This house can be found along Rt. 72. Most people agree it’s around 100 years old. It also has a double outhouse behind it. I stopped at the gas station next to it and asked for some info on it. The guy there said nobody’s lived in it...
Most people look at you funny if you tell them there’s a 6 story elephant near Atlantic City. Lucy was built in 1881 to attract people to Margate (South A.C. at the time) and to hopefully buy property there. Over the years, she’s been a real estate office,...
Not much to say about this one. I came here originally to get some better pics of the Crabbe Cemetery, but I figured since Allaire, Batsto, and Whitesbog are on the site, I might as well include another restored ghost town. Not much to say about this one;...
Allaire was the home of Howell Ironworks from the early to mid 1800’s. Once it was realized coal from Pennsylvania was more practical than bog iron, Allaire, along with other bog iron towns in central & southern NJ, eventually became a ghost town. Most of the buildings still...
Whitesbog was founded around 1870 and produced a blueberries & cranberries well into the 20th century. The town is surprisingly well-preserved. The general store even has an old soda machine in front of it. We did manage to find some remains of a building in the woods. And...
For those of you who don’t already know what the Palace Depression is, Roadside America has some nice writeups. I heard about the reconstruction of the Palace a few years ago. I was a bit disappointed to see not much has been done yet. Looks like they just...
The oldest cemetery in Salem, Burying Point has at least 1 Mayflower passenger and many people involved in the Salem Witch trials. Many of the stones are from the 1600’s, which I found fascinating. We don’t have cemeteries that old down this way. Many of the stones were...
