My recurrent theme in this blog has been the ability to connect with place. More importantly, in some sites, the terrain is little changed. In such cases, we are able to "see" what the place looked like to those who walked the ground during the Revolutionary War.
One such place is Cattus Island, near Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey. It is not really an island so much as a peninsula, but it provided coves, such as Mosquito Cove, sheltered from the ocean by the barrier islands off the New Jersey coast.
Here is a view of Mosquito Cove from Cattus Island:
One such place is Cattus Island, near Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey. It is not really an island so much as a peninsula, but it provided coves, such as Mosquito Cove, sheltered from the ocean by the barrier islands off the New Jersey coast.
Here is a view of Mosquito Cove from Cattus Island:
Various sources have identified Timothy Page, of the Page family that settled on Cattus Island, as a privateer who used this area as his base of operations. With a view like this, with no discernible houses or other constructed objects, we can get a feel for what this country looked like.
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