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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
In the pine trees (R) is BEACHWOOD, 49.3 miles, a summer colony.
A century ago it was the terminal of a mule-powered wooden railway that
ran from charcoal-burning pits at Lakehurst to Toms River; stockholders
and mules went back to the plow when the coal mines killed the charcoal
trade. A few traces of the old railway remain.
At 54.7 miles is the junction with a graveled road.
Right on this road is DOUBLE TROUBLE, 3.5 miles, (50 alt.), more a name than
preacher and his wife lived near the dam that forms CEDAR CREEK LAKE. A
colony of muskrats also resided there and about once a week burrowed through the
a community, in the pine and cranberry country. Nearly 100 years ago an old
jam. The parson and his closest neighbors repaired the dam time after time. Once
the muskrats dug through twice in the same week, whereupon the preacher cried
in despair, "Here's double trouble!" The community is active only when the Double
Trouble Cranberry Co. brings in migratory workers during the berry season. Cedar
Creek has the distinction of rising in the vicinity of Mount Misery, flowing through
Double Trouble, and emptying into Barnegat Bay at Good Luck (now Lanoka
Harbor).
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