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The central Jersey line out of lakehurst headed East runs parallel ans a little south of route 37. There's a Gemania Station road across from the Walmart, near Mule Rd. Which would put Appolonia where route 37 and county road 527 Lakehurst rd. split. There is another train the Pennsylvania...

Thanks. I think Prince is pretty great too.

Crossley preserve is directly North of Zeb's bridge, could that be the Appolonia stop on the railroad?

There are several layers to the history of the Dover Forge area. From the Cedar creek end of the Dover Forge trail where the remain of the old bridge that crossed the water, following the path out to Bamber, to the actual forge area, where the soil is as black as coal in spots near the mill...

Could that stop also be Crossley?

there was an old mill there, right under the south side of the river. https://www.howellheritagehistoricalsociety.org/squankum-mill...

I know that area well! It's old farmland. first cleared by the Allen family of Allenwood in the early 1700s . There were houses on Allenwood Lakewood rd. as recently as the 1970s and a garage/ gas station. The greater portion was used as borrow pits to build up the Brick reservoir embankments. A...

Double Trouble has a few miles of trails accessible from different entrances. Other than the trails near the village near the parking lot, there's a trail that goes out to the lake, behind the Berkeley township offices and out towards Ore Pond canoe access ( Lots of puddle and prone to flooding...

This bears further investigation with Historic Aerials

I had assumed those were to do with the cranberry business, the concrete slabs being the packing house foundations

I don't remember any, but I wasn't looking for them. If you go here and click through the photos, you'll find an album titled the South Side of Allaire, there are all the pictures from our last visit https://www.facebook.com/AdventuresinNJ?mibextid=ZbWKwL

Oh, the last time I was out there 2013, so... Maybe?

Some of the old farm equipment we found out there on site.