New Jersey Ghost Town

[West Jersey Detecting]

I shot these about a year ago. It is on the property of what was once known as the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum. There are 7 or 8 structures including homes and the one room school house.

 

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[Montana Jim]

Great pics!

Are you able to detect any place there?

Man, those structures are cool...

 

[steve71]

sweet,would love to stay the night in there.i might feel right at home.mostlikely what would happen.i'd hear a mouse fart and think its a ghost then run out screeming like a little bich.lol cool pics

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Great pics!

Are you able to detect any place there?

Man, those structures are cool...

I tried detecting there back when I took the photos. I found very little except some modern clad. My guess is that it has been pretty hard hit over the years. I do not get up that way much any more, and it is not high on my list, so I doubt I will return soon.

 

[EdleBrock]

Sorry fror just jumping in, but history intrigues me.

Interesting NYT article from 1875 with regards to the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum at Morris Plains.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9403E7DF1038EE3BBC4950DFB566838E669FDE

Here's another from 1885, that references the Asylum at Trenton opening in 1834...possibly two different places ?

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940CE4DE1138E033A25754C2A9679C94649FD7CF

Item no. 5 on this site also references the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum with a founding date of 1848.

http://trentonhistory.org/Buildings/TopTen2007.htm

So, either historical references are incorrect and all point to the same place or there is more than one Lunatic Asylum in New Jersey...hmmmm

 

[davesx]

Hi Neil
They look really good buildings
what a shame they are abandoned.

Dave.