Pine Barrens Ghost Towns

A weekend trek to Historic Batsto Village on Sunday October 18, 2009 will have something country for everyone. This year’s Batsto Country Living Fair is set for Sunday, October 18. it will run  from 10 am to 4:00 pm. http://www.batstovillage.org/country-living-fair.htm

There will be crafts, exhibits, music, old-time engines & cars, food, antiques, pony rides, farm equipment, chain-saw art, quilting, and more.

The video above is from last year’s Country Living Fair.  Batsto is one of the few places in the Pine Barrens where you can really get a taste for what life was like in the early days of this nation. From the owners mansion to the workers homes. Begun as a sawmill, Batsto was also home to an Iron Furnace and later a glass making facility. To learn more about Batsto and the other towns of the Pine Barrens, be sure to pick up your own copy of the Award-winning Documentary “Lost Towns of the Pine Barrens, Vol. I”  today