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There is a tunnel that runs under the Turnpike on the North side of the Rancocas River just after the bridge. It was negotiated by the landowner, Granville Haines, the farm is now an industrial park. Haines owned 35 acres of pasture on the other side and wanted direct access. When he sold off...

There must be a distinction made between Invasive non native species and beneficial non native specie. Unfortunately that isn't happening. Trumpet pitchers are not the same threat as for instance Purslane. Run a rototiller through a patch of purslane containg 10 or so large plants, and you...

Where we were, there wasn't even a firebreak, let alone a useable road. And chiggers! I really hate chiggers. The link you put up isn't working, but yes, the raised area sounds familiar.

Does anyone know of any photos that exist of the Steam Trolley that serviced Long Beach Island? From what I've been told the tracks ran where Bay Ave is now.

From the back side of Batsto lake we walked for over an hour. The first 10 miutes or so we waled the same trail now used for the Nature walks. Eventually we came to a raised area, noticebly higher than the ground surrounding. A short distance into this area we passed a couple of cellar holes...

I apologise if I came off as being annoyed, I was but not with anything here. I own an international history forum, All Empires. I had just come from there and had to handle a nuisance problem and it apparently carried over in my attitude here. I also might have been a little annoyed at having...

If this is in regards to "Mayetta", Mayetta sits South of Manahawkin, roughly halfway between Manahawkin and Tuckerton. On the right side of RT 9 heading North out of Tuckerton there is a cast iron sign reading "Mayetta". Immed. beyond the sign is what I think is the only remaining original...

Well, like I said, I was fifteen at the time, I'm 65 now, and this is from memory, but both of them called it "Penn's Swamp". It was not a short stroll from Batsto, it took about an hour of walking to reach it. I do recall that Chet had told me it was the only easily travled trail to it. I have...

Howdy JM. Some interesting stuff there. I don't live in Martin's Beach, My home is actually in Twins Hills Section of Willingboro. However our backyard faces out onto what was Irish Wharf. The site at the bottom of Kennedy way was under another name. IW was the last 2 quays at the end of...

Jerseyman, you and I lived in Rancocas at about the same time. My parents lived in the Hudson Haines house, the last house on the right going toward Mt. Holly. After the bypass went through they built an Exxon next to us. Granville and Julia Haines owned the property as part of Rancocas Valley...

Okay, so both Chet Mathis and Koster were either lying or dead wrong, I was about 15 at the time and I have no alternatives to what I posted. As I knew them both fairly well, I'll stick to what they told me. Thanks anyway.

There have always been black bears cruising in that area. It's been 20 years, but I lived in Atco for 3 years. Behind Edgewood HS off rt.73, is the swamp that runs in back of Atco lake, it's still a surprisingly large area. I used to walk my dogs in an empty field just off the farthest end of...

Wow, haven't seen anyone talk about "Aserdaten" in years. Aserdaten appeared on a 1948 Topo map produced by the Geo.survey. The one feature that made it a usable tract is it's elevation. It was approx 3 ft. higher than the surrounding swamp. I'm as sure as I can be that I have been on the...

If I had the time, I'd be tempted to plant in some of the new hybrid pitchers. There are some new ones that are outstanding. I believe our climate here is still a little extreme to sustain Dionaea for an extended period of time.

To my knowledge there never was a truly wild population of Dionaea in NJ. Only those which the Gent. from Green Bank planted in back in the 30's. The last patch I knew of was inundated when they re-built the Dam at Harrisville. If there is any left anyone who knows of it is keeping it to...