Mount Misery

Mount Misery Mount Misery

Mt. Misery is located on the border of Woodland and Pemberton Townships in Burlington County. If you took Rattler Road south from Route 70, that seems to be the closest street of any kind near it.

A visitor to this page, Jedd, has this to say about the location of Mt. Misery:

If you follow the road off of Rt. 70, it will bring you back to a Methodist retreat center. After the road passes there it brings you into Lebanon State Forrest. The first right after you come off 70 and before you come to the reatreat center, it should be Pitman Rd. There is a sign, and this will bring you back to a clearing in the woods with a big hole in the middle in the wood edge off to the right there will be what appears to be old foundations-- some you know are most definitley foundations.

The New Jersey Courier of 26 Mar 1920 reported that Charles W. Pitman of Mt. Misery died, age 66, so there were evidently actual residents of the place at one point.

This link has a tidbit of info about Mt. Misery.

This link has a story about a camping trip someone took to near Mt. Misery in the 1970s.

This link has some photos of other camping trips taken at Mt Misery.

For info on what goes on at Mt. Misery today, click here

I did take a drive down Mt. Misery Road last year, and took some pictures of the road and what appear to be old crumbling buildings off in the woods, which looked more like old sheds or garages than houses:

As for actual history, I have found very little information about the early years here. There was a sawmill here in the 18th century, as an ad in the New Jersey Gazette from 4 Oct 1784 mentions that one John Pope had a house and hatters shop for sale at Black Horse, Mansfield township, as well as a tract of pine land near Mt. Misery saw mill. And in the Burlington Advertiser of 30 Aug 1791, mention is made of Clayton Newbold of Mansfield, son of Michael Newbold, dec'd, and his application to the state for the division of his father's cedar swamp, on the branch of the Ancocas, where Mt. Misery sawmill stands. If you know anything about this place, please send me an e-mail.