Welcome to Historic Whitesbog Village
Whitesbog Village is an early 20th century company town and agricultural community. In the early 1900’s, Whitesbog was the largest cranberry farm in New Jersey. Its founder, Joseph J. White, was a nationally recognized leader in the cranberry industry. In 1916, Elizabeth C. White collaborated with Dr. Frederick A. Coville of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and successfully developed the first cultivated blueberry here at Whitesbog.
Whitesbog is an important part of New Jersey history and the history of the blueberry and cranberry culture in the United States. It is listed on both the National and State Registers of Historic Sites. Whitesbog includes the village and the surrounding 3,000 acres of cranberry bogs, blueberry fields, reservoirs, sugar sand roads and Pine Barren’s forests.
Join us for the 29th Annual Whitesbog Blueberry Festival
Saturday, June 23, 2012
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Celebrate the Centennial of the Cultivated Highbush Blueberry
Enjoy Pinelands folk music, great festival food, walking/wagon tours, country crafts, local artists, lectures, exhibits, lots of activities for children, an Old-time General Store, all in a interpreted 1920′s company town!
Funding for the Festival is made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts through a grant to the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
The Whitesbog Preservation Trust is pleased to have been awarded a General Operating Support Grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State, for fiscal year 2012 and an Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grant from the New Jersey Cultural Trust that supported the creation of this website.