ID abandoned structures OTHER THAN those in the pine barrens ???

[doxology]

hello...

hiking around the woods of fieldsboro between the town & johnstone training institute...my wife & I came upon an old abandoned factory of some sort...maybe an old dairy plant, from the looks of it. it was located just off the river line (& even had a RR siding that connected w/ the PA-RR there at some past point).

after an exhaustive online search...(which turned up other interesting places in the bordentown region)...but none on the abandoned structure...I had an idea:

is there a discussion forum online anywhere where a member can describe (nj-based) abandoned buildings & post photos...& come up w/ answers (similar to this site...where members do this relative to the pine barrens) ???

any info would be appreciated,

thanks,


dox


btw - coordinates for factory: 40° 8'30.23"N, 74°43'39.16"W (for folks w/ google earth)

 

[Teegate]

I suspect Jerseyman will know.

Guy

 

[Jerseyman]

hello...

hiking around the woods of fieldsboro between the town & johnstone training institute...my wife & I came upon an old abandoned factory of some sort...maybe an old dairy plant, from the looks of it. it was located just off the river line (& even had a RR siding that connected w/ the PA-RR there at some past point).

after an exhaustive online search...(which turned up other interesting places in the bordentown region)...but none on the abandoned structure...I had an idea:

is there a discussion forum online anywhere where a member can describe (nj-based) abandoned buildings & post photos...& come up w/ answers (similar to this site...where members do this relative to the pine barrens) ???

any info would be appreciated,

thanks,
dox

Dox:

The structural skeleton you observed in Fieldsboro dates to 1903, when Charles H. Fennimore, a local Bordentown builder, constructed the building for the Robinson & Fosbrook Chain Works. Prior to moving into this building during 1904, these two partners operated a smaller chain shop a little further downriver, but the press of business caused the operation to seek larger quarters. The building measured 100 feet long by 30 feet wide and featured an office extension on the downriver side and a boiler room and coke room extension on the upriver side. Here is how the building looked in 1908 (the chain works is the building on the extreme left side of the map):

The rectangles you can observe inside the building on the map are forges where artisans would form the links and weld them together to create the chains. The forges burned the coke stored in the coke room mentioned earlier in this post.

After relocating to their new building, Robinson & Fosbrook more formally styled their operation as the “White Hill Chain Works” and continued to operate there for an unspecified period of time, but at least into the 1930s. Subsequently, other chain producers, including the Continental Chain Company, operated the works. Then the Baldt Anchor Company of Chester, Pennsylvania acquired the operation and continued manufacturing anchor chain here until the company moved its operations elswhere during the 1980s, as I recall.

Best regards,
Jerseyman