WEYMOUTH

NAME: Weymouth COUNTY: Atlantic ROADS: 2WD GRID: 6 CLIMATE: Some snow in winter, not always cold. Summers can be hot and humid. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time.

COMMENTS: Portions of some of the village streets still exist as streets, with a handful of houses total. Located along both sides of County 559, just off U.S. 322, in Hamilton Township. 322 bisects the village site. Surrounded by state and county parkland and wildlife management area land. A map of the old village can be gotten at the township historical society in the county seat, Mays Landing. REMAINS: Methodist church and cemetery (still in use), ruins of two paper mills and the vault from the store, cellar holes of many other buildings.

This was a typical Pine Barrens village built around a bog iron furnace which was in operation starting sometime around 1800. Furnace closed sometime in the 1840s, during the time period when all other bog iron furnaces closed. Two paper mills were subsequently built. When they closed most people moved out, but a handful remained, apparently working elsewhere. The post office was in operation 1806-1819 (as Weymouth Furnace) and 1846-1923 (as Weymouth). Submitted by: Barry Caselli

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