The New Jersey Pine Barrens are extensive and mysterious. Within the 1.1 million acres are rare animals and plants that are found nowhere else. And there are towns that have disappeared with only cellar holes, sandstone “rocks” and glass slag to indicate this was once a thriving community.

On Saturday, Nov. 20, the Tuckerton Historical Society hosted the program “Forgotten Towns of the Pinelands”” by Chief Naturalist German Georgieff of the Ocean County Department of Parks and Recreation to give…