Showing posts with label Vintage Whitesbog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vintage Whitesbog. Show all posts
Nov 12, 2011
1900 Forest Fire at Hanover Furnace destroys Fourteen Houses.
Nov 11, 2011
Elizabeth C. White inspects cranberries as they are being processed in her father's Cranberry Sorter
The sortng machines would separate the cranberries that could not bounce from those that could. These machines did their work in the cranberry warehouse. Joseph J. White's machine which he patented was probably made at Smithville.
Click Here to see a Cranberry Sorting Machine in action.
Nov 10, 2011
Village of Rome Cookhouse and Barracks at Whitesbog
1930s Era ---- Gone!
The barracks style buildings had a center hall with five rooms on the right and left both downstairs and upstairs. Each room had a small window and several built in bunks. The building was heated with a single wood burning stove.
The small building on the right contained a stove for cooking on rainy days when cranberries were not picked in the bogs. Normally dinner was cooked over camp fires. There were three cookhouses and six barrack style buildings in the Village of Rome.
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Worker's staying in the Village of Florence at Whitesbog
This building had eight housing units, each with a room downstairs and one upstairs reached by a narrow and steep stairway. Each unit had a wood burning stove for heat.
A Ford Model T Truck travels North Whitesbog Road
with barrels of cranberries from the cranberry warehouse and is headed to market. Upton Station just down the road provided access to box cars to ship these berries throughout the United States.
The Whitesbog Village Propagation Complex with Miss White supervising operations.
1923
Propagation beds, greenhouse, power plant with chimney, school house and Cranberry Substation in the background can be identified in the picture.
Unidentified building at Whitesbog
Lewis Hines Photograph, September 28, 1910 ---- Gone!
Title: Gang of older boys working in White's Bog Brown Mills, N.J. Cranberry bogs, a rough gang. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown,. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.
Aerial Photograph of the Village of Rome at Whitesbog
The rectangle that Suningive sits on in this 1930 vintage aerial photograph is the remains of the original Highbush Blueberry Test Field.
Nov 9, 2011
Nov 5, 2011
1930 Aerial view of the Triangle Field at Whitesbog.
The Triangle Field and Blueberry Propagation Area
Nov 4, 2011
Pre 1924 Historic View of Fenwick Bog and Whitesbog Village
In the picture the Old General Store sits where the New General Store circa 1924 is now operating.
Nov 1, 2011
The first section of the Whites Bog Packing House was built in the spot where visitors park their cars today.
The dirt road between the pond and the Packing House
is the road that brings visitors to Whitesbog Today.
Oct 30, 2011
Picking Blueberries in the Triangle Field at Whitesbog -----
Vintage 1923
The birthplace of the domesticated Blueberry is currently being restored by the Whitesbog Preservation Trust. When the restoration is complete Blueberry Festival visitors will be able to pick berries from heirloom highbush blueberries growing in the Triangle Field.
Click Here Taming the Wild Blueberry Chronology
Click Here Taming the Wild Blueberry Chronology
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