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Fare To Midlands: Forgotten Towns Of Central New Jersey
Henry Charlton Beck

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

Jersey Genesis: The Story of the Mullica River

3 reviews
Henry Charlton Beck

Rutgers University Press, 1983

Henry Beck's love affair with a river and its people
This is without a doubt the most personal of all of Henry Charlton Beck's books about New Jersey; it is truly a labor of love. Beck loved the Mullica River area of south Jersey ("To me the Mullica is the most wonderful of the unrecognized rivers of America."). He had spent years exploring the region and made many friends there. The book is a slow, sentimental journey up the river, from Barnegat ...

The Jersey Midlands

1 review
Henry Charlton Beck

Rutgers University Press, 1962

Local history of Central New Jersey
Henry Beck was a newspaperman (and minister) who was interested in the local history of New Jersey; he authored many books on the topic. This was his third in a series. (I believe all the books have been in print since they first came out in the 1930s.) The first two volumes dealt with forgotten towns of southern NJ, and for this one he moved a bit north to the central part of the state. The ...

Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey

2 reviews
Henry Charlton Beck

Rutgers University Press, 1983

Northern NJ gets its due
After publishing two books on forgotten towns of southern New Jersey (mainly in the Pine Barrens) and one on the central part of the state, Henry Charlton Beck finally got around to writing a book dealing with the northern part. The word "Tales" enters the title of this work (rather than just "Forgotten Towns" as with the southern NJ books), and rightly so, since much more emphasis on the stories ...

More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey

2 reviews
Henry Charlton Beck

Rutgers University Press, 1993

Another great book about NJ local history
This is Henry Charlton Beck's second book in a series all dealing with local history and lore of various sections of the state. Two of the volumes deal with locations found in southern NJ, and this was published a year (1937) after the first book. It has always remained in print. As in the first volume Beck visits and relates the history of roughly 45 forgotten (there once, now gone) towns ...

The Roads of Home: Lanes and Legends of New Jersey

1 review
Henry Charlton Beck

Rutgers University Press, 1984

Great for fans of Jersey or folklore
Henry Charlton Beck has done historians, folklorists, and folks who love New Jersey a great service with The Roads of Home and the rest of his series of books on old-time New Jersey, told by the folks who lived it. He captures people, places, and events of a New Jersey long since paved over with McMansions and strip malls, in the voices of those who remembered when New Jersey was farms and ...

Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey

6 reviews
Henry Charlton Beck

Rutgers University Press, 1962

A classic on the local history of southern NJ
Henry Charton Beck spent much of his spare time in the 1930s traipsing around the rural areas of New Jersey searching out local history and lore. He wrote about what he learned in newspaper articles and then in full-length books. This book is the first in a series, published in 1936 (always in print since then, but never revised). Beck is concerned with the tiny settlements that grew and died ...