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Wonders of New Jersey: 391 - 400

  • 391 Tuckerton Shell Mound A 1500-year-old artificial island made by the Lenni Lenape Indians out of oyster shells. There are now several trees growing on the island, and it is easy to mistake it for a natural formation.
  • 392 This Side of Paradise The debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920, is set in Princeton University during the early 1900s.
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  • 393 Flying Pumpkin Festival  
  • 394 Snowmobile Barn Museum Over 90 years of snowmobiling history. Rare collection of over 300 sleds and thousands of collectibles: toys, ornaments, jewelry, advertisements etc. Fredon.
  • 395 Robbinsville Industrial Track The Camden and Amboy Railroad, chartered in 1830, was the first railroad charted in New Jersey, and only the third to be chartered in the U.S.
  • 396 New Jersey State Ice Cream Festival Toms River
  • 397 Ron-Jon Surf Shop
  • 398 Kingston
  • 399 Deal Lake Stocked with with prized freshwater monsters like Muskellunge and Northern Pike, Deal Lake is just a short stroll away from the salt water of the Atlantic.
  • 400 Beach Haven West An large development of about 4,500 residential and vacation homes on the mainland opposite Long Beach Island. The most striking feature is the 130 lagoons that cut their way through the development. The community was originally meant to be be much larger, but environmental laws prevented expansion. Now the area is mostly surrounded by saltwater marshes and pine barrens.

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