Author: Arthur Dudley Pierce
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813505145
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Deep in the heart of southern New Jersey lies an area of some 96,000 acres of sprawling wilderness. It is the famous Wharton Tract which the state of New Jersey purchased in 1954 for a watershed, game preserve, and park. Many people know and love these wooded acres. Each year, people by the thousands visit Batsto Village, once the center of the iron industry that thrived on the tract more than a century ago. With warmth and accuracy, Arthur D. Pierce tells the story of the years when iron was king, and around it rose a rustic feudal economy. There were glass factories, paper mills, cotton mills, and brickmaking establishments. Here, too, were men who made those years exciting: Benedict Arnold and his first step toward treason; Charles Read, who dreamed of an empire and died in exile; Revolutionary heroes and heroines, privateers, and rogues. The author's vivid pictures of day-to-day life in the old iron communities are based upon careful research. This book proves that the human drama of documented history belies any notion that fiction is stranger than truth.
Iron in the Pines
Iron in the Pines
Author: University Press Rutgers
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ISBN: 9780813502670
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Languages : en
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Iron in the Pines
Author: Arthur D. Pierce
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Iron in the pines; the story of New Jersey's ghost towns and bog iron. Fifth printing
Author: Arthur Dudley Pierce
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The Pine Barrens
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708673
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the "Pineys," are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people—and their distinctive folklore—who call it home.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708673
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the "Pineys," are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people—and their distinctive folklore—who call it home.
Batsto Village
Author: Barbara Solem
Publisher: Plexus Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781940091013
Category : Batsto (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Founded in the 1760s, Batsto grew into a thriving industrial community through the Revolutionary War years and beyond.
Publisher: Plexus Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781940091013
Category : Batsto (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Founded in the 1760s, Batsto grew into a thriving industrial community through the Revolutionary War years and beyond.
New Jersey’s Lost Piney Culture
Author: William J. Lewis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Deep within the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Piney people have built a vibrant culture and industry from working the natural landscape around them. Foraging skills learned from the local Lenapes were passed down through generations of Piney families who gathered many of the same wild floral products that became staples of the Philadelphia and New York dried flower markets. Important figures such as John Richardson have sought to lift the Pineys from rural poverty by recording and marketing their craftsmanship. As the state government sought to preserve the Pine Barrens and develop the region, Piney culture was frequently threatened and stigmatized. Author and advocate William J. Lewis charts the history of the Pineys, what being a Piney means today and their legacy among the beauty of the Pine Barrens.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Deep within the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Piney people have built a vibrant culture and industry from working the natural landscape around them. Foraging skills learned from the local Lenapes were passed down through generations of Piney families who gathered many of the same wild floral products that became staples of the Philadelphia and New York dried flower markets. Important figures such as John Richardson have sought to lift the Pineys from rural poverty by recording and marketing their craftsmanship. As the state government sought to preserve the Pine Barrens and develop the region, Piney culture was frequently threatened and stigmatized. Author and advocate William J. Lewis charts the history of the Pineys, what being a Piney means today and their legacy among the beauty of the Pine Barrens.
The Pines, Crystal Lake, Gilmanton Iron Works, N.H. ; J.W. Blackey, Prop
Author: N. H.) Crystal Lake (Gilmanton Iron Works
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Languages : en
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The Pine Barrens of New Jersey
Author: Karen F. Riley
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738573502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Presents a pictorial history of New Jersey's Pine Barrens, and the people who lived there during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738573502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Presents a pictorial history of New Jersey's Pine Barrens, and the people who lived there during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Utilization of the Southern Pines
Author: Peter Koch
Publisher:
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Category : Forest products industry
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Category : Forest products industry
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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