fortescue history?

[WETDREAM]

Anyone have some reading about the fort history? surfed around and didn't find much. Thanx in advance as always ;)

[Ken Magnin]

I have some memories from 55 yrs ago. My Dad and some friends went to the fort to go fishing on a charter boat and the weather was too bad to go out so we spent the morning in a speakeasy drowning our sorrows. I was 13 yrs old and had to drink soda. WHAT A BUMMER :eek:

[MD]

Max ... I have some history material, but right now, it is loaned out to a friend of mine who is writing a book on the history of Fortescue. I don't know how long it will take him to finish, but I'll be sure to post here when it's complete. He has some fascinating material and has been researching for quite some time now.

[BIGGESTJACK]

THAT IS A BOOK I WOULD READ.

[WETDREAM]

There must be a lot of history to write a book about a place that's only a few blocks long :D Unless it's all about flesh eating insects then it could be a long novel :eek: Looking forward to it.

[Ken Magnin]

Wetdream: Bunky and the boys at the ramp always told me the bugs don,t bite the natives. The more time you spend in the Fort the less you get bit.If you don't live there Skin So Soft Helps. tongue.gif tongue.gif tongue.gif :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[WETDREAM]

We've had a place down there for a few yrs. been fishing there for ~10 yrs. Battling the bugs is second nature now. I always get a kick out of watching the people who come down and aren't prepared for em :D Short tank tops...short cut offs....thin or no haired people holding dock lines and loosing a pint a minute :D

[Hurry Sundown]

iremember when boats were lined up all the way to the beach waiting to put over at bunkys place .and of course all those wooded docks -now concrete.used to have a small net and by running it down the sides of those old wooded docks down about a foot or foot and a half caught all the grass shimp you would need for a day of fishing .history great times of the past.

[windmeup]

Hurruy, that's a good one...but I think the book needs to be at least 25 pages or more? So we write about the speakeasy's & drunks fishing, and how garrison lost everything and the board walk that burned to the ground because of the resturant that had a barge full of coal that out of the blue caught fire? .... end of story... except for... Don't fix the outside of yer house oar dem revenr's will tax you the hell out? just fix the inside! The last few pages may have all them people that built Avalon style homes that now will have to bend over and let the tax man in! :D :D :D

[lost sole]

I took a look at each of the books in my Delaware Bay collection and there?s very little written about Fortescue.

?Guiding Lights of the Delaware River & Bay? by Jim Gowdy and Kim Ruth mentions Fortescue but only because it?s a town close by the Egg Island Lighthouse. "Guiding Lights" also mentions Fortescue is an embarkation point for lighthouse cruise fans. But "Guiding Lights" contains no history of Fortescue.

I did find a diamond in the rough, a couple years ago. It?s ?MAN, THE SEA AND INDUSTRY, A History of Life on the Delaware Bay from 1492 to 1992? by Margaret Louise Mints with Alex Ogden. I purchased it from a dealer in Kansas of all places.

This is a thick paperback, 300 pages long, privately published and loaded with Delaware Bay information and photos. It reads and is formatted kind of like the old ?Whole Earth Catalogue?. Mints interviewed people up and down the bay including commercial and charter captains and gathered a great collection of photographs.

Ten pages of text and photos are devoted to Fortescue. She mentions names of watermen like Shute, Krajewski, Gardinier, Nigley, Burnight etal. Maybe these names ring a bell? She has photos of Captain Rick Warren, Ed Hood at the State Marina, Leslie Moore, Pete Delrossi and Larry Phero. Also a photo of Clifford Higbee with a piece of wood from a mystery boat he discovered in the bay while diving.

The photos themselves are worth the price of the book to me. I think the old bay boats were very pretty; long narrow hulls, upswept bows and houses built aft.

I recommend the book to anyone interested in Delaware Bay history. I haven?t seen this title listed recently on any of the sites I regularly review. Chances are any South Jersey library will have a copy. And Mints lists her address inside the book.

Margaret Louise Mints
And
Alex Ogden, 3rd
28 S. Market Street
Port Norris, NJ 08349-0112

Hope this helps some.

ls

[MISTYLADY2]

Originally posted by lost sole:
I took a look at each of the books in my Delaware Bay collection and there?s very little written about Fortescue.

?Guiding Lights of the Delaware River & Bay? by Jim Gowdy and Kim Ruth mentions Fortescue but only because it?s a town close by the Egg Island Lighthouse. "Guiding Lights" also mentions Fortescue is an embarkation point for lighthouse cruise fans. But "Guiding Lights" contains no history of Fortescue.

I did find a diamond in the rough, a couple years ago. It?s ?MAN, THE SEA AND INDUSTRY, A History of Life on the Delaware Bay from 1492 to 1992? by Margaret Louise Mints with Alex Ogden. I purchased it from a dealer in Kansas of all places.

This is a thick paperback, 300 pages long, privately published and loaded with Delaware Bay information and photos. It reads and is formatted kind of like the old ?Whole Earth Catalogue?. Mints interviewed people up and down the bay including commercial and charter captains and gathered a great collection of photographs.

Ten pages of text and photos are devoted to Fortescue. She mentions names of watermen like Shute, Krajewski, Gardinier, Nigley, Burnight etal. Maybe these names ring a bell? She has photos of Captain Rick Warren, Ed Hood at the State Marina, Leslie Moore, Pete Delrossi and Larry Phero. Also a photo of Clifford Higbee with a piece of wood from a mystery boat he discovered in the bay while diving.

The photos themselves are worth the price of the book to me. I think the old bay boats were very pretty; long narrow hulls, upswept bows and houses built aft.

I recommend the book to anyone interested in Delaware Bay history. I haven?t seen this title listed recently on any of the sites I regularly review. Chances are any South Jersey library will have a copy. And Mints lists her address inside the book.

Margaret Louise Mints
And
Alex Ogden, 3rd
28 S. Market Street
Port Norris, NJ 08349-0112

Hope this helps some.

ls CHECKED THE CAMDENCOUNTY LIBRARY NO GOOD. I WILL TRY CUMBERLAND NEXT. I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE THIS BOOK.

MISTYLADY