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From the Ocean Emblem and New Jersey Courier January 1, 1861 thru January 3, 1867 Compiled by Larry Barnes DVM, MS & Betty Grant, RN:  This is an alphabetical index to people and events in the Civil War. The people and events reference Ocean, Monmouth, and Burlington County residents found in local newspapers on file at Ocean County Historical Society Research Center.  

The 1987 Fall Tour of The Society For Industrial Archeology:  The booklet provides an overview of the various industries which formed the culture of South Jersey.  The first area covered of the southern part of New Jersey is the coastal area; fishing, oystering, and boat building.  This includes the Atlantic shore and the Delaware Bay, which contain vast reaches of tidal marshes.  The second area of investigation is that part of the outer coastal plain known as the Pine Barrens.  A tract of at least 650,00 acres which supplied the mill seats and raw materials for iron, paper, glass, blueberries, and cranberries.  In addition, the people who followed the bay, who worked the iron plantations; and who in later years became known as “Pineys” are included.  Learn about at least three generations of the William Richards family who helped to create much of South Jersey’s history.  

By William S. Dewey: “Bergen Iron Works” can refer both to the nineteenth century manufacturing concern of that name and to the hamlet in which it was situated.  It is the story of the bog iron industry and forges and furnaces.  The tokens associated with Bergen Iron Works store are a part of the popular series know to numismatists as “Hard Times” tokens or “Jackson Cents”.