History Uncovered, The Pinelands Was Almost Home To Mega Airport
History Uncovered, The Pinelands Was Almost Home To Mega Airport In the 1950s, with air travel booming, there a movement to add another airport to our region...and a new city with 250,000 residents. These additions would have changed the landscape of the Jersey Shore and South Jersey drastically. Frankly, it kind of excited me to think what might have been. The New Jersey Pinelands covers over 1,400 square miles and sits directly in the middle of "Megalopolis", an area going from Virginia to New Hampshire. In the 50s, this area was home to roughly 40 million Americans. As more of the...
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