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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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Revolutionary War Admiralty Courts Mount Holly/Toms River/Great Egg Harbor:<br />

Captured Ship Stores Transported Across <strong>Pine</strong> <strong>Barrens</strong>. From Mount Holly Court of Admiralty Captured Cargo<br />

Sailed down Rancocas Creek to Delaware River Port Philadelphia<br />

Reference George Washington Papers 1778.<br />

10 June Maj. Gen Philemon Dickinson of the New Jersey militia<br />

reported to Gen Washington “Two valuable prizes were suck<br />

into Toms River, two days ago, by a small New England<br />

Privateer, part of Cargoes consists of one hundred & fifty<br />

hogsheads of Rum – this small Privateer within five weeks past ,<br />

has taken Prizes to the amount of One hundred & fifty<br />

thousand pounds”.<br />

14 June Brig Gen William Maxwell reported to Washington that<br />

a “Prize Schoor & two sloops had been captured and brought<br />

into Little Egg harbor, the first has 160 puncheons of Rum on<br />

board, the two latter loaded w fruit and Turtle

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