New Brunswick, New Jersey - Mary Murray Ferry Derelict
- Address:
- New Brunswick, NJ [Show Map]
- Directions:
- Just north of Exit 9 on the NJ Turnpike at mile marker 84.2 and can be seen from the northbound shoulder of the road. Although it is a little scary to sit there and view it as the road shakes a lot from the trucks pounding the road as they drive over it. There's a rear approach to the ferry via Schoolhouse Lane, though it may be gated.
- Hours:
- Private Property. No Trespassing.
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New Brunswick, New Jersey - Mary Murray Ferry Boat Derelict I live in Southern New Jersey and for 10 years I have traveled back and forth on the NJ Turnpike to visit my family in New York. I began seeing this abandoned ferry boat and it always piqued my curiosity as to where it came from and why was it just sitting there; however I would quickly forget about it until the next time I headed north. I finally stopped and photographed it and did some research and found out it is an abandoned ferry.
The Mary Murray was a Staten Island ferry boat, commissioned in 1937 and named after Mary Lindley Murray, who helped the American troops during the Revolutionary War by distracting the British officers and her Crown-loyal husband. The boat was sold at auction in 1982 to a man who owned a marina in East Brunswick. He planned to turn it into a floating restaurant, but it sank before he managed to get to its final destination. [Eileen, 07/05/2008]
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