been. For centuries, the folks of Down Jersey have spun fantastic yarns; take, for...
Atsion: Part 3 – To the Modern Day
This is the final article in a three part series looking at the history of the ghost town of Atsion. You can find part one of the series at this link, and part two...
Atsion: Part 2 – Prosperity and Decline
This is part two of a three part series looking at the history of the ghost town of Atsion. You can find part one at this link. Samuel Richards, good-looking and enormously successful, was...
Atsion: Part 1 – The Charles Read Era
Henry Drinker, a wealthy Quaker merchant in Philadelphia, wrote: “I expect it will be nothing new to hear that we Iron Masters are in general a sett of Hungry, needy beings, frequently bare of...
Remembering Howard Boyd
It was the summer of 1968 that we met by chance on the edge of the West Plains near Coyle field. While photographing buck-moth caterpillars, I noticed a crouching figure nearby that I presumed...
The History of the Cedar Bridge Fire Tower
In 1924 records show that the first Cedar Bridge fire lookout (60 foot Aermoter) was erected on a small knoll near the Cedar Bridge Hotel on the old Cedar Bridge Barnegat Road. If you...
The Beauty and the Wealth of a Land of Desolation
In the Pine Barrens: The Beauty and the Wealth of a Land of Desolation Originally published in the New York Tribune, August 6, 1893. You may still call it, as of old, the province...
