Mysterious Abandoned Stone House at Lake Takanassee Long Branch NJ Elberon Ross Lake

[@winross62]

This is part of my great grandfathers estate, P. Sanford Ross. It was called Takanna Farms. He had the lake dredged and built the island with the stone house on it.

[@caryulmer5578]

Win Ross Can you tell us more about it?

[@dawnbreak3299]

@@caryulmer5578 The land around this part of the lake used to be Woolley Farm and is split down the middle by the Whale Pond Brook. Owen Woolley sold 30 acres of farmland to a Dr. Dennis for $54,000 in 1886, according to The New York Times. Dr. Dennis then sold the property to P. Sanford Ross(win's great grandfather) of Newark, New Jersey 10 years later in 1896.

[@dawnbreak3299]

Your great grandfather was quite the man with quite the stories! Did your family speak much of him? My grandparents built a huge house like this...two stories...beautiful.... in egg harbor township nj and some idiots burned it down somehow!! I couldnt believe it. I have one single photo.

[@caryulmer7063]

Dawn break Thank you! That's such an interesting area.

[@FlatironBetty]

That is so cool! My mother used to push me in a baby carriage nearby. My father's family had a farm a few blocks in where The Windmill is now on Ocean Ave where they built all the condos.

[@human1time]

I enjoy watching your exploration of old structures. You seem to have an appreciation of the skills of the builders and materials used. I am much older than you and my father was a carpenter. I think we share that appreciation.

[@FrankieTheJet]

Grew up in Long Branch. Fished those lakes many times as a kid. Always wanted to know what the inside of that house looked like! Thank you! Awesome job!

[@julierobinson1523]

Absolutely beautiful! I really hope it isn't left to run into disrepair. it looks like a nice neighbourhood. Thanks for sharing!

[@bigmort6916]

Wow love it! Looks like my ideal home cant understand why no one buys it and lives in it again its truly beautiful

[@RodeoRides]

Born and raised in south jersey it's cool to see what is out there in my beloved state.

[@paulaberweiler2403]

I went to Monmouth university for college and have a little history. The house was part of the shadow lawn estate that was sold off. If you go on Monmouth university property near the deans house there is a rounded area with steps heading in to the water that leads to the island. The steps are made of the same stone. It was told to my one course that the stone house was a stop for the row boats and a stop for bathers to have a picnic.

[@tommcconville677]

I went to Monmouth University, then known as Monmouth College 1968 to 1970, and I never knew this place existed. I know Norwood Ave. pretty well, since we drove that down into Deal and Allenhurst to Asbury Park.

[@shirleyharrison2580]

That's awesome ! Loved the video. Thanks for sharing.

[@lorisanford8515]

I would love to be able to fix it all up and live there !!! Its so beautiful !!! 💝💝💝 Thank you for sharing 😊

[@RJCooper2]

Thanks for trudging through the unpleasantness to bring us a great walkthrough view of this remarkable structure. Whoever built it certainly was a craftsman. They show us what is possible with only naturally available materials, plus mortar and probably lime. The weight of the stone probably sunk or compressed the entire site over a century ; explaining the high water content inside. It would be nice to know how it looked after it was first completed. It seems like the university you mentioned would want to make it a student project to restore it and celebrate the historical early americana aspects of this extremely rare dwelling. Is it possible that one of the builders of the school made this his own home?

[@nancygreen8186]

The Green Family Burying Ground, Long Branch (from the Book of the Dead of Monmouth) This was originally the Chamberlain burial plot and lay north of Whale Pond (now Takanassee Lake), in Long Branch. May 21, 1743, John Chamberlain and his wife, Rebecca, deeded to Henry Green 360 ¾ acres, from Whale Pond northward to a line above the site of the famous hotel known as "Howland’s" and from the sea to the Deal and Long Branch Turnpike. Of this tract, three rods square, the Chamberlain family burial plot, was reserved. Long ago the spot became too valuable to be wasted on its deceased original owner, and the stones were removed to the M.E. Churchyard at mechanicsville, now West Long Branch.

[@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures]

Thank you for sharing this info

[@yvonnespears102]

I'm 72 years old and when I was a little girl, my cousin Andi used to play in this little stone house. Lived in a big house near the lake, and couldn't remember the street our house was on. It was still a dirt road that led to a small train station. I was thinking about taking a road trip to find that little stone house. You have to be careful because the little island it sits on is filled with poison oak

[@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures]

Thank you for sharing that

[@samanthab1923]

That was the old Elberon RR Station

[@AlexGulinoHouli]

I love to explore unknown parts of NJ, so your videos are so enjoyable! keep up the great work! (maybe I'll even take my bike out of storage one day! lol)

[@AlexGulinoHouli]

NJ Outdoors Looks like someone swiped your video!!

[@jan7240]

What a quaint little place, thanks for taking the trouble to go over there and capture it 👍☺

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Not really habitable, though I don't think it was ever intended to be. No one would go to the trouble of putting in so many windows, or creating such awkward doorways. So difficult to seal any of them. Was it just a summer campout house, a novelty thing, or just a place for picnics, or children to play? Looks more like a bit of a novelty than anything actually intended to be lived in. Very nice all the same. Thanks for posting.

[@9SecondStreetMustang]

Love your videos, I live in NJ but I'm way up north in Riverdale where route 23 and 287 intersect. Keep up the good work! 👍

[@TRAVELWP]

Excellent Video !!!

[@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures]

Thank you

[@patriciavincent9832]

As I can no longer go out and explore, let me thank you for sharing this, was awesome! p.s. thank you for keeping a decent dialog, I'll keep your subscription.

[@zombiecow1909]

there is an abandoned house off of Five Points Road in Colts Neck. pretty well hidden off the road. but if you're coming from 537 it would be on the left before you go over Route 18. there is the high school on the corner of 537 and five point and a couple houses behind it then an open field then a giant house then some Woods, it's in that Woods. Would love for you to explore that one. there are Green Acres behind it I suppose if you trekked long enough through the woods you could get to it.

[@Bflatblues55]

Great video... I love your explorations and adventures! I found myself looking (searching) for the anomoly at 1:36 as mentinoed in your discussion panel. Wish I could have found it. I rewound several times and I'm not a stranger to spotting such things. All I noticed was what appeared to be a large snapping turtle sunning itself across the water around that footage. But I did see something creepy-ish. I dismissed it shortly after as tarp. At 10:29 you are talking about the square footage of the place and I spot what I swore to be a woman's high heeled shoe sticking out of the tarp. I feared there may have been remains underneath but I'd prefer not to go there. :) I think it was just tarp wrinkles.

[@Cause2b]

So I'm NOT familiar with seeing things my mind doesn't understand. The anomaly, at 1:32 or 1:36, is like a shadow, or a swarm of nats. It is a dark-ish, shadow, just above the grass, across the stream, on the right hand side of the screen. It's very breif. Probably just the geese, well a goose, over head blocking the sunlight in that spot, or something.

[@keansburgbabe]

That video was great. Lived in Jersey all my life hungout in Long Branch and never knew it was there. I wish there was something in Middletown thats abandoned. Thats were me and my brother Pete grew up. Well we got the Spy House in Port Monmouth. i wish there was something here in Keansburg abandoned that can be explored. That would be cool. Thats were me and my family live now.

[@keansburgbabe]

Did ya ever hear of the Spy House in Port Monmouth? Thats abandoned. Maybe you can check that one day. I used to go in there all the time when it was open.

[@debrandw246]

Georgeous. Thank you

[@29jaydee]

That's my hometown. Don't live there anymore but I go back for fishing frequently. My sister still lives a block away from that location.

[@vinnyc365]

This is awesome .

[@rysaj1]

what a cool structure

[@minervahernandez8793]

It's so beautiful .I wish they let me live there with my son.its so peacefully to live in a place like that.

[@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures]

Thank you for watching

[@NewBeginningswithBudhiandCyndi]

That is a beautiful little structure, it is asham they haven't done something with it.

[@tammyvance8620]

That’s a really cool structure!

[@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures]

Yes I love it

[@deploribusunum3894]

Beautiful! Thank you!

[@joeestes8114]

Beautiful! somebody put alot of work into it.

[@sherrivonch1705]

Seriously this is adorable

[@deanastevenson5078]

Great stone work. I'm sure it was awesome in days gone by.

[@nickmarkis]

wow something like that should be restored they differently don't build them like they use to that place has stone for a roof nothing will rot I wonder how often it floods there it could be worth it!

[@moonbeam537]

I would love to explore old abandoned places. Especially old mansions. It's so uncool to trash a place and deface it with paint.

[@Jason_Phillips3679]

This is way cool, I love seeing old structures like this or old ruins from older days gone by, I bet if u came back with a metal detector you might find some old relics within that muddy inside floor!

[@Jason_Phillips3679]

***** if you do make sure you record the video

[@dalenj47]

I lived on vancourt ave back in the late 50s early 60s we would build a bridge to the island and play in that stone house. And we had a raft in the lake to get to it too.

[@johnprice8805]

cool stone house thanks for showing us

[@PrairieDodgers]

That was interesting.....

[@frostyhighway9011]

Yeah right, it's all so interesting nobody has claimed the property and start living there.

[@speedracer6647]

It should be restored and turned into a little air b&b rental just to generate income and preserve the structure.

[@ameliavogt89]

Do you have to go across the lake to get there. Or is there a bridge still connected?

[@pigoff123]

it is a shame that it wasn't restored

[@BTSarmyexpat]

St John Virgin Islands has similar structures built in 1800's call sugar mills. this is a cool find. should be preserved by college.

[@merehitt1]

How did you find out about it?

[@mrmonstre5]

weirdnj.com/stories/abandoned/long-branch-stone-house/ Take a look at the article above.

[@rhondaholland4188]

this. video is great. what almost work of the built it,s great that it,s lasted all is time. undamaged not mark up

[@starrvalley12]

People back then buried there valuables.

[@MrLouisajr]

The Lake by this house was dredged since you where there, so he water may be deeper.

[@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures]

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[@dawnbreak3299]

Great video. You sound like Jerry Seinfeld....

[@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures]

Ha

[@77huss]

Somebody call the geese police!

[@gavinmcvey8177]

Rebuild it before it falls apart

[@garyenwards1608]

that's 1 2 3 4 windows not 3

[@9SecondStreetMustang]

Haha knew someone would catch that lol

[@monicaregina82]

DO YOU HOULD THIS HOUSE!!!!!

[@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures]

I am not staying or living there

[@lillianballard4422]

Must be more than our geese. Where I walk,same thing but no smell.

[@ammir3958]

7:54 - Is that a face (wolf?) in the stone or am I just tired?

[@connorc2221]

thats wild now that you bring it up that does look like a wolf

[@jeffcapshaw]

you forgot your purse in the kayak.

[@CloudDog1113]

Lake Tak LB Drying Up Dredging Never Happened Only Franklin Lake in WLB

[@savedandblessedvance1602]

very cool !!!!! thanks , hope you got all the poop off =)

[@savedandblessedvance1602]

+NJ Outdoors (Outdoor Adventures) WOW NOW THAT'S A LOT OF POOP ! =● wonder where all the birds were?

[@starrvalley12]

Go back with a metal detector check by them tree's.

[@Sethemiah]

the flower thing is an upside down five pointed star. next time bring plenty of salt with you.

[@dawnbreak3299]

😂

[@solaparati9564]

nice... looks like a witches den

[@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures]

True.

[@valenciafouther5933]

ESAU YOU LOVE TO BE IN THE WOODS..A FUGITIVE AND A VAGABOND...THUS SAITH THE LORD

[@eternaldarkness6]

poop island?