National Register of Historic Places

WEYMOUTH (schooner)

Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Listed
April 24, 1985
Type
Structure
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
85000874

About this property

Weymouth was a schooner that carried coal on the Great Egg Harbor River. She was built in 1868 as a 60-ton, two-masted schooner by carpenter Samuel Gaskill at what is now Gaskill Park, Mays Landing, New Jersey. She was used to ship charcoal and other goods produced in the Pine Barrens along the Atlantic coast until the early 1890s, when she was left tied to a dock, as was common with retired merchant ships at the time. She came loose from her dock on the Great Egg Harbor River (a local man named Harrison Wilson later claimed to have cut her mooring lines as a child) and ran aground on tidal mud flats about a mile downstream; her owners, lacking the money to move her, abandoned her. Her surviving hulk, the above-water parts of which have mostly been eroded away, is located in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The hulk was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 25, 1985, for its significance in engineering and transportation. The nomination was produced through the efforts of archaeologist Alan Mounier.

Location

Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey

Categories

HISTORIC - NON-ABORIGINALENGINEERINGTRANSPORTATION
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was WEYMOUTH (schooner) listed on the National Register?

WEYMOUTH (schooner) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 1985.

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WEYMOUTH (schooner) is classified as a structure in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for WEYMOUTH (schooner) is recorded as the industrial era.

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