oldcrowcv63
Tech Sergeant
The quote below is from a colleague of mine (a geomorphologist) with whom I shared this very interesting thread. He has lived in the area his whole life. and is a self-proclaimed South Jersey Piney: is there any other kind? He is also an ethnic Russian (fluent in his family's native tongue) which surprised me when we first met as I was totally unaware of that wave of immigration to South NJ. For an essentially out of the way backwater, Southern New Jersey has an awful lot of significant and interesting history and as archeology and other lines of research will soon attest, that history is a LOT more interesting and a lot further back than anyone imagines.
"The Scots worked with the Swedes in our area as tar kilners, and lived in log cabins. Runaway slaves also adopted cabin building. Coaling was a little known economic engine of the Underground Railway, mostly through the Wilmington circuit of the AME (church I assume). After the Civil War, these local black americans became porters in Atlantic City. Eastern and Southern European settlements sprang up on the abandoned camps, leaving Pinelands towns whitebread-mayonnaise."
Some of the South Jersey local black culture is depicted (probably with typical Hollywood off-the-mark flourish) in HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
"The Scots worked with the Swedes in our area as tar kilners, and lived in log cabins. Runaway slaves also adopted cabin building. Coaling was a little known economic engine of the Underground Railway, mostly through the Wilmington circuit of the AME (church I assume). After the Civil War, these local black americans became porters in Atlantic City. Eastern and Southern European settlements sprang up on the abandoned camps, leaving Pinelands towns whitebread-mayonnaise."
Some of the South Jersey local black culture is depicted (probably with typical Hollywood off-the-mark flourish) in HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
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