More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey [Paperback]

Henry Charlton Beck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1963

More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey by Henry Charlton Beck. 1963 trade paperback published by Rutgers University Press.

Product Details

• Paperback: 338 pages
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press (October 1, 1963)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813504325
• ISBN-13: 978-0813504322
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #627,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books on South Jersey history and folklore., January 18, 2000

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Donald B. Caselli (the Pine Barrens of Southern NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey (Paperback)

This book is the companion volume to the original "Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey". If you own one of them, you must own the other. Excellent for discovering how things used to be (and still are, in some cases). If you live in NJ, and love local history, you need to buy this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book about NJ local history, October 26, 2005

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Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey (Paperback)

This is Henry Charlton Beck's second book in a series all dealing with local history and lore of various sections of the state. Two of the volumes deal with locations found in southern NJ, and this was published a year (1937) after the first book. It has always remained in print.

As in the first volume Beck visits and relates the history of roughly 45 forgotten (there once, now gone) towns (though many of these "towns" were more often just placenames on a map). Where the first volume concentrated primarily on the Pine Barrens region, here Beck spreads out a little more, reaching as far north as Upper Freehold Township and south as Cape May County. Many of the places he writes about are quickly falling prey to developers today: the photo of the sleepy Cassville intersection, which is only a short distance from Great Adventure, is a huge, busy intersection today. Another photo is mis-captioned: on p. 147, what's identified as an old tavern at Washington (a much-visited ruin not far off Rt. 563 just south of Jenkins in the Pines) is actually the walls of a stable.

Beck's books are not only informative, but a lot of fun. He gets the juices flowing for wanting to go exploring, and once you start seeking out some of the places he describes, he fills in the sometimes empty, sometimes vastly changed locations with provocative historical information. Unfortunately, as in the first volume, there are still no maps, but there is an index this time.