Nature Done Wright

As part of a research project, I subscribed to an aerial-photography website for a month and downloaded images of the land from the 1930s to the current decade. The aerials show much of Allendale.

I am posting an image for almost every decade. With the help of New Jersey’s Green Acres program, Allendale bought 60 acres of the Celery Farm in the early 1980s and gradually expanded it to the present-day 107 acres.

The Fyke Nature Association website has a page that reprints my history of the Celery Farm, from the book that Jerry Barrack and I did with Doug Goodell’s help. You can read the history here: https://www.fykenature.org/cfhistory

I hope to post a few Celery Farm aerials taken by Jerry Barrack and by me later this week, along the classic shot from the Stiles and Lillian Thomas collection.

Here are the Allendale aerials:

1931

1953

1966

1984

1995

2006

2015

2022