Old times
Subtitle: country life in Little Egg Harbor fifty years ago
By: Leah Blackman ; [edited by Steve Dodson].
Contributors: Dodson, Steve.
Publisher: Tuckerton Historical Society
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Tuckerton, NJ]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Blackman, Leah, 1817-1886.; Blackman family.; Ocean County (N.J.) -- History, Local.; Little Egg Harbor Region (N.J.) -- History, Local.; Ocean County (N.J.) -- Genealogy.; Little Egg Harbor Region (N.J.) -- Genealogy.
Genres: Genealogy.
Other titles: Leah Blackman's Old times and other writings
Notes: "Many of these manuscripts were published in newspapers of the 1860s and 1880s"--P. [vi]
Table of contents: title: Country homes and how we lived in them fifty years ago; title: Farming and gardening fifty years ago; title: Woman's work fifty years ago; title: Customs of fifty years ago; title: A Linsey-Woolsey dress; title: The country school-houses and schools of fifty years ago; title: The fashions of fifty years ago; title: Social amusements in the country fifty years ago; title: More country customs &c; title: How I got my education; title: Traveling by private conveyance over fifty years ago; title: Traveling to the sea shore of NJ in the olden times, first era, Indian visitors; title: Quakers traveling to the sea shore of Little Egg Harbor in the olden times, second era; title: Traveling to the seashore by stage and train: 3rd era; title: Outlaws of the Pines; title: The attack on Chestnut Neck; title: The War of 1812; title: The war for the Union; title: David Maps; title: History of West Creek; title: Letters; title: A woman historian; title: Statistics, wills, etc.; title: Miscellaneous notes; title: Births and deaths; title: Houses in Old L.E.H.T.