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It was now time to travel to the Atlantic County Park on Rt.50 below Mays Landing to view the Estellville Glass Works, arriving at the site, there is an interpretive sign depicting the Glassworks.
The following is a pic of the remains of the Melting Furnace.
The following two pics are a description of the Melting Furnace and a map of the layout of the Furnace.
Next we viewed the ruins of the Flattening House.
Once again a description of the Flattening House and a map layout.
There were glass fragments all over the paths in the Ruins area, then we went to a lookout area and i shot the following pic.
A pic of old pilings that we found crossing a creek.
Another view from a lookout area.
Then we went to the Ruins of the Pot House.
The following two pics are once again an explanation of the Pot House and the layout of it.
We then went to the site of the Smith-Ireland Cemetery with a tip from Maxwell who we met on the Boardwalk that goes for 2.6 miles from the end of Artesian Wells Road to the Nature Center.
After leaving the Cemetery, we then wanted to view some of the Ruins of the Belcoville World War 1 Munitions Plant. We first spotted in the following pic these cement round objects in the ground covered with Moss, i do not know what they were used for.
The following pic is of one of the structures we viewed in the woods right off of the Nature Trail Boardwalk.
The next pic is of a Ruin on Artesian Wells Road.
Maxwell also stated that in the rear of the Veterans Cemetery that there also was another Cemetery called Steelmans, thanks again for the tip. A descriptive sign at the Cemetery.
A pic of the Cemetery.
We then left the area to return to Rt.50, in back of the Bethlehem Loading Company Sign is the Ruins of the Administration Building. A pic of the sign and the Ruin.
We discussed going to Walker's also called Monroes Forge and Catawba but time did not permit, heading North on Rt.50 through May's Landing and then Rt.559 we decided to stop at the Old Meeting House and Cemetery in Weymouth, a pic of the Meeting House.
A view of the Cemetery, notice in the foreground the wooden grave markers.
A pic of another grave marker.
We then left the area crossing Rt.322 stopping shortly at the Weymouth Ruins. The first pic is of an descriptive sign of the place.
The first Ruin that we saw.
The second is of an Archway and Chimney Stack.
The third pic is of another Ruin abutting Rt.559.
And the fourth and final pic of the Weymouth Ruins is of a Ruin with Spring Water flowing out of it, the sign said do not drink, the Spring Water Ruin at the end of Arteasian Wells Road in Belcoville had no such sign.
I was now time to call it a day, refreshment time in Tabernacle were awaiting us, it was a great day minus some ticks at Etna and Belcoville, i paid $1.55 for a gallon of gas, stopped at a lot of places that i passed by in the 1970's to go to Cape May to fish in Delaware Bay, but i still need to view Catawba and Walker's Forge, that's for another time.
Jim
It was now time to travel to the Atlantic County Park on Rt.50 below Mays Landing to view the Estellville Glass Works, arriving at the site, there is an interpretive sign depicting the Glassworks.
The following is a pic of the remains of the Melting Furnace.
The following two pics are a description of the Melting Furnace and a map of the layout of the Furnace.
Next we viewed the ruins of the Flattening House.
Once again a description of the Flattening House and a map layout.
There were glass fragments all over the paths in the Ruins area, then we went to a lookout area and i shot the following pic.
A pic of old pilings that we found crossing a creek.
Another view from a lookout area.
Then we went to the Ruins of the Pot House.
The following two pics are once again an explanation of the Pot House and the layout of it.
We then went to the site of the Smith-Ireland Cemetery with a tip from Maxwell who we met on the Boardwalk that goes for 2.6 miles from the end of Artesian Wells Road to the Nature Center.
After leaving the Cemetery, we then wanted to view some of the Ruins of the Belcoville World War 1 Munitions Plant. We first spotted in the following pic these cement round objects in the ground covered with Moss, i do not know what they were used for.
The following pic is of one of the structures we viewed in the woods right off of the Nature Trail Boardwalk.
The next pic is of a Ruin on Artesian Wells Road.
Maxwell also stated that in the rear of the Veterans Cemetery that there also was another Cemetery called Steelmans, thanks again for the tip. A descriptive sign at the Cemetery.
A pic of the Cemetery.
We then left the area to return to Rt.50, in back of the Bethlehem Loading Company Sign is the Ruins of the Administration Building. A pic of the sign and the Ruin.
We discussed going to Walker's also called Monroes Forge and Catawba but time did not permit, heading North on Rt.50 through May's Landing and then Rt.559 we decided to stop at the Old Meeting House and Cemetery in Weymouth, a pic of the Meeting House.
A view of the Cemetery, notice in the foreground the wooden grave markers.
A pic of another grave marker.
We then left the area crossing Rt.322 stopping shortly at the Weymouth Ruins. The first pic is of an descriptive sign of the place.
The first Ruin that we saw.
The second is of an Archway and Chimney Stack.
The third pic is of another Ruin abutting Rt.559.
And the fourth and final pic of the Weymouth Ruins is of a Ruin with Spring Water flowing out of it, the sign said do not drink, the Spring Water Ruin at the end of Arteasian Wells Road in Belcoville had no such sign.
I was now time to call it a day, refreshment time in Tabernacle were awaiting us, it was a great day minus some ticks at Etna and Belcoville, i paid $1.55 for a gallon of gas, stopped at a lot of places that i passed by in the 1970's to go to Cape May to fish in Delaware Bay, but i still need to view Catawba and Walker's Forge, that's for another time.
Jim
