Weymouth (schooner)

United States historic place

Weymouth

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

New Jersey Register of Historic Places

Nearest city| Hamilton Township, New Jersey
Built| 1860
Architect| Samuel Gaskill
NRHP reference No.| 85000874[1]
NJRHP No.| 342[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP| April 25, 1985
Designated NJRHP| March 12, 1985

Weymouth was a schooner that carried coal on the Great Egg Harbor River. She was built in 1868 as a 60-ton, two-masted schooner by carpenter Samuel Gaskill at what is now Gaskill Park, Mays Landing, New Jersey. She was used to ship charcoal and other goods produced in the Pine Barrens along the Atlantic coast until the early 1890s, when she was left tied to a dock, as was common with retired merchant ships at the time. She came loose from her dock on the Great Egg Harbor River (a local man named Harrison Wilson later claimed to have cut her mooring lines as a child) and ran aground on tidal mud flats about a mile downstream; her owners, lacking the money to move her, abandoned her.[3]

Her surviving hulk, the above-water parts of which have mostly been eroded away, is located in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.[3] The hulk was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 25, 1985, for its significance in engineering and transportation.[1] The nomination was produced through the efforts of archaeologist Alan Mounier.[3]

## See also

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* National Register of Historic Places listings in Atlantic County, New Jersey

## References

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1. ^ a b "National Register Information System – (#85000874)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Atlantic County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection \- Historic Preservation Office. January 10, 2010. p. 12. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
3. ^ a b c McKelvey, Wallace (December 24, 2012) [last updated September 21, 2019]. "Historic shipwreck in Mays Landing draws little attention today". Press of Atlantic City. Archived from the original on October 9, 2021.

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* Atlantic City Convention Hall
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* Bay Front Historic District
* Bethlehem Loading Company Mays Landing Plant Archeological Historic District
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* Church of the Ascension
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* Head of the River Church
* Jacobus Evangelical Lutheran Church
* Mays Landing Presbyterian Church
* St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church

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* Capt. Francis Babcock House
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* Jeremiah II or Edward Risley House
* Somers Mansion

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* Neutral Water Health Resort Sanitarium

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* Absecon Lighthouse
* Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker
* Robert J. Walker
* Weymouth
* Weymouth Road Bridge
* World War I Memorial

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Atlantic County, New Jersey and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey
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