Recent content by Tom

Eminent domain is theft, even if the victims are compensated. Just goes to show, along with taxes, that you "own" nothing. My childhood home was taken from my parents though eminent domain by the County in 1985 to expand a landfill that my mother had successfully gotten shut down while mayor.

Bob and Guy, I appreciate your help with this. Guy, I'd like to visit the other stones with you. Any particular weekdays work best for you?

I inherited one copy from my grandmother and another from a cousin. It is north up for the most part. Have you looked at it? Ben posted it in the historic map gallery.

Can anyone tell me where these two roads are/were? They appear on the bottom of the Jones Tract map and intersect one another, but I cannot figure out what roads they are today. Perhaps they are not even around any longer? I think they would be somewhere east of Chatsworth. Or maybe part of...

We go there for breakfast, occasionally, when we are staying at our trailer in Timberline, and it's always been good, but it's breakfast... I've heard a lot of positive praise for them lately, though, specifically their burgers.

Yes, that is the scale.

The following photographs are of Anthony Jones Morris, the son of Anthony Saunders Morris, and Rose Hill and Gristmill in Pemberton.

I am familiar with the image in Boyers book, and in fact, my family has had a copy of it for ages and has maintained that it is, indeed, from Hanover. Of course, this could be wrong. It was also published in R. D. Wood Company, 1803-1953 - what was the Florence Iron Works founded by Richard...

Attached is a photograph of James Athanasius Fenwick (1866) and a photo of his home taken by his cousin, Richard Woodmansie Jones, in 1910. Fenwick was raised by his uncle and aunt, Benjamin and Mary Howell Jones. Born in 1818, his mother and father, Susan Howell Fenwick and Athanasius...

Doubtful. I don't really know though because i haven’t spoken with him in nearly 20 years. Don't really know him.

The watercolor still exists, though I've never seen it in person. My cousin in NY has it. It was likely painted between 1840 and 1845, as Harriet was born in 1825 and her father, Benjamin, owned the operation until 1846, at which point he sold it to Richard and Samuel. This is a better image...

Attached is the only known photograph of an original photo (don't know what happened to the original) of Samuel Howell Jones sitting in front of the house on Hanover Lake. People are standing by the tree on the other side of the lake, we don't know who they are, although it may be his first...

Congratulations on your retirement, Guy.

Guy, Do you know if Asa Pitman is related to George Henry Pitman? I have a deed for a lot in Browns Mills transferring title from George Pitman to Eayre Lippincott near lands of Selah Schull and Levi Parker. I have never understood why I have this deed, as I am not aware of any relation...