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    Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks
    Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks
    Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks
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    Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks

    By Peter Osborne

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    Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks recounts the history of two beautiful natural sanctuaries at the southwestern end of New Jersey s Highlands. Managed as a single unit by the state park service, the two parks are Hacklebarney, 977 acres along the Black River corridor, and Voorhees, 640 acres of gently rolling farmland. Their stories are similar: both parks were created in the 1920s on privately donated land and were developed by the federally operated Civilian Conservation Corps. With more than two hundred unique photographs, many published here for the first time, Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks shows life at the CCC camps, the building of trails and roads by hand, and the repair of forests.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateOct 13, 2004
    ISBN9781439615935
    Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks
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    Peter Osborne

    Dr. Peter Osborne is the clinical director of Town Center Wellness in Sugar Land, Texas. He is a doctor of chiropractic medicine and a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist focused on the holistic natural treatment of chronic degenerative diseases with a primary focus on gluten sensitivity and food allergies. Dr. Osborne lectures nationally to doctors on gluten sensitivity/intolerance, celiac disease, and many other nutritionally related topics. He is the cofounder of Nutra-MD and the Gluten Free Society.

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      Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks - Peter Osborne

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      INTRODUCTION

      This is a book about two important developments in New Jersey’s history: first, the creation and history of two of its popular state parks, Voorhees and Hacklebarney, and second, the largest national conservation movement ever undertaken in the United States. The creation of Voorhees and Hacklebarney State Parks was part of a national movement from 1910 to 1940 that has been called the golden age of parks. It was a time when many local, county, state, and national parks and forests were established and developed all across the country. The creation of both Voorhees and Hacklebarney State Parks was the result of a combination of acts of generosity, grand design work, beautiful vistas, scenic places, and the fruition of a president’s and a youth work program’s vision—a vision whose legacy still lives on, some 70 years later.

      The 1920s witnessed several other major developments that came together as Americans yearned for open spaces, due to the increased urbanization taking place across the land. Automobiles were becoming available to the average American, and as a result, Americans began a great love affair with the road. The Boy Scout and Girl Scout movements, established in 1910 and 1912, respectively, blossomed and needed places to conduct outdoor programs. During this era both organizations grew rapidly and flourished.

      In this same time period, a huge, unprecedented conservation effort was begun by the United States, the likes of which has never been undertaken since. As part of that effort, some 1,000 young men worked at Voorhees and Hacklebarney from 1933 to 1941, in a federal agency known as the Civilian Conservation Corps. The Depression-era CCC was the brainchild of one of the 20th century’s leading figures, Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The agency had two goals: to give jobs to unemployed young men between the ages of 17 and 24, as well as to veterans of World War I, and to undertake thousands of conservation projects across the nation in parks, in forests, and at historic sites.

      When the CCC boys arrived at Voorhees in 1933, they found three relatively undeveloped parcels of land. They worked under the supervision of the National Park Service and the U.S. Army, and by the time they were finished eight years later, they had built the present-day road systems, shelters, latrines, visitor amenities, and trail systems and had developed major public access areas that still remain, although some are used in different ways today. The CCC’s work remains the single greatest conservation effort ever undertaken at either Voorhees or Hacklebarney. Some of the projects have fallen into disrepair or are gone, like the extensive water system installed at Hacklebarney and two of the picnic pavilions that were once located in Voorhees, but the parks we enjoy today are largely the result of their efforts.

      Since the end of the CCC, the parks have continued on with their mission, and the state has regularly upgraded facilities at both locations. Today, more than 100,000 visitors come to each of the parks annually. Because of generous neighboring landowners and the Green Acres program, the parks have grown in size. Voorhees has more than doubled its original size and is now 640 acres. Two other satellite properties totalling 402 acres have recently been acquired. Hacklebarney began as a 32-acre parcel and now encompasses 977 acres.

      The two parks are still jewels in the crown of the park system, particularly for the region’s residents. Voorhees and Hacklebarney, however, like all of the state’s parks and forests, have had budgets cut in a way that continues to hurt them and us—the parks’ owners and users. A good example of this occurred in 1981, some 46 years after the donation of lands that created Hacklebarney, when there was serious consideration given to closing the park because of a budget crisis. One of the purposes of this book is to encourage elected officials and government leaders to fund parks and forests in a more adequate fashion and to impress upon those leaders the parks’ importance to the people of New Jersey.

      It is also worth remembering the many people who have made the parks possible, including the landowners who gave land directly to the state, sold it, deeded it through the Green Acres program or, in several cases, had property taken by condemnation. For Voorhees State Park they include Foster M. Voorhees, Dora Deutsch, Ellis Anderson, Arthur Lance, Lewis Lance, Addie Lance, and Nancy Lance, Bessie Anderson, Wallace Morris, Joan and Edwin Wack, Fritz Blum and Hans Peyer, Celeste Barnes, Gladys Smith, Jean and Frank Valinski, Evelyn and Harold Brynildsen, the Estate of L. Kielb and F. Biggs, Janet and Larry Berkey, Jan Willoughby, Mary Sekela and various Sekela family members, R. Scott and Karen Conant, Ava Herzog and Elsie Sutton, Richard Pfauth, Marbow Manor, Kathy and Harry Creveling, George Dorsey, Hannah Fitzpatrick, Joann and Albert Cutter, September Farms, and the Herson Family Trust. For Hacklebarney they are Adolphe and Sarah Borie, Annette and James Hildebrant, Lloyd Hildebrant, Jane and Chester Burley, Marion and Nicholas Dawson, Sterling Security Corporation-Bassett Foundation, Marion and Frank Kopp, Anita Merle-Knight Smith, Vernon Hoffman, Elizabeth and Richard Morash, Olivia and Wayne Nordberg, W. J. B. Contractors, Brady Security & Realty, Black River Fish & Game Club, and James and Augustus Knight.

      We tip our hats to Pres. Franklin Roosevelt, to the federal agencies that coordinated the CCC effort, and to the hard work and dedication of the CCC boys. We remember the members of the Youth Conservation Corps and Young Adult Conservation Corps and the many men and women of the Division of Parks and Forestry who have worked at both parks over the years. They are too numerous to mention by name, but their hard work has maintained and preserved the parks for the people. Finally, we acknowledge the people of New Jersey, who provide the funding for the operations of the state’s parks and forests.

      As you read this book, you will also see that the need for a program similar to the CCC still exists, not only for the benefit of our youth but also for our parks and forests, which need the loving care, maintenance, and nurturing the CCC

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