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Shipbuilding in Atlantic County/ A Bit of Mays Landing History Origins America's shipbuilding began at the mouths of rivers and bays. New Jersey's shore communities had all the pre-requisites for successful shipbuilding: Coastal commerce was close-at-hand varied forest lands provided good timber; ready supply of skilled labor; local furnaces forged nails; fittings and implements Colonial Sailing Vessels Whale boats were being built by the early eighteenth century. Then fishing boats were produced. Sloop-rigged craft with two, three or four masts became popular. Gradually, construction shifted from the sloop to the small schooner fitted for lumber and charcoal trade. American ships were now known for their modeling and durability. The size of vessels was gradually increased from three hundred to eight hundred tons, costing from $3,000 to $7,000. Ships left Mays Landing filled with charcoal and cordwood for calls in New York, Philadelphia, Virginia, the West Indies and South America. The Ship Builders South Jersey shipyards were plentiful and busy. A good portion of Atlantic County residents depended upon shipbuilding for their livelihood. By the first half of the 19th Century, there were shipyards in Absecon, Bargaintown, Port Republic and Mays Landing. Shipyards were also in Bakersville (known today as Northfield), and Leedsville (now known as Linwood). Absecon Creek was a major center with its small stream and deep channel. Over twenty-three ships were built at Absecon Creek and registered at Great Egg Harbor between 1858 and 1879. Seven of them were 3-masted schooners over 100 feet long. George Wheaton, also a shipbuilder, turned out two dozen schooners at his yard where the mouth of Babcock’s Creek empties into the Great Egg Harbor River. Israel Smith’s shipyard in English Creek produced schooners and smaller craft. Shipyards dotted the landscape at Green Bank, Port Republic and Batsto. Sloops and schooners were turned out at shipyards in Somers Point. In the Census of 1840, Atlantic County shipyards produced more than all the coastal counties in New Jersey. The value of ships and vessels produced in Atlantic County that year was $104,000 as compared to Cape May County ($39,000), Cumberland County ($44.000), and Burlington County ($15,000). Mays Landing became the center of shipbuilding in Atlantic County. George May, the founder of Mays Landing, was a blacksmith and shipbuilder. In the mid-18th century, he had opened a store supplying vessels putting into Great Egg Harbor. Other Mays Landing shipwrights were Samuel Gaskill, James and John Clark and Nicholas Lane. It was then that Mays Landing reached the height of its shipbuilding. From 1830 to 1880, more than two hundred vessels were built along the Great Egg Harbor River with lumber from native forests and iron from Weymouth foundries. Half of them were produced at Mays Landing. Shipbuilding began to disappear due to the lack of suitable timber. Iron was then substituted for hull construction. By 1890, there were only twelve shipyards in South Jersey employing about five hundred men, where once a great industry had flourished along its riverbanks. The era of the great sailing ships in American commerce had passed. The schooner "License" was built for Capt. John Pennington and carried sugar up the Great Egg Harbor River where it was then stored near Babcock’s Creek at the foot of a hill. This favored storage spot later became known as "Sugar Hill". Rancocas Pathways 392
Mays Landing and Privateers George May, after whom the village of May's Landing was named, built a shipyard and trading post near Babcock Creek in 1756. During the Revolutionary War, militia privateer, Captain Samuel Snell, captured 19 British ships off the river’s inlet, selling their cargo and ships at the docks at May's Landing. The early 1800’s saw Mays Landing become a thriving waterfront town with George Wheaton building over 100 sailing vessels with lumber harvested from area pine forests. In the 1850’s Senator William Moore owned a fleet of more than 50 sailing vessels engaging in commerce along the entire eastern seaboard sailing commodities of sugar, molasses and rum, arrived from the Far East by sailing ships then sailed to Philadelphia. In nearby Weymouth, cannons and cannonballs for the War of 1812 were produced on the site of Atlantic County Park at Weymouth Furnace, until it was destroyed by fire. By the twentieth century, shipbuilding began to disappear with the decline in suitable resources. Iron was then substituted for ship hull construction. Rancocas Pathways 393
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Preface: Conventional Wisdom Holist
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America’s Pinelands National Rese
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Lies here the hull of an old ship S
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Q u a r t z i te / S i l i c e o u
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Mosaic - Warm Ambiance - Reflection
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S A d v o c a c y C r e a te s E n
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Pinelands National Reserve Maritime
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Three Themes of the Holistic Narrat
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Forged Ring Forged Fluke Rancocas P
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Citizen science is widely recognize
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Acknowledgements and Conventional W
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1944 B-17 Flight Over Mount Holly A
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Maritime Cultural Landscapes Connec
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Pinelands National Reserve Tidewate
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North Branch Rancocas Creek - Monro
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Mount Holly National Historic Distr
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Value of Navigable Waterways and Ma
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A survey of the roads of the United
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Rancocas Creek Water Trail Mile 20
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Pinelands National Reserve, America
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Rancocas Creek East Coast Maritime
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Pine Barrens Maritime Ports and Coa
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Sphagnum Moss Oysters (pine or ceda
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Key - Highlighted waters Pine Barre
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1876 Maurice River Shipyards Ref: C
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Almost 400 years of Maritime Trade
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New Jersey 1797 - Lower Pine Barren
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Absegami yesteryear / By Jack E. Bo
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Silence, Preserve Thee Resting Soul
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Detailed Descriptions NJ Pinelands
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What Are the NJ Pine Barrens ? NJ P
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New Jersey Pinelands National Reser
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Mount Holly Toms River NJ Pine Barr
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Approximate Location NJ Pinelands S
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Rancocas Creek Sand Barge New Jerse
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West Jersey and NJ Pinelands Nation
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October 22, 1778 New Jersey Admiral
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Revolutionary War Admiralty Courts
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A Sense of Place - Pine Barrens Gla
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Pinelands Pinelands “Core” Area
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Fernwood Springs - Pine Barrens Wes
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1863 Description of the Pine Barren
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Western Outflow NJ Pinelands Nation
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Fernwood Springs, Last remaining At
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NJ Pinelands National Reserve Trifi
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Rancocas Creek Pinelands National R
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What Stands Out ? 400 Years Maritim
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Courtesy RF. Early Rancocas Creek W
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Stone Quarry Landing - Rancocas Sta
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Burlington Island , Delaware River
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Tidal Maritime Industrial Pinelands
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Rancocas Drainage Beaver Trade эк
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Approximate Location Rancocas Creek
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Timbuctoo 138 Miles from Delaware C
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Benjamin Lundy , the moist unwearie
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Timbuctoo - Jetty Civil War Soldier
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Timbuctoo Wooden Structure Tidal Ch
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Female Wood Duck - Old Mill - Mount
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North Branch Rancocas Creek Headwat
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Whites Bog State and National Histo
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Historic Smithville: Industrializat
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Iron Works Hill - N Branch Rancocas
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Burlington County Lyceum and Widow
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Mt. Holly’s Flood Control Bypass
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Mount Holly N Branch Rancocas Creek
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1942 Tidal Weir under Construction
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1941 Flood Channel - Mount Holly -
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Kayaking West - Leaving Mount Holly
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Remains of 1700’s Tidal Tide Mill
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North Branch Remains of Hainesport
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1875 Charles Stokes Rancocas Creek
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Rancocas State Park Western Border
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Stone Quarry Landing Hainesport 273
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Port of Philadelphia Delaware River
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Cohansey River Bridgeton Sailing ou
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What is a Hinterland ? NJ Pinelands
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Lumbering Cedar Trees Soft, Durable
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Atlantic White Cedar Tree up to 80
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Photos Reference: Henry Ford Founda
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NJ Pinelands National Reserve Free
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Early Forges and Furnaces of South
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PLNR Charcoal Was Wagoned to Texas
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Charcoal Landings - Mays Landing -
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Activity for Kids & Maritime Relate
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2017 Patron Use Statistics Citizens
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List of Plants Collected on Ship’
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