Iron in the Pines: The Story of New Jersey's Ghost Towns and Bog Iron Paperback - 1965
by Arthur Pierce
From the rear cover
Deep in the heart of southern New Jersey lies an area of some 96,000 acres of sprawling wilderness. It is the famous Wharton Tract which the state of New Jersey purchased in 1954 for a watershed, game preserve, and park. Many people know and love these wooded acres. Each year, people by the thousands visit Batsto Village, once the center of the iron industry that thrived on the tract more than a century ago.
With warmth and accuracy, Arthur D. Pierce tells the story of the years when iron was king, and around it rose a rustic feudal economy. There were glass factories, paper mills, cotton mills, and brickmaking establishments. Here, too, were men who made those years exciting: Benedict Arnold and his first step toward treason; Chrales Read, who dreamed of an empire and died in exile; Revolutionary heroes and heroines, privateers, and rogues. The author's vivid pictures of day-to-day life in the old iron communities are based upon careful research. This book proves that the human drama of documented history belies any notion that fiction is stranger than truth.
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- Title Iron in the Pines: The Story of New Jersey's Ghost Towns and Bog Iron
- Author Arthur Pierce
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 268
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
- Date 1965-12-15
- ISBN 9780813505145 / 0813505143
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.53 x 0.66 in (21.69 x 14.05 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New Jersey
- Library of Congress subjects Ghost towns - New Jersey - Wharton State, Historic sites - New Jersey - Wharton State
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 83024739
- Dewey Decimal Code 974.9
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