Overview
Whitesbog Village sits among working cranberry bogs and blueberry fields in the New Jersey Pine Barrens near Browns Mills — the White family's company town of the early twentieth century, and the birthplace of an agricultural revolution: here Elizabeth Coleman White partnered with USDA botanist Frederick Coville to domesticate the wild highbush blueberry, shipping the first commercial crop in 1916 and changing world farming from a Barrens bog village; the Whitesbog Preservation Trust now keeps the general store, workers' cottages, White's home Suningive and the surrounding bogs, running tours, festivals and moonlight walks. Its telling is proprietress-gentle, of a familiar kind: Miss White herself, in trust and visitor accounts, about her Suningive gardens and the village lanes — a figure in period dress, footsteps on the store porch, lights in the cottage windows, voices by the bogs at dusk — undocumented, affectionate, aired on the trust's own evening programmes. Present Whitesbog as agricultural-heritage first — the blueberry's cradle and a woman scientist's monument — its garden figure the village's fond keeper. Events from trust pages.