Farms: Mysterious Abandoned Stone House at Lake Takanassee Long Branch NJ Elberon Ross Lake
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From Weird NJ Article. By Veronica MacDonald Ditko Long Branch, NJ is full of historical treasures if you know where to look. Take, for instance, the small island house in Ross Lake, the western part of Takanassee Lake. This house sits across from Monmouth University off Norwood Avenue in the Elberon section of the town. It’s just the skeleton of a two-room stone house with a fireplace. The land around this part of the lake used to be Woolley Farm and is split down the middle by the Whale Pond Brook. Owen Woolley sold 30 acres of farmland to a Dr. Dennis for $54,000 in 1886, according to The New York Times. Dr. Dennis then sold the property to P. Sanford Ross of Newark, New Jersey 10 years later in 1896. The stones used to build this house are the same as old houses on the grounds of Monmouth University, which is considered part of West Long Branch. However, it was never owned by Monmouth University, or the famous Shadow Lawn estate that preceded the university.
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I went to Monmouth university for college and have a little history. The house was part of the shadow lawn estate that was sold off. If you go on Monmouth university property near the deans house there is a rounded area with steps heading in to the water that leads to the island. The steps are made of the same stone. It was told to my one course that the stone house was a stop for the row boats and a stop for bathers to have a picnic.
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People back then buried there valuables.
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Go back with a metal detector check by them tree's.
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Love your videos, I live in NJ but I'm way up north in Riverdale where route 23 and 287 intersect. Keep up the good work! 👍
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Great stone work. I'm sure it was awesome in days gone by.
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Wow love it! Looks like my ideal home cant understand why no one buys it and lives in it again its truly beautiful
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I would love to explore old abandoned places. Especially old mansions.
It's so uncool to trash a place and deface it with paint. -
you forgot your purse in the kayak.
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Somebody call the geese police!
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This is way cool, I love seeing old structures like this or old ruins from older days gone by, I bet if u came back with a metal detector you might find some old relics within that muddy inside floor!
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If it didn't flood it would be a nice man cave
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that's 1 2 3 4 windows not 3
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Must be more than our geese. Where I walk,same thing but no smell.
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wow something like that should be restored they differently don't build them like they use to that place has stone for a roof nothing will rot I wonder how often it floods there it could be worth it!
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Grew up in Long Branch. Fished those lakes many times as a kid. Always wanted to know what the inside of that house looked like! Thank you! Awesome job!
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Do you have to go across the lake to get there. Or is there a bridge still connected?
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Born and raised in south jersey it's cool to see what is out there in my beloved state.
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Seriously this is adorable
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Beautiful! somebody put alot of work into it.
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the flower thing is an upside down five pointed star. next time bring plenty of salt with you.