Historic Whitesbog Village

Whitesbog Village is the site of the largest NJ cranberry farm in the early 1900’s and the location where highbush blueberries were first successfully cultivated. The village, built between 1890 and 1925, was a self-sufficient hub, with worker housing, a general store, pay office, processing and storage buildings, and a schoolhouse. Its survival owes much to Joseph’s daughter, Elizabeth Coleman White-farmer, naturalist, and entrepreneur-whose idea it was to develop a cultivated blueberry plant and grow the berries on the property. Take the Whitesbog’s self-guided tour which will take along the Old Bog Trail, a short nature trail, which traverses the edge of a lake and runs through an old cranberry bog.