The birthplace of the Jersey Devil, Leeds Point, NJ
Read: Hey Mother Leeds


"The Jersey Devil is a hoax"
Read: Ballad of Leeds Devil
(Photos, illustrations from
Elk Township NJ web site)

The Mansion of Health, Surf City, NJ
Said to be haunted by the spirits of victims of the wreck of the packet steamer "Powhatan."
Read: The Mansion of Health
(Illustration from Legends of
Long Beach Island, by David J.
Seibold & Charles J. Adams III)

The Indian Cabin Mill Inn, located on Pleasant Mills Road in Nesco. The historic marker in front reads, "Joseph Mulliner, noted Refugee, Tory, outlaw, captured here in 1781. Renamed the Union Hotel, 1861."
Read: Legendary Joe
Mulliner
(Photo from NJ History's Mysteries Monthly
Magazine web site)

Cedar Bridge Tavern
Cedar Bridge, NJ
(just west of Barnegat)
Dare to spend the night at this stagecoach stop!
Read: The Ha'nted Tavern
(Photo from Tides of Time,
compiled by the Ocean County Principals' Council)

"A Sea Serpent Sighted off the Jersey Shore," from the New York World, 1880.
Read: The Serpent of Long Beach Island
(Illustration from Down Barnegat Bay,
A Nor'easter Midnight Reader,
by Robert Jahn)

Lenni-Lenape Indians encounter
the "Half Moon" - 1609
"When some of them saw our
ship approaching afar off, they
did not know what to think but
stood in deep and solemn
amazement, wondering whether
it was a spook or apparition,
and whether it came from
heaven or hell."
Read: Quail Hill
(Illustration from Down Barnegat Bay, A Nor'easter Midnight Reader, by Robert Jahn)

Lenape woman's
wedding dress
Read: Lenape Wedding
Read: Bathsheba
(Illustration from The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes, by M. R. Harrington)

Indian Ann, famous for
her basketmaking skills,
lived in this house in
Shamong Township, NJ
Read: Indian Ann
(Photo from
Pinelands Folklife,
by Rita Zorn Moonsammy, David Steven Cohen, and Lorraine E. Williams, Editors)

Lillian with her
big sister, Edith
Read: Whippoorwill Shoes

Lillian's school photo
Read: Teddy

Lillian Arnold with 5 of her 6
daughters (left to right)
Shirley, Wilma, Mildred,
Bertha, and Lillian
(not pictured, eldest
daughter Edith)
Read: Don't Spill the Beans

One-room schoolhouse,
Waretown, N.J.
Read: Mary's Schooldays
(Photo from the Waretown
Historical Society)

Waretown Railroad Station
Read: Flaggin' Down the Train
(Photo from Ocean Township - The Centennial, history compiled by John O. Beattie
& Lillian Lopez)

The Tuckerton Railroad

Tuckerton Railroad locomotive 6
(Train photos, map, tickets from
The Tuckerton Railroad,
by John Brinckmann)

Tuckerton Railroad tickets

Tuckerton Railroad locomotive 5
Read: The Hobo

Doctor James Still,
"the black doctor with
the gentle remedies."

 

Dr. Still's home and office in Medford, NJ
Read: Doctor James Still
(Photo, illustration from Early Recollections
and Life of Dr. James Still, by James Still)

Thomas Gray, "blacksmith
and teller of tales."

Tom Gray's blacksmith shop in Waretown, NJ.
(Behind the shop is the one-room schoolhouse.)
Read: Village Tom
(Photos from Ocean Township - The Centennial,
history compiled by John O. Beattie & Lillian Lopez)

The Bay Head Life Saving Station - 1889
Read: Life Savers
(Photo from Down Barnegat Bay, A Nor'easter
Midnight Reader, by Robert Jahn)


An early Life-Saving Service crew testing
their boat. (Photo from Down the Jersey Shore,
by Russell Roberts and Rich Youmans)

"August 1, 1896 - Captain William Chadwick
ate 49 clams, drank 6 bottles of beer &
gave 3 cheers for the Hon. William McKinley,
the next President. Captain Bill, although
just under 100 years old,executed a
complicated double shuffle lasting two hours,
to juba time, in a manner that could
not be duplicated by anybody half his age."
From the Chadwick House Register
Read: The Feather-Footed Banty
(Photo from Down Barnegat Bay,
A Nor'easter Midnight Reader,
by Robert Jahn)

Whalers established outposts on the beaches
around Barnegat Bay in the late 1600's.
Read: Aaron the Whalecatcher
(Illustration from Down Barnegat
Bay, A Nor'easter Midnight
Reader, by Robert Jahn)

The raging storm drives the stricken ship
over the bar, as passengers, cargo and
wreckage wash up on the beach.
Read: The Spirit Song
Read: Ship Bottom
(Illustration from Down Barnegat Bay,
A Nor'easter Midnight Reader,
by Robert Jahn)

Home of Captain Reuben F. Randolph
(Militia #5) Manahawkin, NJ
Read: To those Jerseymen of Militia #5
(Photo from Tides of Time,
compiled by the Ocean County
Principals' Council, and edited
in 1939 by children of the county)

Manahawkin Tavern, Manahawkin, NJ
Headquarters of Militia #5
(Photo from Tides of Time,
compiled by the Ocean County
Principals' Council)

Mary Hays McCauly, also
known as Molly Pitcher.
(Below: Monument at the
Molly Pitcher rest area
along the NJ Turnpike.)
Read: Molly Pitcher
(Illustration from Encarta
Encyclopedia online and
photo from Find a Grave
web site)