by Henry Beck
Rutgers University Press, 1983
eISBN: 978-0-8135-5638-3 | Paper: 978-0-8135-1016-3
Library of Congress Classification F134.B44 1983
Dewey Decimal Classification 974.99

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Composed, for the most part, from sketches that were published in the Courier-Post newspapers of Camden, New Jersey, Beck provides us with a series of stories of towns too tiny or uncertain for today's maps.  Together, these sketches help to create a more complete picture of the history of New Jersey.  A connecting skein of untold or little known wartime history--the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the conflict of North against South--runs through most of the sketches.  Many of the sketches concern the pine towns and their people, "the pineys" who lived in the Jersey pine barrens.