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Willy, The HABS document is for the Twin Lake Holding Company, and this is what I understand to be their real estate interest known as Twin Lakes (now Harding Lakes), seen here on the c.1931 aerial photomosaics...

I directly use the NRCS Web Soil Survey through this portal: https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm USDA-NRCS is an amazing soil data resource, now made even better! Thanks for the tip. For more dish on local dirt: Tedrow JCF. 1986. Soils of New Jersey. Malabar, FL: Robert...

Thank you 46er, I didn’t even want to open that can of worms. The images I excerpted (Little 1946; et al. 1967) are government documents that are in the public domain. The old-growth pine-stand photo is over 100-years-old, so it too would no longer be subject to copyright restriction. I took...

bobpbx, I'm all for open use of photos, and work hard to get my old documents reprinted. Still, some do not share my views and so I have to keep promises to honor their wishes. I once displayed a photo in presentation that belonged to a blog member. It had source citation, but still he was hot...

bobpbx, I am sorry if my earlier post was cryptic. Let me explain this serendipitous record of what appears to be old-growth pine without understory shrubbery as Little (1946) envisioned. The photo was received from the now-deceased local historian John Madera. He gave me permission to use it...

Oh.... I can't pass up any chance to bring up my favorite Pinelands citation—Little, Little, and Doolittle! Silas Little was also a keen observer of spungs and savannahs, and mentored Jack McCormick, the botanist who wrote the ecological inventory for the Pine Barrens and another one for...

Forester Silas Little imagined that frequent fires meant there was little underbrush in early Pine Barrens forest, and that travel by horseback or cart could be accomplished through tall stands of old bull pines without need of a trail. The forest canopy was imagined to be tight, which also...

It is not uncommon in the Pine Barrens for ironstone blocks to used in farmstead and other graveyards, especially to mark child burials. In one instance, I know of an old log-cabin-church burial ground associated with Black colliers with perhaps 35 interments, yet only a couple of ironstone...

As I understand there is an old Quaker tradition of planting a “marriage tree” at a wedding. This planting task involved ceremony and silence. I too have seen a number of reputed marriage trees planted in pairs, often being sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) or its hybrid cousin London plane...

The South Jersey Culture & History Center at Stockton is proud to announce the second issue of SoJourn, a journal devoted to the history, culture, and geography of South Jersey Contents of this issue: “Kate Aylesford: Modernity and Place in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens” by Matthew G. Hatvany —A...

There will be a talk tomorrow night (Wednesday, January 11, 2017) about Ice Age landscapes of South Jersey, hosted by the Friends of Ewing Library. http://www.shop.minutemanpress.com/news/northeast/new-jersey/ewing/ewing-goes-back-to-the-ice-age-98794.html S-M

As I understand from Mizpah historian Virginia Gale (and former postmaster), the toy factory was at the end of DeHirsch between Railroad Boulevard and the tracks (now open park land). http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.485832591308466&lng=-74.83512717884065&z=17&type=nj1930&gpx=...

Archie (aka Junior) is gone, but I still see Antoinette in town. Their story is told in Legendary Locals of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and in a lot of newspaper articles. The general store remains a treasure to locals. In the redevelopment plan the institution has been envisioned as a...

Mr. Riggin, NJ Certified Tree Expert #366, estimated the tree's age to be 135-year old in his report to the municipality. Mr. Demitroff, NJ Certified Tree Expert #285 estimated the tree's age to be 175-year old in his communications to the municipality. I suspect the true age to be somewhere...

Middle Road, in Hammonton Tract's “middle” ground, holds a mystery. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/atsion-old-and-renewed.4376/page-12#post-131147 On the 1860: Griffith Morgan Hopkins, Jr. "Topographical Map of the State of New Jersey: Together with the Vicinities of New York and...

Jerseyman, MikeBickerson, great stuff. Is there any record of a “little mill” on Little Creek? This creek’s length really isn’t that short. Uncle Budd suggested that the old meaning of the term “little” had more to do with water-storage duration than mill size. The concept was that a little mill...

Just checking in to report that the garden is still producing. We are picking four varieties of lettuce, parsley, cilantro, scallions, kale, mustard, collards, and other greens, parsnips, daikon, a bit of chard, a couple peas, and Jerusalem artichoke. The Apollo Hybrid “Brokali” side sprouts...

What do 65-million-year-old fossils in Vincentown have to do with ice-coring in Greenland and Antarctica? Monday, September 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM – Soggy Ground: Valuing Pine Barrens Wetlands. Southampton Historical Society, Vincentown, NJ. I'll also talk about the origins and use of ancient...

Boyd, Judging by the amount of leaves drying up on understory shrubs, especially the non-natives, I think the Richland area ground has reached its wilting point despite a couple of gully-washers during the last couple of months. Spring growth was lush (too lush) due to abundant rain and cool...

Manumuskin, Which Hartman map marks a grist mill in on Lawrens Branch in Hesstown? All I remember are beaver ponds marked there, but it makes sense to use every bit of water power to make life easier. That is a serviceable place to put a mill. Like old taverns, little mills pop up in unexpected...