- Grounds: Open daily, dawn to dusk
- Visitor Center: Open daily, 9AM - 4PM
- Batsto Mansion: Please call for daily tour times
- Batsto Mansion Guided Tours
- Self-Guided Tours with the Batsto Village Interpretive Trail Guide
- Various public programs and events are offered throughout the year, including Seasonal Walking Tours, Evening Folklore Lantern Tours in October, and Holiday Tours of Batsto Mansion in December
- School Group Tours
- Picnic tables
- Parking
- Visitor Center
- Restrooms
- Nature Center
- Weekends, Memorial Day to Labor Day, $5 (NJ Residents), $7 (Non-Residents)
Batsto Village
31 Batsto Road, Hammonton, NJ 08037
(609) 561-0024
Once a prosperous industrial town, Batsto now appears as it did in the late nineteenth century. During the American Revolution, Batsto’s furnace provided iron goods, including cannons and cannonballs, to General George Washington’s Continental Army. Decades later, Batsto shifted to glass production, manufacturing windowpanes and streetlights for cities like Camden, NJ. Joseph Wharton, a wealthy industrialist from Philadelphia, purchased the village in 1876. No longer producing iron or glass, Wharton turned Batsto into a small farming and milling community that also served as one of his family’s many private estates.
Today, Batsto Village is open to the public as a preserved Pine Barrens industrial town. Highlights include an operational 1852 post office, a functional 1882 water-powered sawmill, and an impressive 36-room Victorian mansion. The grounds are open year-round for self-guided tours, and guided tours of Batsto Mansion are available throughout the year.
WHAT TO SEE AND DO
- Explore Batsto Village at your own pace by using the Batsto Village Interpretive Trail Guide
- Catch a guided mansion tour to learn more about the village’s many inhabitants over its centuries of use
- Attend a special event offered throughout the year
- Explore the abundant wildlife that surrounds Batsto Village in Wharton State Forest
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