![]() ![]() It is decorated to look like the 1920’s, when Elizabeth lived here. ![]() You can also visit Suningive, which is the house that Elizabeth White lived in. The Historic Whitesbog Village is a great place to visit if you like nature, history, or both! In the Village you can visit the General Store, some of the houses where the workers at the cranberry bog lived, the Barrel Factory, and a Blueberry and Cranberry Museum. In the pinelands, many of the trees are pine trees and the soil is sandy. It is the home for many different types of animals and plants that only live and grow here in the Pinelands. The Pinelands National Reserve is part of the National Park Service covers over one-million acres of farms, forests and wetlands. It is also part of the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve. Byrne State Forest, which is one of the amazing state forests that we have here in New Jersey. The Historic Whitesbog Village is part of Brendan T. In one part of the village you can see the many different types of blueberries that Elizabeth White developed here at Whitesbog. Today, the blueberry is the state fruit of New Jersey. Coville to use different types of blueberries that were growing wild in the area and bred them together to make the first cultivated blueberry bushes in New Jersey. This is a type of blueberry that farmers still grow in many different states today. Whitesbog Village is also famous for being known as the “birthplace of the blueberry.” Elizabeth White, who worked here with her father, grew the first highbush blueberries here in the early 1900s. In the beginning of the 1900’s, Whitesbog was the location of the largest cranberry bog in the state of New Jersey, and cranberries are still grown here today. The cranberries grow on vines and when they are ripe the bog is flooded with water and the cranberries float to the top of the water. I learned that cranberries are grown here in a special type of land called a bog. Do you like cranberries and blueberries? Did you ever wonder where they come from? This winter I got to find out how these berries are grown when I visited the Historic Whitesbog Village in Browns Mills, New Jersey.
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