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Bivalve in Cumberland County, New Jersey — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
 

Steps to Harvest Oysters and Bring to Market

Marker #2

 
 
Shucking Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Don Morfe, April 2, 2013
1. Shucking Marker
Inscription.
5. Oysters were counted into bushel baskets.

6. Bushels were consolidated into sacks or barrels.

7. Sacks or barrels were wheeled on hand trucks through the alley way and were loaded into the awaiting boxcars.

Shucking
The practice of floating oysters (step #2) was banned around 1927 after an outbreak of typhoid fever was blamed on the Delaware Bay oysters. Later the true source of the epidemic was identifies as milk from Chicago, but by then the practice of shucking (removing oyster from shell) was in place. An almost exclusively African American migrant work force was imported from the Chesapeake Bay to work as shuckers in the packinghouses. The workers lived in deplorable conditions in company towns such as Shellpile. They were seasonal workers and returned to their homes along the Chesapeake. Eventually, many workers and their families settled permanently in the Bayshore Region.

Funding for this interpretive exhibit is made possible in part by a grant from the Garden State Historic Preservation Trust administrated by the New Jersey Historic Trust.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Industry & Commerce. A significant historical year for this entry is 1927.
 
Location. 39° 13.986′ N, 75° 1.95′ W. Marker is in Bivalve, New Jersey
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, in Cumberland County. Marker is on High Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 2800 High Street, Port Norris NJ 08349, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. A different marker also named Steps to Harvest Oysters and Bring to Market (here, next to this marker); Bivalve Oyster Shipping Sheds (within shouting distance of this marker); Ecology in the Watershed (within shouting distance of this marker); The Schooner AJ Meerwald (within shouting distance of this marker); Delaware Bay and River (within shouting distance of this marker); Maurice River (within shouting distance of this marker); A Guiding Light (approx. 2.6 miles away); All Shapes, Sizes and Materials (approx. 2.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Bivalve.
 
Shucking Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Don Morfe, April 2, 2013
2. Shucking Marker
This marker is next to the Steps to Harvest Oysters and Bring to Market marker
Bivalve Center image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Don Morfe, April 2, 2013
3. Bivalve Center
Welcome to the historic Bivalve Shipping Sheds and Wharves, Delaware Bay Museum and Folklife Center, and homeport to New Jersey’s Tall Ship, the oyster schooner A. J. MEERWALD
Shucking Oysters, Bivalve, New Jersey image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Arthur Rothstein, circa October 1, 1938
4. Shucking Oysters, Bivalve, New Jersey
Photo is part of the U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs Collection, provided courtesy of the Library of Congress.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on April 13, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 341 times since then and 3 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on April 13, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.   4. submitted on April 17, 2013. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.

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