NJPineBarrens.com: Wilderness of Scrub Oak and Pine will be Transformed into Ordinance Ground


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A year before the United States entered the First World War, the Bethlehem Steel Company quietly purchased vast quantities of land southwest of Mays Landing for building a new proving ground. When the country did declare war, Bethlehem altered its plans and constructed BELCOville, named for the Bethlehem Loading Company. Here is the story of what Bethlehem planned to do with their land along the Great Egg Harbor River during 1916 and how the company already owned the land when it built the shell-loading plant and associated village to house the workers.


 

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 2/7/2010 10:00 AM
Categories: Nature News Links
Tags: BELCOville history scrub oak pinelands pine Bethlehem Steel Company
 

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