NJ Pine Barrens Maritime-Culture-Landscape 1 1 2024
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NJ Pine Barrens Maritime-Culture-Landscape 1 1 2024

Pine Barrens forests, striking waterways, narrow lakes, bogs, ghost towns, furnaces and more. NJ Pinelands National Reserve landscape tells the tale of a time when glaciers covered this land, when ship-building towns ruled, when Ben Franklin spoke of preserving the one million acres of the Pine Barrens, when pirates sailed and where NJ sets the standard of heritage. This 500 page presentation of the Pinelands National Reserve maritime cultural landscapes, shows a great expanse of time. It includes six major Pinelands National Reserve watersheds: Rancocas Creek, Toms River, Mullica River, Great Egg Harbor River, Maurice River, Cohansey River. Explore, discover, enjoy a peek into the Pinelands National Reserve fascinating maritime landscapes, more often forgotten than remembered. A step back in time, a step forward to the future.

Pine Barrens forests, striking waterways, narrow lakes, bogs, ghost towns, furnaces and more.
NJ Pinelands National Reserve landscape tells the tale of a time when glaciers covered this land, when ship-building towns ruled, when Ben Franklin spoke of preserving the one million acres of the Pine Barrens, when pirates sailed and where NJ sets the standard of heritage. This 500 page presentation of the Pinelands National Reserve maritime cultural landscapes, shows a great expanse of time. It includes six major Pinelands National Reserve watersheds: Rancocas Creek, Toms River, Mullica River, Great Egg Harbor River, Maurice River, Cohansey River. Explore, discover, enjoy a peek into the Pinelands National Reserve fascinating maritime landscapes, more often forgotten than remembered. A step back in time, a step forward to the future.

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<strong>Maritime</strong> Cultural <strong>Landscape</strong>, <strong>NJ</strong>’s Coastal Hinterland <strong>NJ</strong> <strong>Pine</strong> <strong>Barrens</strong><br />

Reference: Richard Forman, <strong>Pine</strong> <strong>Barrens</strong> <strong>Landscape</strong>s, 1979<br />

1799: Collector of Customs records – 20 sailing vessels regularly docked at<br />

Somer's Point. Vsls made 16 trips per year to Philadelphia and NYC. Cargo<br />

timber from Egg Harbor hinterland, the <strong>NJ</strong> <strong>Pine</strong> <strong>Barrens</strong>. Each voyage per<br />

year moved 35 thousand board feet per voyage or 11,200,000 board feet<br />

per year. Fuel Wood by 1833 steamboats w “their hug maws” fed an<br />

insatiable appetitive w thousands of shallop loads of <strong>Pine</strong> <strong>Barrens</strong> wood .<br />

Between 1815-1945 one hundred vessels of 20-100 tons sailed from the<br />

Mullica River carrying cordwood. 50 other vessels operated from<br />

Barnegat Bay. Heavy cutting is recorded in the 1840 census around the<br />

Great Egg Harbor River and Mullica River<br />

Fernwood Springs<br />

<strong>NJ</strong> <strong>Pine</strong> <strong>Barrens</strong> Western Fringe<br />

Rancocas Pathways 467

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