Arthur Pierce

Iron in the Pines

The Story of New Jersey's Ghost Towns and Bog Iron

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Deep in the heart of southern New Jersey lies an area of some 96,000 acres of sprawling wilderness. It is the famous Wharton Tract which the state of New Jersey purchased in 1954 for a watershed, game preserve, and park. Many people know and love these wooded acres. Each year, people by the thousands visit Batsto Village, once the center of the iron industry that thrived on the tract more than a century ago. With warmth and accuracy, Arthur D. Pierce tells the story of the years when iron was king, and around it rose a rustic feudal economy. There were glass factories, paper mills, cotton mills, and brickmaking establishments. Here, too, were men who made those years exciting: Benedict Arnold and his first step toward treason; Chrales Read, who dreamed of an empire and died in exile; Revolutionary heroes and heroines, privateers, and rogues. The author's vivid pictures of day-to-day life in the old iron communities are based upon careful research. This book proves that the human drama of documented history belies any notion that fiction is stranger than truth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 1965
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780813505145
• ISBN-10: 0813505143
• Artikelnr.: 21875905

Autorenporträt

Pierce, Arthur

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. The "Wharton Estate"
2. The Furnaces in the Forest
3. Empire in Iron: The Story of Charles Read
4. Atsion
5. Quaker Bridge to Washington
6. Ruins by a River: Harrisville
7. Martha Furnace
8. The Martha Furnace Diary
9. Batsto
10. Etna Furnace and Medford Lakes
11. Pleasant Mills
12. The Hundred Years
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Appendix IV
Chapter References
Bibliography
Index