{"id":662,"date":"2013-08-10T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T08:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=662"},"modified":"2013-10-25T06:23:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T06:23:03","slug":"the-dock-of-the-bay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgans-people-places\/places\/the-dock-of-the-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dock of the Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Artifacts \u2013 The Dock of the Bay<\/h3>\n
\"Ruins<\/a>

Ruins of the Raritan Bay Dock in Morgan.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jutting out into Raritan Bay in the southern most (Morgan) portion of Raritan Bay Waterfront Park is the remains of an old dock.\u00a0 What little is left of the structure are the short wooden pile stumps erupting out of the sand. It isn\u2019t clear to me what the real name of this dock was but somehow I concluded it was perhaps called Perrine Dock.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where I got that information so it may not be correct.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also isn\u2019t clear how any vessel could have floated to the dock since it is so close to the shore and the bay is very shallow at this part.\u00a0 At low tide, all of the pile remains are totally surrounded by sand with no water.\u00a0 Perhaps it wasn\u2019t always this way in this area.\u00a0 The sludge from the dredging of the Raritan Bay channels in the 1950\u2019s was deposited in what now is the Raritan Bay Waterfront Park.\u00a0 Most likely some of the spillage flowed over to and filled in the area of the dock remains.\u00a0 The 1934 Raritan Bay survey (see illustration and the to-be-reposted write-up), which occurred prior to the dredging, showed depths around the dock of one foot at low tide.\u00a0 This survey also shows the dock as having been in the shape of the letter \u201cL\u201d.\u00a0 The stem (i.e., longest part) traveled from the shoreline into the bay in an east northeast direction where it then turned 90 degrees to the right (south southeast).\u00a0 This short part, which was parallel with the shoreline, must have been were the boats tied up to the dock. The remains of the dock seen in the 1940 aerial image on HistoricAerials.com (see the to-be-reposted write-up) show just the short side of the dock.<\/p>\n

\"Portion<\/a>

Portion of the 1934 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of Raritan Bay Showing the Dock.<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019m surmising but most likely this dock would have used by local farmers to load produce onto boats for transportation to other places, including possibly New York City.\u00a0 Possibly it might have also helped provide supplies brought in from elsewhere. Someone on one of the Morgan\/Sayreville\/South Amboy Facebook groups indicated the dock was used for clay.\u00a0 That seems more plausible since there was a clay pit right where the railroad tracks are now starting, I would guess, about 100 years before the railroad went through. There is actually much more I don\u2019t know about this structure than there is that I do know.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know when it was built, by whom, why, what it really was used for, when it stopped being used, or when it fell into ruins.\u00a0 I do know that there was a dock there and all that was left during and after my time in Morgan were the piling stumps.\u00a0 As of my 2012 visit, I was no longer able to even find the remains of the posts so perhaps it is all totally gone now.<\/span><\/p>\n

This dock does not show on the 1886 Raritan Bay survey (see the to-be-reposted write-up) but can be seen \u2013 if you are looking for it and able to find it – in the episode of the NBC TV show \u201cMercy\u201d which was partially filmed in Morgan and South Amboy in January 2010 (see the to-be-reposted write-up).<\/p>\n

If anyone with Morgan knowledge has any information regarding this dock, please make an entry in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n

Originally posted on March 7, 2010.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Artifacts \u2013 The Dock of the Bay Jutting out into Raritan Bay in the southern most (Morgan) portion of Raritan Bay Waterfront Park is the remains of an old dock.\u00a0 What little is left of the structure are the short wooden pile stumps erupting out of the sand. It isn\u2019t clear to me what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":979,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-662","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662\/revisions\/663"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}