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Indian Mills, formerly known as Brotherton, is an unincorporated community located within Shamong Township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [2] It was the site of Brotherton Indian Reservation, the only Indian reservation in New Jersey and the first in America, founded for the Lenni Lenape tribe, some of whom were native to New Jersey's Washington Valley.
Out of these efforts came the establishment of New Jersey's only Indian reservation, Brotherton, in present-day Shamong Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Located only twelve miles from Coaxen, this reservation was an attempt to both satisfy Indian land claims and to transform the native people into yeoman farmers.
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2 )—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
Liberty State Park, Jersey City - 4,431,625 visitors. ... Kittatinny Valley State Park in Newton, New Jersey on a clear day, July 3, 2022. ...
A body was found in a New Jersey state park just days before the holidays. On Sunday, Dec. 22, a body was discovered in an abandoned refrigerator in Belleplain State Forest in northern Cape May ...
The Loantaka Brook Reservation is a nature reserve and public park in the American state of New Jersey in Morris County. It consists of five miles of nature trails for jogging, hiking, and biking. It consists of five miles of nature trails for jogging, hiking, and biking.
They were eventually moved to reservations set up by the US Government. They were first moved to the only Indian Reservation in New Jersey, the Brotherton Reservation in Burlington County, New Jersey (1758–1802). [31] Those who remained survived through attempting to adapt to the dominant culture, becoming farmers and tradesmen. [32]
Congress created the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve, the country's first National Reserve, to protect the area under the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978. The surviving Medford office of Dr. James Still, the 19th century "Black Doctor of the Pines", was purchased for preservation by the State of New Jersey in 2006. Today it is ...