Ghost Town of Friendship ~ Jersey Pine Barrens

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[@hikewithmike4673]

I love the Pine Barrens!

[@imahick5723]

Clearly this was not the season to visit the pine barrens. It's very beautiful and amazingly so untouched. Thanks for taking me along again

[@rikspector]

Cliff, It looks so different there than even a year ago, it looks like the State is fixing up the area arounds the ruins caused by off road vehicles. I was there when a couple of the stone buildings still existed and went into the cellar of one, away from the heat and insects. A Spanish family was "occupying" the other one.. I think I was there in 1970, but I had been there in the sixties along with visits to the Carranza Memorial. Carranza was a fine young pilot with a tragic end, but it's good to know he isn't forgotten. The Memorial has been deteriorating for a long time, but I hope someone is making a effort to preserve it. Please let me know how it is now since it's a long trip from Ferndale,WA to Tabernacle,NJ:) Cheers, Rik Spector

[@spookerr]

I was there yesterday. The state did control burn of grass at site and looks like they tried to excavate a building cellar hole. The one up against the road right up against the bog. It looks to have been an adorable remote village. A shame it was removed. The tiny school house is restored and moved several miles away. I hope they preserve, better yet, re-build this adorable ghost village.

[@kateclark7250]

This was quite a town in its day. Thank you for this adventure. The flies must think you look delicious.

[@markandrews2942]

My grandfather belonged to the Mt.Holly ambulance squad back then and they were among the responders. He took a glass vent window from the site as a souvenir. It was small and he forgot about It till about 1990 and when he unwrapped it it disintegrated in front of us.

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Think maybe you should spray in your hat too. That should help keep flies from your face. Really enjoyed that thanks. Beautiful area. Please stay safe and take care

[@robertvirtue8070]

Cliff try Dryer Sheets, I tuck one my hat and rub on my clothes , it helps. I read a story in Read's Digest about a man that live there in the barrens. As a young boy his friend and he were taught by his friend's Grandfather, a Native American , how to track animals and people. Over the years he was credited many times for finding lost children, Hunters, and asisted Law Enforcement finding criminals and escaped prisoners.

[@debluetailfly]

That would be Tom Brown. He wrote a bunch of books. There are a lot of questions about whether he really did all he claimed.

[@colleenunvarnished]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing and thanks for the tip about the bug spray.

[@shanecollins9617]

Love Ghost towns/ghost tales

[@terryciavola5962]

Interesting! Enjoyed the history! 👍❤️

[@mikesmicroshop4385]

The Cranberry Bogs are about 3/4 of a mile south of the town.

[@superditdit48]

Thanks for braving the flies. :)

[@heden1460]

A plus of living in the desert is that I don't have the bugs like that where I live. Of course, I don't have the greenery that you do that I miss.

[@petemaxwell8046]

I could hear the flies buzzing around the microphone!

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Cliff, those deer flies looked hungry lol. I think it's great that they kept the foundations there undisturbed. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖

[@MillerMeteor74]

I live south of the Mullica River, in Atlantic County. I know Friendship very well. I used to know someone who lived in Friendship as a young child, till the family moved away. I think that was in the late 60s or very early 70. She has a few old photos taken there when she was a child. She lives out of state now though. The big cellar hole/foundation with the guardrail in front of it is from the cranberry packing house. One of the cellar holes closer to the intersection was the general store. Friendship, unfortunately, has been heavily vandalized in the last 15-20 years. Further away from Naomi on the Friendship-Speedwell Road (still in that field) there were a couple more foundations. Also there are many more bogs hidden in the woods around there. Glad to see the Wandering Woodsman finally made it to the Pine Barrens!

[@awadventures6230]

I'm glad you're going to the Carranza Memorial! We went there a few months ago. I've spoken to a few Pineys and they said they do a ceremony around the 13th of July. The Carranza family attends as well!! During the ceremony they go out into the woods with a stetcher and reenact recovering Carranza. If you haven't watched it yet there is a documentary on him, "The Flight of Emilio Carranza".

[@wanderingoutyonder]

Very nice! It is always so wonderful to find these types of areas!

[@aliciamott1396]

Happy fourth to you 💕🌷🍄🍒🍒🍒🌷💕

[@Scorpio45Libra]

I bet Naomi needed a bath after that trip! Another awesome vid!

[@dougyeager6812]

You need to visit the Green Swamp here in Florida. I promise you the gators 🐊 will welcome you with open jaws 🤪

[@abandonedroadside]

You were in my neck of the woods.

[@carolb29]

I've always called those biting flies, deer flies. and oh yea they'll swarm your car before ya even get out.

[@heddingmyway5442]

Awesome video! I have walked through the ruins in Friendship many times during deer season. We once saw a Timber Rattler sunning itself near the Carranza Memorial.

[@raymondclark1785]

There is an old foundation made with handmade bricks just off 571, a well and a newer concrete foundation about 100' away.

[@johnferguson185]

The biggest cellar hole is the packing house . Drive out to Chatsworth and you'll see Alot of active cranberry bogs . I use to live in Tuckerton NJ before moving to Pa. Another neat spot is Harrisville paper mill on route 563

[@superditdit48]

There was a cranberry scare in 1959- scientists found carcinogens in the berries. That may have led to the ghost town.

[@joannegoebel4642]

You should try going to Batsto village great history and interesting.

[@squidgameisaliarisawnosqui5341]

Still watching been following great video........ those roads are nothing for the jeep o yeah ty Steve

[@TinCanTraveler]

I used to run those pine barrens roads with dirtbikes and 4wd since the 90s. So much to see out there

[@googleiscreepynanya5926]

The bugs probably came around 1960 and chased all the cranberry townies away

[@johnferguson185]

Driven them roads many times . You should go see Batsto village .

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

bumpy adventure love it

[@bruinsfan8278]

Hop in your Jeep and Crank the AC ! :-)

[@Julie-ms9ss]

That looks like a different planet ! Thanks for sharing. I like your shirt. 🐻

[@randomisland2872]

Can you please do a vid on Kutztown PA ?. I visited in the 70's at the annual festival and would like to see the area through your lens. 😊

[@debluetailfly]

I have an old brochure about the Kutztown Flax Scutching Festival. Hope they still have it. I never got to go.

[@lynnmor2101]

I wonder if the large building may have been a cannery.

[@irefusetoaskmydoctorifyour6401]

Yeah those God-Awful biting flies just RUIN the 'great outdoors'. When I see them swarming the mirrors of my car I oftentimes end up not even getting out of the car. AWFUL! I'm glad the bug spray helps. I'm looking to purchase one of those bee-keeper type hats with the netting to at least cover my head / face / neck. Seems like little bugs do kamikaze-style hits to my ears, nose / mouth, and eyes when I take a walk out in the woods. I guess they sense where moisture is emanating from. If I can keep 'em out of my face, and the buzzing away from my ears I could at least stay sane, then one could probably wear long sleeve shirt and gloves to keep them off of hands, you'd sweat more but perhaps keep most of the bugs from biting.

[@joseleswopes1400]

It's getting ready to rain here it's thundering now 😎

[@manumuskin]

Did you call them Bayou Flies? their called locally either deer flies or pine flies.We have no bayous here justa lot of criks ditches and brANCHES, At 8'42 you were in the cellar hole of the last lady to live in friendship with her son.She left in 72.I" wasn't going up that way back then I was a kid but an older friend of mine met her.I do remember the electric line still; running into town.Also the large cellar at the ten minute mark was supposedly the post office.You did miss one cellar hole,the school which was near the road further east toward Speedwell but still in the field about ha;lf way down. The Bridge spans Shane Branch of Tulpehocken Crik. You also missed the large granite DeMarco Monument.

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

I called them 'biting' flies.

[@holleyb7861]

Attack of the killer mosquitos

[@raymondclark1785]

The mosquitoes respect deet, the deer flies, not so much :(

[@michaelroucoulet3294]

i,m back cliff!

[@matthewschleicher9419]

The bug world

[@cynthiaarnold5807]

Yuck humidity and bugs not my favorite combo. Ghost towns cool. We go to Asseteque island everytime we go to MD. Beaches. One hot humid yucky day we decide to go to the beach to see the horses. Omg I swear I heard the bugs yell fresh meat when we got out of the car. Charge. It was awful. Horse flies, mosquitoes you name it. Yet people were camping on the other side of the dunes. Now I know why my mom took cans of raid yard spray camping.

[@robhubbs6317]

There’s a castle out there somewhere my dad should me when I was a kid I’m trying to find it do you know we’re it is ? Thank you

[@lotsoffish]

No old photos of the company town?

[@bulldogbrower6732]

While there in the Pine Barrens did you happen to see a gangster Russian hanging in a tree ? Paulie Walnuts and Christopher Moltisanti left him hanging there. Tony Soprano wasn’t happy about them leaving him there.

[@raymondclark1785]

Just off 72 one day while I was out on a bike ride I saw 2 guys next to a Buick down one of the fire trails either stuck or burying something :(

[@michelleulishney9524]

Do those flies still bite when one wears insect spray?

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

The brave ones do..

[@mikecmw8492]

How do handle the tics? Does the deet work?

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

Just check yourself and remove any you find. You can't really stop them.