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Last night on the wading river bridge

Hey Bob, remember that old tire we found we were bushwhacking out off of Route 70? How was showing you where I saw that huge snapping turtle. We were bushwhacking back and we found a tire that we guessed was from the 1920s.

That looks like the right spot though the vegetation

I think I found an old international back there. I think I showed it to you. I tried to re-find it with Monica, but was unsuccessful.

I wonder if that old upside down iRock out by old halfway is still around

As the two of you know I work for the county and I was doing some work on the beaver run bridge. I set off into the woods towards the wading river and found the remains of a causeway over beaver run. I meant to return later but never did. Beaver run and beaver branch are often confused. Beaver...

Nice work, Bob!

Wow! Great work Guy. I think you found it.

In 2015 the MAP was defeated based on lack of public or stakeholder input. In this newest situation, the state has provided ample opportunity for public input. However, despite a response that could be interpreted as leaning toward few road closures, we find that the extent of closures is very...

Piney Warden is completely correct, and he should know.

Nice post and nice discoveries. I am looking forward to seeing where these cellar holes are. I know of a grassy area on the Camden side of the old mill that I always suspected was the town center. It is common in cranberry bogs to have a series of canals that transport and bypass water...

Do we have a date on the cranberry operations there? I might have missed it.

Okay, interesting observation and lends credence to an alternative to my “water diversion for bog iron” theory. It is so tremendously typical to to have layers of different industries on top of each other. Making it far more difficult to decipher what was going on there. However, I can’t figure...

I’ve seen loam ore and seed ore, mostly loam, along the river banks along the mullica opposite the canal. There is documentation that at least during the Drinker era of Atsion furnace they would open the dam to drain Atsion lake for the purpose of bog iron extraction along the original river...

Definitely an unexpected spot.

Nice contribution Spungman. On the 1854 map; is there any depiction of another mill pond upstream from the one illustrated? I suspect there isn’t which would further support my theory that the upper most “mill” is a water diversion apparatus. Additionally, is Goshen pond campground depicted as a...

Structure spanning the width of the river is indicative of a dam so possibly a mill site. Or just a means of diverting the water. They would have had to have a pretty robust dam there to divert the water to the canal. Any indication of a pond having been above the dam? Given the length of the...

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So, the canal diversion could have been seasonal. Just in the winter when the mills weren’t running. There must have been significant iron in that stretch. I wonder if lowering the water also aided in repair work to the mill components and the canal allowed easier passage for bog iron boats ...