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View from way out in Tabernacle at 5:30. Looking west. Sun setting behind.

Head of Woods must be short for "head of Wood's Swamp". The 1885 Cook map shows Wood Swamp a little to the west so presumably the area represents the so-called headwaters (or most upstream portion) of Wood Swamp. I am sure I have seen old deeds that confirm this assumption but can't put my hands...

Smelled smoke in Speedwell Thursday morning.

Norton's Corral.

One More was Brenton's and before that Fett's. When I was a kid it was called Giby's presumably for someone named Giberson. Fett's had "dancing girls" for awhile. Only started going once it was Brenton's and we started living nearby.

I believe that we talked about Dr Green the Hermit of Bass River before. The Doctor from New York shunned society and left for the Pines in the late 1800s. He served as postmaster for a very short-lived town in that area called Rollestone in 1894. Presumably the post office was to be located...

I think the map is for the mill site that was several miles up the Atsion at the mouth of Sleepy Creek. The lidar image appears to be the old Cripps Sawmill.

Thanks for checking it out. I was surprised to discover that the road was only built in the 1930s. At first I hypothesized that the woodwork might have supported an earlier bridge but topographic maps and aerial imagery appear to disprove this idea. If my travels take me to River Road Clam...

That is the area. South side of the bridge. I don't think I ever took a picture.

So if you follow Landing Creek upstream to where it passes under Clark's Landing Road there is some sort of wooden structure or bulkhead. It is clearly visible from the road. Does anyone know the history of that structure?

I did not know immediately but had a pretty good idea where to look. Found it quickly on the map. Kinda feel like I cheated. The small north-south running creek seems too straight to be natural. Any idea if it was dug?

I wonder if that oxbow to the west is subject to flooding during exceptionally high tides. Might explain why a ditch was necessary.

When Atsion was advertised for sale in 1861 the site was already referred to as Old Goshen Mill which usually indicated that it was the former site of a mill. I have not done an exhaustive search to find out if there are earlier documents that tell us that the mill was gone before then. As for...

We should consider that the timbers at the lower end of the canal could be the remains of some type of water-powered industrial works.