Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1
Introduction

Chapter 2
The Biology of Salt Marshes

Chapter 3
Banking/Diking Procedures

Chapter 4
Economics of Land Reclamation

Chapter 5
Salt-Hay Farming

Chapter 6
Meadow Companies

Chapter 7
Cranberries

Chapter 8
Conclusion

Sources Consulted

FROM MARSH TO FARM The Landscape Transformation of Coastal New Jersey

¹One of the main components in the reclaiming of tidal marshes is a bank or dike located on the edge of the marsh. As a result, "banking" and "diking" can be substituted for "reclamation" or "reclaiming."

²Audrey M. Lambert, The Making of the Dutch Landscape: An Historical Geography of the Netherlands (London: Seminar Press, 1971), 81.

³Annual Report of the State Geologist for the Year 1892 (Trenton: John L. Murphy, 1893), 14-15.

⁴W. L. Powers and T. A. H. Teeter, Land Drainage (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1932), 4-6; Lambert, 306-307.

⁵Facts Concerning the Reclamation of Swamp and Marsh Lands by Means of an Iron Dike (New York: Iron Dike and Land Reclamation Company, 1867), 7.

⁶C. A. Weslager, The Swedes and Dutch at New Castle (Wilmington: Middle Atlantic Press, 1987), 179.

⁷Charles T. Gehring, ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch vol. 20-21: Delaware Papers (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977), 86; David Steven Cohen, forthcoming entry in The Encyclopedia of North American Colonies, see "Technology, Dutch," TMs.

⁸David Steven Cohen, The Dutch-American Farm (New York: New York University Press, 1992), 71-72; Cohen, "Technology, Dutch."

⁹Cohen, The Dutch-American Farm, 120. For a more descriptive account of life in the New Netherlands see A Description of the New Netherlands by Adriaen van der Donck, edited by Thomas F. O'Donnell and Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680, edited by Bartlett Burleigh James and J. Franklin Jameson.

¹⁰Cohen, "Technology, Dutch."

¹¹Annual Report of the State Geologist for the Year 1895 (Trenton: John L. Murphy, 1896), xxiii.

¹²D. M. Nesbit, Tide Marshes of the United States, USDA Special Report 7 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1885), 5.

¹³Nesbit, 17-18.

¹⁴Nesbit, 112-120, 124-125.

¹⁵Nesbit, 120-133; Nesbit listed New York with New England in his report.

¹⁶Nesbit, 134-135.

¹⁷Nesbit, 141-142; Facts concerning New Jersey will be discussed at the end of the chapter.

¹⁸Nesbit, 20.

¹⁹Nesbit, 150-162.

²⁰Nesbit, 167.

²¹Nesbit, 162-171.

²²Nesbit, 173-174.

²³Nesbit, 173-179.

²⁴Nesbit, 22-23.

²⁵Nesbit, 180-192.

²⁶Nesbit, 195-200.

²⁷Nesbit, 200-206.

²⁸Nesbit, 206-220.

²⁹Nesbit, 10.

³⁰Nesbit, 137-139.

³¹Nesbit, 136-139.

³²John B. Smith, The New Jersey Salt Marsh and its Improvement, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations Bulletin 207 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1907), 5-6.

³³Nesbit, 139.

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