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In this video we visit Allaire State Park, located in Wall Township, NJ, is home to the Historic Village at Allaire, a former 19th-century bog iron industrial town. Founded by James P. Allaire in 1822 as the "Howell Works," it was a bustling, self-sufficient community producing iron for New York steamships before declining in the 1840s and becoming a preserved state park in 1947.
There is plenty of parking and lots of paved and packed dirt trails.
Key Historical Details
• Industrial Origin (1820s-1830s): James P. Allaire purchased the existing site, known as the Monmouth Furnace, to secure raw materials for his Manhattan-based marine engine works.
• The Village (1836): At its peak, the community boasted over 400 residents and included a blacksmith shop, carpentry shop, general store, church, and school. It was a self-contained, planned industrial community.
• Economic Decline: Following an economic depression in 1837 and the depletion of local bog iron, the furnaces were extinguished in 1848, turning the bustling, productive town into a "deserted village".
• Preservation (20th Century): Newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane bought the property in the early 1900s, later donating it to the state of New Jersey in the 1940s to preserve its unique history.
• Modern Day: Today, the site operates as a non-profit living history museum, featuring 13 original, restored 19th-century buildings.