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Smuggler’s Cove

Hidden along the banks of the Navesink River, a hamlet is nestled among the trees and winding waterways.

Mansions line the riverbanks that date back to the nineteenth century, when the area served as a summer colony to bankers and industrialists.

The legacy of wealth continues into the twenty-first century, with the bedroom community, Smuggler’s Cove, boasting the second-highest per capita income in the state of New Jersey.

The land, originally purchased from the Lenape Indians, became a safe haven for Dutch traders in the 1600s.

One of Henry Hudson’s ships, the Half Moon, came ashore along the Sandy Hook Bay and discovered it was rich in plants, flowers, and trees.

But more importantly, it was refuge from storms blowing in from the Atlantic Ocean, and their competition.

They discovered they could navigate the waterways unnoticed and began their expansion.

However, the Dutch traders also faced other dangers.

Pirates learned of this new network of goods and began their raids along the shore.

The marauders would intentionally cause shipwrecks and then loot the ships once they wrecked ashore.

In the late 1600s, a New York ship captain named William Kidd was hired to hunt the pirates and put a stop to the attacks.

Ironically, Captain Kidd himself was arrested for piracy in 1699.

Legend has it that he, and other pirates, buried their treasure along the Jersey Shore.

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