Recent content by Jerseyman

You need to travel out Powell Road and make a right turn on Mill Creek Road. Take it to the end and you be overlooking the Rancocas Creek from an elevation of at least 30 feet above the waterway. You will need to make a left or a right to avoid dropping into the creek. I hope you find what you...

Folks: It is with profound sadness that I report the passing of archaeologist Budd Wilson this morning, surrounded by friends and family. As was his wish, no formal service or memorial will be held. So, we should remember him in our hearts and minds. Requiescat In Pace, Budd. You presence will...

Teegate: This past Wednesday, I finished processing M. (Mark) Warner Hargrove's papers. What a treasure trove. Not only did he prepare descriptions of many Burlington County Pine Barrens toponyms, but his biographical sketches of Pineys he encountered through the years are stellar. The South...

Piney Roots: You have conducted some impressive research and your primary source material is perfect for your purposes. I will caution you on taking John Clement's work at face value. His Maps and Drafts are an amazing source for local historians, but when it comes to his notes and his...

DEBBIE: If you read my postings carefully, you will find that I sought to refute the identifier of "witch" when discussing Peggy Clevenger. I often find myself exploding myths (read fakelore) with historical truth and informed opinions. Your opening paragraph mischaracterizes what I wrote about...

Brown village: In addition to the fine link that pinelandpaddler provided to the National Park Service document, you can download this Masters Thesis on the Burcham Farm, the last remaining active banked meadow farm in South Jersey, located on the Maurice River: CU Maurice River...

Guy: Here is post office location map that Oriental referenced: Best regards, Jerseyman

As a follow-up to my previous comment, a friend of mine is a Swinburne expert. He indicated that the renaming occurred sometime during the second half of 1854. The locomotive received three boiler changes by 1876, and removed from the roster and sent for scrapping in June 1886. Best regards...

The firm styled as Swinburne, Smith & Co. of Paterson, New Jersey, constructed the Camden & Atlantic Railroad's locomotive ATSION in 1853. She was a 4-4-0 American-type locomotive with 60" drivers and 15"x22" cylinders. At some subsequent point in time, the railroad renamed the engine TEMPEST...

German: The information imparted to you is pure fakelore. Somers Brick remained Somers Brick until the end. The company fell into arrears with its property tax payments during the second half of the 1930s, forcing a sheriff's sale of their lands. During the early 1920s, the company cranked out...

NMuscella: Documentation for Union Works/Union Forge is thin at best. Charles Boyer's Early Forges and Furnaces in New Jersey contains but a single page: During research I conducted earlier this year, I concluded Boyer's work is less trustworthy than I once considered it. I was quite...

Aleahey: Herewith are details from the 1849 and 1859 County rolled maps and a detail from the 1876 County atlas. You will note that extensive tidal marsh lands once lined the Delaware River's east shore in the area of today's Palmyra Nature Cove. Beginning after 1666, Swedes first occupied this...

Scroggy: You have certainly consulted the correct sources. Additional information can be gleaned from the State Geologist Annual Reports for the period as well as the 1868 encyclopedic work, Geology of New Jersey by George H. Cook. Some of the clay lens found in this part of Ocean County was...

Very interesting photographs, Jeff! I would be very keen in viewing your discoveries in person, but it does appear you have found a site containing some of Townsend's kilns. The only historical map that provides a modicum of information on Townsend/Wheatland and its location is the 1872 Beers...

The location for the Wheatland Manufacturing Company Works (nee Townsend) is different than the Brooksbrae plant. Wheatland was a bit father north along the tracks from Brooksbrae and operate with two downdraft muffle kilns. Only two circular piles of bricks remain in situ from the kilns on very...