Seen at low tide, its 150-year-old timbers barely visible above the Great Egg Harbor River, the Weymouth doesn’t resemble a great sailing ship.
If motorists driving through this quiet residential neighborhood take notice at all, they’re just as likely to mistake the ruins for the submerged piling of an old dock.
“You either stumble on it or you talk to the right people. Otherwise, you don’t know it’s there,” said Alan Mounier, the Vineland archaeologist who got the wreck listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The designation was met with little fanfare, and no marker
was ever erected despite the Weymouth’s being part of local lore since it was scuttled on the riverbank in the early 1890s.
“So many people who’ve moved here (in recent years) don’t know about it,” said Dottie Kinsey, president of the Township of Hamilton Historical Society.
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If motorists driving through this quiet residential neighborhood take notice at all, they’re just as likely to mistake the ruins for the submerged piling of an old dock.
“You either stumble on it or you talk to the right people. Otherwise, you don’t know it’s there,” said Alan Mounier, the Vineland archaeologist who got the wreck listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The designation was met with little fanfare, and no marker
was ever erected despite the Weymouth’s being part of local lore since it was scuttled on the riverbank in the early 1890s.
“So many people who’ve moved here (in recent years) don’t know about it,” said Dottie Kinsey, president of the Township of Hamilton Historical Society.
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