The land you are now standing on was once the third most productive cranberry farm in the United States. If was owned by one James Garfield DeMarco.
DeMarco was a star athlete who graduated with top marks from Dartmouth. He went on to study Medieval History as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Naples, then went on to graduate from Yale Law School. Yet, he never practiced law, becoming a cranberry farmer at the age of 26 when his father died in a car accident. He ended up at the head of the Ocean Spray Cranberry Cooperative which most of the local cranberry farmers belonged to (his father had helped to found it, and had served as its head as well).
He grew into a polical heavyweight, serving as a boss of the local Republican Party. In that role, he often went head-to-head with the Pinelands Commission in land use battles. He was a big fundraiser for Republicans state wide and served as the Chairman of the Burlington County Republican Party, and had enough clout that Governor Kean called him "the chairmen of the chairmen". Later in life, he became an independent and battled for gay rights, a change that happened when he came out as gay and went on to marry his partner in 2015.
He also changed from one who battled the Pinelands Commission to someone who supported conservation, as he sold the massive property that is now the Franklin Parker Preserve for a heavily discounted price of $12 million.
This larger-than-life man, a model of civic dedication (he was part of not only dedicating land for the Chatsworth Town Hall, but also provided money to help build it), put his mark on Hammonton and Chatsworth, and this preserve and all that's in it is his legacy.
Cache is a good sized lock top container hidden deep in the heart of the Parker Preserve. It's worth the walk to find this one.