Bibliography

We have received requests for resource materials pertinent to Forked River Mountains located in Ocean County, New Jersey. There are no publications on the mountains per se as of September 1998. However, we are gathering a collection of stories and essays on a variety of subjects.

Meanwhile, we offer here a basic bibliography which should interest beginners and specialists alike; suggestions for the expanding the list are welcome.

Vertical files in the Ocean County Library system contain numerous articles on the Forked River Mountains. The Ocean County Historical Society, 26 Hadley Avenue, Toms River, New Jersey, lists a number of suggested publications for sale. Besides vertical files, maps and books in the Research Library are available for study. Call (732) 341-1880 for the hours open at the Society Museum.

	Beck, Henry Charlton. 1936. Jersey Genesis. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 304 pp. [Read especially the chapter on Aserdaten which is still much of a mystery and is in part of the Forked River Mountains. Father Beck was a popular writer of folklore. He provided historians with a challenge to research for the facts and in doing so made history popular.]
	Beck, Henry Charlton. 1937. More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, NY. 388 pp. [Read the last chapter on the mysterious Forked River Mountains. While it contains many clues to the roads to get to them, it is better to find a map and a guide who has been there.]
	Berger, Jonathan and Sinton, John. 1985. Water, Earth and Fire: Land Use and Environmental Planning in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 221 pp. [While water, earth, and fire provide the theme, the stories on pinelands culture are worth reading despite the fact the Forked River Mountains are not mentioned by name in the index.]
	Boyd, H.P. 1991. A Field Guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Plexus Publicatons, Medford, NJ. 423 pp. [Anyone interested in the Pine Barrens should own this book for the reference because it contains information on a great variety of subjects from history, to flora and fauna including a fine section on insects. Well worth the price.]
	Brinckman, John H., Jr. 1973. The Tuckerton Railroad: A Chronical of Transportation to the New Jersey Seashore. First Edition, Privately Printed. 209 pp.[Fortunately, a reprint is available. The railroad had a four mile right of way through the huge Lacey Tract in the Forked River Mountains area alone! It opened for business on November 1, 1871, and chugged from Tuckerton to Whiting and back for sixty-four years and three months.]
	Harshberger, J.W. 1916. The Vegetation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Christopher Sower Co., Philadelphia, PA. 329 pp.[Harshberger's book is confusing to the average reader as he most frequently refers to use botanical names for plants. A good way to learn botany is to look up the common names, while not forgetting that the taxonomists change botanical names from time to time. Borrow a modern Gray's Manual of Botany for this labor of love!]
	Kobbe, Gustav. 1970 Reprint. The New Jersey Coast and Pines.Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD. 102 pp. [The first edition in 1889 had smaller print making the book hard to read. The Ocean County Historical Society 1970 reprint is excellent for finding the old sands roads as well as the route of the Tuckerton Railroad.Charming accounts delight the reader.]
	Lloyd, John Bailey. 1990. Six Miles at Sea: A Pictorial History of Long Beach Island, N.J. Down the Shore Publishing, Harvey Cedars, NJ. 172 pp. [Chapter Nine contains a story of seashore hotel guests who went to the Forked River Moutains (c.1910) for a "dig" in the old Native American graveyard (c. 1750). Don't even think about doing this today. In the first place, it is against the law and there is live ammo around from a World War II project. Lloyd is an excellent writer as well as a historian.]
	McCloy, James S. and Miller, Ray, Jr. 1976. The Jersey Devil. The Middle Atlantic Press, Wilmington, DE. 121 pp. [One of the many editions about our popular Jersey beast which haunts the Forked River Mountains as well as many other New Jersey sites. There used to be night hikes in the Forked River Mountains conducted by the Ocean County Parks Department. Hikers had a scary time hunting for the Jersey Devil.]
	McPhee, John. 1967. The Pine Barrens. Random House, New York, NY. 172 pp. [McPhee's book is still a best seller after thirty years because he brought clear positive thinking to bear on the area and its inhabitants. This changed attitudes nationwide towards the Pine Barrens and its people which has far reaching effects to this day. Excellent reading and reliable facts. The Forked River Mountain area was slated for the bulldozer so a city could be built there.]
	Robichard, Beryl and Buell, Murray F. 1973. Vegetation of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 340 pp. [See also Collins, Beryl R. and Anderson, Karl H., 1994. Plant Communities of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 280 pp. Both books will please a wide readership of those interested in plants.]
	Rutherford, William Kenneth and Anna Clay (Zimmerman). 1986. Second Revision. Genealogical History of the Rutherford Family. Vol. I, 791 pp. Vol. II, 1703 pp. [Whether the name is spelled Rutherfurd or Rutherford, the authors published their family history privately. Our interest lies in the offspring of Walter Rutherfurd, brother-in-law of Lord Stirling of Revolutionary War fame. This well-researched book of an affluent colonial family is an aid to explain the complex ownership of the Lacey Tract in the Forked River Mountains before the familty sold it in 1954.]