{"id":1874,"date":"2021-09-03T04:45:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2023-09-06T01:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T01:25:31","slug":"batsto-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/batsto-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Batsto Village in the New Jersey Pine Barrens (Jersey Devil?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Batsto Village<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/batstovillage.org\/history\/\">website<\/a>), located in Wharton State Forest in New Jersey, is a preserved and restored village that once manufactured iron and glass. The village contains many well-maintained 19th-century buildings, a museum &#038; gift shop, the Mullica River, and Pine Barrens hiking trails. History &#038; nature &#8212; something for everybody. There&#8217;s also a connection to the Jersey Devil. <\/p>\n<p>Batsto Mansion:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543250_18c8b49d28_c.jpg\" alt=\"Batsto Mansion\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543250_18c8b49d28_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543250_18c8b49d28_c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543250_18c8b49d28_c-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543250_18c8b49d28_c-230x173.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A large sample of the bog iron that was used for iron manufacturing:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560216_937335d54a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Bog Iron\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560216_937335d54a_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560216_937335d54a_c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560216_937335d54a_c-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560216_937335d54a_c-230x173.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mullica River is dammed at the site of the village to power a mill (or two). The Mullica is a favorite of kayakers, but maybe not at this exact location. It was previously known as the Batsto river.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543280_1dc42f55ff_c.jpg\" alt=\"Mullica River\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543280_1dc42f55ff_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543280_1dc42f55ff_c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543280_1dc42f55ff_c-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51417543280_1dc42f55ff_c-230x173.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The nature trails are loaded with opportunities for naturalists and photographers.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560231_f5efde5ff8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Mushroom\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560231_f5efde5ff8_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560231_f5efde5ff8_c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560231_f5efde5ff8_c-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51416560231_f5efde5ff8_c-230x173.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51431327106_0a884b6c44_c.jpg\" alt=\"Batona Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51431327106_0a884b6c44_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51431327106_0a884b6c44_c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51431327106_0a884b6c44_c-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51431327106_0a884b6c44_c-230x173.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batsto Village (website), located in Wharton State Forest in New Jersey, is a preserved and restored village that once manufactured iron and glass. The village contains many well-maintained 19th-century buildings, a museum &#038; gift shop, the Mullica River, and Pine &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[85,64,86],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums","tag-85","tag-new-jersey","tag-pine-barrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}