Harrisville (also called Harrisia or McCartyville[1]) is an unincorporated community and ghost town located about 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of New Gretna within Bass River Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.[2][3]
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Coordinates: 39°39′41″N 74°31′19″W | |
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County | Burlington |
Township | Bass River |
Established | 1795 |
Destroyed | 1914[1] |
Named for | John and Richard Harris[1] |
Elevation | 16 ft (5 m) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
GNIS feature ID | 876972[2] |
The first industry in the area of Harrisville comprised two sawmills on the Oswego River (New Jersey), built in about 1750 and 1760 respectively.[4]: 70–71 In 1795, a mill for splitting logs was built at the present site of Harrisville by Isaac Potts.[4]: 71 This business was not very successful, and about 1815 it was converted to a paper plant,[1] powered by water brought by a canal from a dam on the Oswego River,[4] a tributary of the Wading River. The town which was built around the factory was originally called McCartyville after the factory owner; when the Harris family bought the factory in 1855, the name was changed to Harrisville. Under the Harris family, Harrisville was a company town, with a grist mill, post office, company store, and free tenant homes for the workers of the paper mill. In 1914, a fire started in Harrisville and destroyed the entire town, leaving only ruins. Only the decayed ruins of this town exist today.[1]
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