Pine Barrens Ghost Towns

If you drive south on Double Trouble Road in South Toms River you’ll parallel the Garden State Parkway, at the end, at the intersection of County Road 618 you will be staring straight ahead at Double Trouble State Park.

Double Trouble got it’s start in the early 19th century as a sawmill. Just who started building […]

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Now that the series of iron making in the pines is complete, I wanted to share this BBC animation I found recently. It’s actually quite fun. You can build the furnace, and then click the start button and watch it add the iron ore, charcoal (coke) and the entire process.  Oh, here’s the Link :  BBC […]

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Part three in the series on iron making.

As the mixture of bog ore, charcoal and flux was heated, the flux would float the impurities to the top where they would be raked off. If you visit some of the lost towns like Atsion and take a walk in the woods you can still see some […]

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