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Indeed! I like the area between this ruin site and the dam on Beaver Branch. Also interesting is the deep ravine at the very head of the Ives Branch.

Your in the correct spot Bobpbx. I was also assuming the structures circled in red were associated with the adjacent private property. There also appears to be three structures in the rough clearing between those circled in red and the ones featured in my photographs at the head of this post.

Thanks Bobpbx, Sounds like a wonderful time! (as it tends to be). One thing I want to point out. You mention in the recount of the events of your Feb. of 2000 trip, "We over-shot a cabin site by a quarter mile..." The site in question appears to more than just a "cabin site" as is evidenced...

A recent excursion, deep in the Bass River State Forest reveled more than I had expected... the ruins of some obscure settlement! Significant structures - one being over 48 paces long! I am interested in hearing from folks here who may be familiar with this site, and their thoughts as to what it...

Considering it basically went right around Atsion would cause one to think that was the case, but why would it have been acceptable for the town to be divided for the 135 years prior?

Wow, This goes to show that no matter how well you know a place, if you are not looking for it, you can miss it. I know what I'll be looking for next time out there.

I'm sure some of you have heard the dramatic story of a daring robbery that took place by Atsion. It was on October 5, 1916 that Andrew Jackson Rider, "The Cranberry King of New Jersey", also a founding member and first president of his namesake, Rider College, along with his daughter, brother...

I really appreciate the background on this monument - Thank you! The area around there is very special to me. Although I've explored throughout most of the Pines over the course of 20 years, the area around that monument is where my soul calls home. Thank you.

Thanks Teegate - very interesting. It's the monument by your jeep that I'm thinking of.

That would make more sense considering the Camden Co. is several miles to the NW. The monument by the Sleepy Cr./Atsion marks where the Atlantic/Burlington line diverges from the Atsion River.

Teegate, How about the monument by the confluence with the Sleepy Creek. I believe it also is a three-way.

I thought perhaps a directory of individuals who worked and resided at Atson would make a nice addition to this thread. The following folks lived and worked in Atsion during the early Wharton years. The population at Atsion during the year 1895 - 1896 was about 100.

Yes Teegate, That part (which at one time was entirely within the Atsion estate) was set off to Burlington County on April 3, 1902. The old boundary was the Atsion River. After 1902 the boundary became a straight line beginning at the confluence of the Sleepy Creek and the Atsion, to the...

Hexamer General Survey of Harrisville Paper Mill from 1877: http://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/view-image.cfm/HGSv12.1151

...And Harrisville 1877: http://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/view-image.cfm/HGSv12.1151 and Weymouth 1877: http://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/view-image.cfm/HGSv12.1109 And Nescochague Mills 1873: http://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/view-image.cfm/HGSv8.0677 Atco Glass...

1872 Beers Comstock & Cline map of Atlantic County - Atsion inset. This is to compliment Jerseyman's 1876 Scott atlas. Only four years seperate them, but there are some differences.

Happy to have brought it to your attention. Good luck with your novel!

Hi Beth, I was wondering if you were aware of a novel written in 1949 by George Agnew Chamberlain entitled "Midnight Boy". It too took place in a fictional nineteenth century industrial town in the Pine-barrens. Also a paper-making settlement, this one however was modeled after Weymouth...