The O'Donnell Memorial Park, Atlantic City (Atlantic County)

The World War I Memorial is located in Atlantic City. The memorial was built in 1922. The rotunda houses a 9-foot bronze statue titled Liberty in Distress by Frederick W. MacMonnies. Inside the rotunda there are four medallions (Army, Navy, Marines, and Aviation) that alternate around the circumference of the frieze. The name of the battles in which Atlantic City soldiers fought are inscribed upon the architrave.

 

The Franklin Park Preserve, Chatsworth (Burlington County)

The Franklin Parker Preserve is an 11,379 acre natural preserve located in the Pine Barrens in Chatsworth. The preserve inks Brendan Byrne, Wharton, and Penn State Forests. It is typical of the Pine Barrens with sandy roads, pitch pines, cedar swamps, blueberry fields and tributaries of the Wading River.

 

The Telephone Pole Farm, Chester (Morris County)

This is a telephone pole "farm" in Chester. AT&T created this test site "farm" in the 1920's with varying arboreal species and different protectant methods, standing the test of time, and the lasting effect with woodpeckers and hordes of pocket gophers. The poles also doubled as a training ground as a climbing school for technicians to practice

 

The Sea Girt Lighthouse, Sea Girt (Monmouth County)

The New Jersey Shore between Barnegat and Navesink lighthouses (nearly 40 miles distance) was unlit in the 1800's, and in 1888 the Lighthouse Board requested the funds to establish a light in this area. The original location was to be in Manasquan Inlet, but the site was found to be unsuitable; the present lot was obtained on the beach at Sea Girt near Wreck pond. It was first established in 1896; this was the last shore lighthouse with an integral keeper's residence built on the east coast of the United States. In 1921 Sea Girt Light was equipped with a radio beacon, the first such installation on a shore-based light. The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1955

 

The Van Slyke Castle Ruins, Ringwood (Passaic County)

Van Slyke Castle transitioned through multiple owners until vandals burned the mansion in 1959. William Porter, a stockbroker, built the place in the early 1900's. He named the property "Foxcroft" as it was built on Fox Hill. Porter died in a car crash in 1911 while his wife, Ruth, was traveling home from a European vacation. Ruth later married Warren Van Slyke, an attorney who served as an assistant to the higher naval command of intelligence during WWI. The couple changed the name to "Van Skyle Castle" and used it as a vacation home. Ruth retreated there permanently after Warren passed away in 1925. Ruth died in 1940, leaving the castle without an owner for nine years. It was purchased by a couple who subsequently resold the property 2 years later to Suzanne Christie who later abandoned it. What remains is now part of Ramapo Mountain State Forest in Wanaque.