Double Trouble Village
A historic village in Bayville, New Jersey, Double Trouble Village is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic village research record. It sits in the archive under ghost towns and industrial history. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.
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Is Double Trouble Village haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
Double Trouble Village sits on Cedar Creek in the Berkeley Township Pine Barrens, on land first held by East Jersey proprietor Antony Sharp; a 1765 survey already shows a mill on the creek. The name was on deeds by 1790, and the legends explaining it are the state's telling — sawmill operator Thomas Potter cursing heavy rains that twice breached the mill dam in the 1770s, or muskrats gnawing two leaks at once and a workman shouting 'Here's double trouble!'
The Giberson family lumbered the tract through the nineteenth century, two water-powered sawmills cutting Atlantic white cedar into shingles, laths and ship timber; as the cedar swamps cleared, the cut-over bogland proved ideal for cranberries, and cranberry culture began at Double Trouble in the 1860s.
Company town to park
Edward Crabbe and James Porter bought the property in 1903; Crabbe's Double Trouble Company built the modern sorting and packing house and the pickers' cottages, and became one of New Jersey's largest cranberry growers through the American Cranberry Exchange. The Garden State Parkway cut through the tract in 1954; the state bought the village in 1964 to protect the Cedar Creek watershed, and the two-hundred-acre Double Trouble Historic District — packing house with its intact Hayden separators, sawmill, general store, schoolhouse, pickers' cottages ringed around a gravel drive between two bogs — entered the National Register in 1978.
The dossier files it as industrial history and preserved village, its research notes marking the discovery record's limits. No haunting claim attaches — the 'ghost town' label is the state's own shorthand for a company town kept standing.
Documented history
Preserved village associated with cranberry farming and Atlantic white cedar logging and milling. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Double Trouble' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
Verified historyNew Jersey Department of Transportation
Sources on file
- 01Double TroubleNew Jersey Department of Transportation · government · A1
Field notes & open questions
Discovery relies on government search excerpt; NJDEP full-page request returned 403. Settlement classification and current access need fuller verification.