Batsto Village

Batsto was a Pine Barrens iron-and-glass village founded around 1766 whose furnace supplied munitions to the Continental Army and whose ironworkers were exempt from military service. After iron collapsed a glass works ran for about twenty more years, and industrialist Joseph Wharton later bought it as a country manor. Many restored buildings, a museum and a visitor center stand in Wharton State Forest, near the ruins of nearby ghost towns such as Washington and Harrisville.