Cedar Bridge?

[LBI Surf]

Hello all, I've just come across this forum, and am very excited to have found it. I love exploring the Pine Barrens.
A few years back, I read "The Pine Barrens" by John McPhee, and recall reading about a bridge in a cedar water river built on top of an old shipwreck, or something along those lines. I don't have the book handy, so I am unable to look up a more detailed account of it. Does anybody know what I'm talking about, if the bridge still exists, and if so, where to find it? Thanks!

 

[Bog]

I don't recall anything about a bridge or shipwreck. There was a reference to a cranberry bog dam at Penny Pot being made of teak from a british vessel .

 

[LBI Surf]

That's probably what I'm thinking of. I guess I am just making things up since it's been a while since I read the book. I knew it was something built on top of or out of a boat. Do you happen to know where it is?

 

[uh60chick]

"There is a dam at Penny Pot, on the Great Egg Harbor River, that was made from salvaged ship timbers. It was built to be nothing more than a cranberry dam, but it has in it seventy-five thousand dollars' worth of teak."

 

[Bog]

That's probably what I'm thinking of. I guess I am just making things up since it's been a while since I read the book. I knew it was something built on top of or out of a boat. Do you happen to know where it is?

There's a reference in this article. If it's correct, the dam is alongside the Black Horse Pike in Folsom. You can Google Penny Pot,NJ for a map.

www.njpinelandsanddownjersey.com/op...ntManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=125

 

[Bog]

Picture of dam.


http://njpinelandsanddownjersey.com/photos/Penny-Pot/pp3

 

[noboat]

There is a bar made from a boat at the oyster creek inn.