The forgotten towns of New Jersey, from Caviar to Mount Misery

Paradise. Mount Misery. Jumbo. Caviar. Paisley and Penny Pot, Timbuctoo, Tumble and Turpentine.

New Jersey’s long-lost towns have faded from maps and memory, but they remain vivid reminders of the state’s lesser-known. sometimes eccentric, history.

Did you know that a Delaware bayshore town was once the world’s largest supplier of caviar? That a hamlet deep in the Pine Barrens was known as Magic City? That Success was a failure?

Let’s take a trip back in time to explore 10 of these forgotten towns, each rich in history and local flavor.

Caviar

Caviar, on the Delaware bayshore, supplied more of the world’s caviar than any other place on Earth in the 1800s. Initially, sturgeon roe was considered worthless except as eel or perch bait or to feed the hogs. In the late 1880s, a German imm