My great-grandfather was involved in this industry around that time - but a little farther up the NJ coast.
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John Leavitt
Reminds me of @ironspike.bsky.social ‘s interest in hordes “oh yeah we hid an extremely valuable thing too well” or Alan Turing burying his silver and then forgetting where it was www.nj.com/atlantic/202...
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