Monthly Archives: March 2019

Fire In The Pine Barrens!

Rich Lewis2019-03-20T19:11:05-04:00March 17th, 2019|

Preserving the Black Run Preserve with a Controlled Burn When a crew of New Jersey Forest Service Firefighters show up at the 1200 acre Black Run Preserve in the Pine Barrens, you'd think they were there to fight a fire, not start one. However, that was what they were there to do. Fire in the Pine Barrens is part of the natural [...]

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A Pine Barrens Ruin

Rich Lewis2019-03-11T15:06:51-04:00March 10th, 2019|

Every picture tells a story, but which one? Of all the ghost towns in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Amatol may be the strangest. Hastily built in 1917 during World War I, the town's sole purpose was to staff a munitions factory. At one point Amatol had a population of over 7000 people with churches, a YMCA, speedway, movie theater and more. [...]

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