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Wonders of New Jersey: 331 - 340

  • 331 Gingerbread Castle
  • 332 Greystone Originally the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown. The main building is the Second Empire Victorian style Kirkbride Building, which is in danger of being destroyed by government planners in search of property taxes. Some other buildings on the campus have already been wiped off the face of the earth. Parsippany-Troy Hills.
  • 333 Abbott Farm Historic District A National Historic Landmark archeological site and the largest known Middle Woodland village of its type in the eastern United States. Inhabited between 500 bc and 500 ad. Trenton.
  • 334 Feltville A ghost town which used to be a creepy "utopian community" in the mid 1800s. It is located in the Watchung Reservation. The remaining structures are fragile, so it's look but don't touch—except for the restored building that houses the interpretive center. 
  • 335 Stephen Crane
  • 336 Luna Parc This bizarre, brightly colored home/museum has appeared in the New York Times, Extreme Homes, Offbeat America, Ultimate Road Trip and Weird New Jersey. It is owned by artist Ricky Boscarino. Check the Luna Parc website to see when the next open house is.
  • 337 Joseph Bonaparte King of Spain, and before that the King of Naples and Sicily. He was Napoleon Bonaparte's elder brother who was forced into exile when his sibling lost power. He chose the Point Breeze estate in Bordentown as his new home. Unfortunately, there is not much left of Point Breeze anymore.
  • 338 Jersey City Museum Jersey City.
  • 339 The Widow of Mount Holly An anonymous young widow of a doctor who helped "detain" Colonel Carl von Donop from reaching his Hessian comrades in Trenton before George Washington's forces crossed the Delaware River and won the Battle of Trenton. Some people believe that the Widow of Mount Holly was that slut, Betsy Ross. Mount Holly.
  • 340 Crescent Temple Trenton.

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