Batsto Village is an historic site located in the South Central New Jersey Pine Barrens, and is nationally recognized for its historical significance and beauty. Two centuries of American history are available to visitors, with the Pine Barrens creating a natural scenic backdrop. The Batsto Iron Works were built along the Batsto River in 1766, as Batsto had the natural resources necessary for making iron. Bog ore was “mined” from the banks of nearby streams and rivers, wood from the forests became charcoal for fuel, and the river furnished power for manufacturing. Available to visitors are a sawmill, a gristmill, a general store, a wheelwright and blacksmith shop, and various barns which were first erected for storage of wagons, equipment, and to house [...]
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New JerseyThe former company town called Double Trouble contained a cranberry farm and packing plant, and is now a window into past and current industries in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The Double Trouble Company was formed to sell timber, millwork products and cranberries, and a succession of sawmills have been situated here since the mid-1700s. The village consists of cranberry bogs and original historic structures dating from the late 19th century through the early 20th century, including a general store, a schoolhouse and cottages. The sawmill was restored in 1995, and restoration of the cranberry sorting and packing house was completed in [...] Located in Hewitt, Passaic County, New Jersey, Long Pond Ironworks State Park is known for its old stone walls, furnaces and other remnants of a once industrious ironworking community that sits next to the swiftly flowing Wanaque River. The remnants of the ironmaking structures date from the 18th and 19th centuries, and include furnaces, casting house ruins, charging areas, ice houses, water wheels and other [...] By the 1740s, Colonial prospectors in the Highlands Region of Northern New Jersey had begun to smelt the local iron ore and settled here to utilize its streams for hydro-power. Ringwood Manor was home to a number of well-known ironmasters from the colonial era to the late 19th century. During the American Revolution, Robert Erskine managed three ironmaking plantations from his headquarters at Ringwood, and the Colonial Manor House saw at least five visits from General Washington. New York’s Peter Cooper and his son-in-law, Abram S. Hewitt, purchased the properties in 1854 for their rich local iron deposits, but Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt set about making the Ringwood estate their summer home. Hewitt enlarged the manor during the 1860s and 70s, and the completed house contains 51 rooms built in a wide range of styles characterizing the Victorian [...] At one time the Delaware River region was dotted with mills of every size and variety, providing a variety of services and products. Located on a site at the juncture of the Wickeckeoke Creek and the Delaware River used as the heart of an industrial complex which existed as early as 1720, the Prallsville Mills Complex includes a restored grist mill, saw mill and linseed oil mill. All of these facilities are open for public tours, as is the restored home of an early owner of the [...] Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park is a New Jersey state park along the Delaware and Raritan Canal, built in central New Jersey in the 1830s to connect the Delaware River with the Raritan River. The canal enabled shippers to greatly shorten the route from Pennsylvania coal fields to New York City, a route which formerly took them around Cape May and up along the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey. Most of the canal system was declared a State Park in 1974, and is now used for canoeing, kayaking, and [...] Sandy Hook is a barrier spit, approximately 6 miles in length and half-a-mile wide along the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey. It encloses the southern entrance of Lower New York Bay. Most of Sandy Hook is managed by the National Park Service as the Sandy Hook Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area, which includes the Sandy Hook Lighthouse, the oldest working lighthouse in the United States. Overlooking Sandy Hook Bay are the Navesink Twin Lights, a non-operational lighthouse and museum located in Highlands, New [...] The Sterling Hill Mining Museum is a former iron and zinc mine in Sussex County, the northernmost county in the State of New Jersey. Early industry and commerce there centered mainly around agriculture and iron mining, but shifted during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to focus on several factories and the mining of zinc. Sterling Hill was the last working underground mine in New Jersey when it closed in [...] |
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