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Like most Pinelands hamlets, there is little known about the area's early history. Mizpah is on the Cohansey trail, a very ancient and important aboriginal byway that began at then Cohansey (now Greenwich) and crossed the Long-A-Coming trail at the Lochs-of-the-Swamp at the Steelman Plantation...

Before cranberries the drained lands were used mostly for cattle pasturage (savannah) and rough hay production without infill. Also, meadow ore, an early name for bog ore, could be more easily extracted. "In the northern part of the county, between Atsion and Batsto, another system appears to...

I Googled William Heulings and this early survey reference popped up. Nelson, William. (2013). New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives (Vol. 9). London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1916)...

the sound of silence... while I have another cup of tea, semi-fermented.

Thanks TJ! I'm still trying to figure out West Mill. Are there two ancient mills operating within two miles of each other – Sleepy and West? What is the earliest references we have for each? According to the Pennsylvania Gazette advertisement the saw mill for sale is in ruins by 1782, although...

TJ, Could the ruins of an old sawmill and iron work "on one of the branches" be West's Mill? I've updated an older post of the historic map with new annotation for discussion. Added are possible inn sites where Shinn might have served applejack, each with watering holes (spungs). In...

Back to the Sailor Boy Tavern, its survey can be found in Clement (Volume 3, page 14, Historical Society of Pennsylvania). The Road to Weymouth is called the Gloucester Road (above). I suspect New Old Egg Harbor and Old Old Egg Harbor Roads are later straightened iterations of the original Old...

I just realized that the Clement's Maps & Surveys have been reproduced on-line at the West Jersey History Project site. Click on the map icon in the center to access all seven volumes for interesting views of Camden, Burlington, Gloucester, and Atlantic Counties. Thank you Relayer...

Residents wary after human remains found in Richland http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/residents-wary-after-human-remains-found-in-richland/article_c8f842da-5e63-11e5-8745-7b558af8b286.html I have been threatened, harassed, and accosted on various occasions for my anti sewer and...

That is the third mortality in a decade within 50-feet of my place. I should move to a safer place. Were you thinking of Camden or Atlantic City? S-M

We know western Atlantic County has a fascinating iron industry legacy, but what predated the furnace land-use? Here’s Clement’s (Volume 3, page 83, Historical Society of Pennsylvania) “Map of Cedar Swamp in the Great Swamp near the “Jorden Place” owned? by Coopers–Evans–?–Shin etc. on maps in...

Remember my siding? Human remains found in Richland BUENA VISTA Human remains were discovered near railroad tracks running through a wooded area in the southern portion of Richland Village, New Jersey State Police told The Daily Journal on Thursday afternoon...

No, I'm circling the Vineland Railroad and the Vineland cranberry lands for emphasis. I had heard that the area marked Vineland Cranberry Company had planted high. I'll query my source again. Landis was wildly successful with Vineland, and everybody copied him. I'm wondering how much of a role...

It is stated in Landis(?) (1855: 14–15, Practical Hints at a Glance Upon Farming: Written for the Weymouth Stockholders) that: “The Cranberry is an article which is now beginning to receive the attention it deserves; it has long been of the opinion that they flourish better in low marshy land...

Bob, Tatra is tasty. Thanks for pointing it out. I finally found it in Hammonton. It's light but with surprising depth and to local style – flat. Kind'a like Christian Schmidt's beer used to be in returnables, but fuller. The wife and I had it with sushi four our 26th anniversary. Years ago I...

I'm meeting tomorrow with an author who is writing a manuscript on Landis, and will query him on the vexing potential of a Klein–Kline–Kline–Cline connection. Even Landis had a different name, Landi, six generations prior when the family was in northern Italy en route to Geneva, before they...

Tracker Jim, I want to know about Kline's Tavern. I associate Kline and Shoemaker as German heritage. Wilber & Hand (1889: Illustrated History of the Town of Hammonton: With an Account of its Soil, Climate and Industries) talk about old Dutchys as the first settlers, as does Heston (Dutchtown)...

Did anyone notice that the Sailor Boy Tavern was owned by Charles Shoemaker and heirs? The Desolation Pond tavern is listed on the 1872 Beers map as property owned by the Shoemakers estate. Other similarities exist: 1) both parcels are square; 2) Sailor Boy on “New” and “Old” Old Egg...

I was a wee tyke, so barely remember. Is this part of the Atsion estate land that Michael Landis, Charles K's dad, bought from Coughlin of Philadelphia in 1860? MG Landis was the silent money-bags behind the scenes. I did a report on Margaret Mead's home for the Pinelands Commission some years...

Just a short update. I dove deeper into the Clement collection (Historical Society of Pennsylvania; also Gloucester County Historical Society) and found two more maps that help with the story we're trying to put together. First is the 1794 West Mill tract survey as “now Atsion Land" (Clement...