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Plants of Southern New Jersey: A Work in Progress
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| "For in the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." - B. Dioum |
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NJ Pine barrens & Down Jersey: Exploring the history, culture, & ecology of South Jersey
Pine barrens tree frog photo courtesy US Fish & Wildlife Public Domain images
Pull up a chair, grab a cup of tea (or perhaps a sip of Jersey Lightnin' Applejack!) and enjoy your stay. The New Jersey Pine Barrens, or Pinelands, is the largest contiguous wilderness area on the eastern seaboard from New England to Virginia. The Pine Barrens include portions of seven counties: Ocean County, Burlington County, Gloucester County, Atlantic County, Cumberland County, Cape May County, and Camden County. These Pine "Barrens" offer a fascinating array of plants, animals, history and culture. It abounds with long forgotten towns, railroads and industries; exquisite orchids and wildflowers; and rare and fascinating animals like the pine barrens tree frog and the timber rattlesnake. Join us as we explore the wonderful New Jersey Pinelands!
More on the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.
Down Jersey is the area of southern New Jersey that refers to life
along the Delaware Bay Shore of New Jersey, and encompasses portions of Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem Counties. This area has natural, maritime, agricultural, cultural histories that give it a flavor of its own. Down Jersey retains its quaint charm because of the cultural connection to the land and water. For generations the connection has been shown in many forms: crabbers, fishermen, boat builders, oystermen, decoy carvers, and baymen. They have passed on their skills and ways of life to their children.
Scene from the Maurice River; an oil painting inspired by the Down Jersey curriculum produced by Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and its Tributaries.
Be sure to visit our documents page for over 200 historical articles.
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NJ Pine barrens & Down Jersey historical e-books
Older books on New Jersey are difficult and expensive to procure.
NJ Pines & Down Jersey is endeavouring to transcribe a number of these older, difficult to find out-of-print historical books relating to the history of New Jersey.
All books were published pre-1924.
Selection currently includes:
Absegami: Annals of Eyren Haven and Atlantic City by Alfred Heston.
1872 Beers State Atlas.
Civil and Political History of New Jersey: Embracing a Compendious History of the State from its Early Discovery and Settlement by Europeans, brought down to the Present Time. by Isaac S. Mulford. 1851.
A Gazateer of the State of New Jersey by Thomas Gordon. 1834.
The History of New Jersey from its Discovery by Europeans to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution.by Thomas Gordon. 1834.
A History of New Jersey from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time.Edited by W.H. Carpenter and T.S. Arthur. 1856.
The Life Areas of Southern New Jersey by Witmer Stone. 1908.
The Life of John Brainerd, the Brother of David Brainerd, and His Successor as Missionaries to the Indians of New Jersey. by Thomas Brainerd. Published 1865.
The Quaker Colonies: a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware Sydney Fisher. 1919.
The Swedes and the Dutch in New Jersey and Delaware. 1627. Israel Acrilius.
Report on the Geology and Agricultural Resources of the Southern Division of the State. by George Hammell Cook, State Geologist. 1857.
More to come!!
Visit our historical ebooks page.
Created on 2003-02-04 10:24:27 by admin
Updated on 2008-03-31 08:28:26 by njpinela
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Pine Barrens Celebration |
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Posted by: njpinela on 01/05/2009 07:44 AM
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Sunday, March 8, 2009: Fourth Annual "Lines on the Pines:
A (Pine) Barrens Celebration " will be held at The Vienna Inn, 920 W. White Horse Pike, Egg Harbor City, from 1PM to 4PM. Come out and meet your favorite authors and artists! It will be followed by a buffet dinner featuring author Howard Boyd as keynote speaker. Buffet dinner (4:30-7:30) is $30 until Feb. 1. For more information, call 609-561-1665 or email strawberry1rose@comcast.net
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| Did You Know? |
Did you know that Greenwich, Cumberland County, had its own tea burning party?
The Greenwich Tea Party took place in Greenwich, NJ on Dec. 22,1774. This event was influenced by the famous Tea Party that took place in Boston in 1773.
As with the Boston "Tea Party", the local people dressed up as Native Americans and burned the tea because they didn't like the taxes the British put on the tea. The British had taxed tea, the most popular beverage of the time, because they had lost a lot of money during the French and Indian War. The British taxed the tea in an effor to recoupe monetary losses that they felt the colonists owed for Britain's protection during that war.
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