The back of the fort as seen from Fort Mott. We noticed on one of our visits to Fort Mott that a ferry runs among 3 forts: Forts Mott, Delaware, and DuPont. I found out Fort Delaware is on its own island, Pea Patch Island, in the middle...
Most Americans know what the Boston Tea Party was, but not many are aware the act was not unique to Boston. Nope, there were a couple of “tea parties”, one happening in southern NJ. In 1774, a year after the defiance in Boston, a tea party happened along...
This small park is in Sewell in Gloucester County, pretty close to the Pebble Palace. What a brilliant idea. People are always sad to see an old important building in their town taken down for something stupid like a pizza joint. So what did these folks do? Why,...
How I’ve not seen or heard about this place sooner I don’t know, since it’s just up the road a bit from Friendship. This rock, which dwarfs the nearby Carranza Monument (not in height but overall size) is off the “main road” that runs through the ruins of...
Smithville was a factory town founded by Hezekiah B. Smith in the 1860’s and lasted until the 1920’s. What makes this town stand out from any other is its “bicycle railroad” that was built in the 1880’s. It connected Smithville to Mt. Holly and allowed workers to go...
NJ’s last “original” covered bridge and one of only two in the state, the Green Sergeant’s bridge almost met its end in 1960. The bridge was dismantled to make way for a “more modern” bridge. Well, the people didn’t take too kindly to the old bridge being taken...
One of only two covered bridges left in NJ, Scarborough is tiny as far as covered bridges go; it’s only 55′ long. Depending on who you talk to, this bridge isn’t even considered a “true” covered bridge since it was only built in 1959.
This tiny historically significant area can be found tucked away in Haddonfield, at the dead end of a tiny road. Across from this area was a farm in 1858, when William P. Foulke unearthed the first ever near-complete dinosaur skeleton. The beast was named Hadrosaurus foulkii, after both...
