Space Farms and Museum

If you happen to be tooling through Beemerville, New Jersey, stop in at Space Farms and Museum.

Space Farms was known as the home of Goliath, the World’s Largest Bear.  Goliath died in 1991 but he still does tourist duty, mounted standing erect at almost twelve feet tall!

One of the highlights of a stop here, besides Goliath, is the odd collections, and case after case of items found on their property:  dinosaur bones, the skulls of dead Indians (some with fragments of flesh still attached), the first two cents Fred Space ever earned, and of course the skull of Goliath.

One cabinet showcases a dead turtle on whose belly “great-grandfather Space” engraved his initials in 1897 - found still crawling around by Fred Space in 1942 and kept alive for 14 years after that.  Fred thoughtfully displays the turtle belly up for all to see.

Space Farms continues to be a popular destination, drawing an odd mix of petting zoo families and people who really like the name.  In the gift shop, we recommend the greenish postcard of the Indian doll collection and those of Fred Space holding aloft writhing timber rattlers.

Space Farms is located at 218 Beemerville Rd., Beemerville, NJ

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