13 New Jersey Towns That Were Slowly Abandoned

Описание: Some New Jersey towns didn't just fade they disappeared entirely. One man's retirement wiped out a village. A murder got buried under a hoax. If your family has South Jersey roots, they may have called one of these places home.

Towns covered:
Walpack Center — $100 million spent, dam never built
Batsto Village — Washington's supplier in the Pine Barrens
Waterloo Village — a canal town that ran out of purpose
Allaire Village — 400 residents, then none
Whitesbog — where the cultivated blueberry was born
Raritan Landing — a colonial port buried under a university
Double Trouble — named itself
Feltville — built by one man, left by one man
Long Pond Ironworks — fed the Revolution, taken back by the forest
Atsion — three industries, three failures
Ong's Hat — an old mystery buried under a newer story
Harrisville — one fire, then silence
Johnsonburg — still on the map, still fading

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