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Gabe: AFAIK, Green Limb Branch still carries that name (look for the red arrow): Yes, there were two forges associated with Hampton: And, as noted above, the lower one is depicted “in ruins” on the 1833 Gordon map. Of course, both of these forges are quite a ways below Green Limb Branch...

Gabe: The “Tunking Mill,” which reportedly takes its name from the sound it made, was probably the stamping mill and forge associated with Hampton Furnace. Boyer notes the earliest mention found of Hampton Furnace appeared in a 1795 deed between Clayton Earl and William Lane and John W...

Spung-Man: Check your OED; the earliest example of “run” as a term for a stream or rivulet in definition no. 9 is 1581. Let's not get too rambunctious here! “We come to fish for the herring fish that live in the beautiful sea, nets of silver and gold have we, said Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod."...

46er: It would not surprise me at all that unspent ordnance still lies within the marsh. About two years ago, an employee with NJDEP contacted me concerning all of the different proving grounds and ranges that once existed within southern New Jersey. He was collaborating with the Army Corps...

KOTP: The cartographic publishing industry refer to these fake or ghost roads as “trap streets” as their purpose is to “trap” any firms or individuals engaging in intentional copyright infringement, as you suggest above. If you use the term as a search string, there are a number of...

46er: The New Jersey Mosquito Control Commission annual report for 1956 referred to this portion of the coastal marshes as “Bombing Range Meadows” and, presumably, the fighters operating out of Warren Grove used this area as a bombing range, especially during the Second World War. This, of...

Boyd: The answer to your “Cannon Range Road” can be found here: http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/ghost-towns-forgotten-places/7184-proposed-devastation-prior-belcoville.html Best regards, Jerseyman

Too bad, Guy, we can’t all find someone to fund our fun instead of our work! All too often the job gets in the way of doing what we really want to do!! Best regards, Jerseyman

Gabe: I remembered the report being online when I was drifting off to sleep. I was going to post the URL this morning, but then I forgot, so I am glad you did so! Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: The Sooy family is tough. Writing in the late 1870s, Leah Blackman stated, I have been unable to learn much about the geneology [sic] of the Sooy family. They do not properly belong to Egg Harbor township. The first generations of the Sooy family made extensive locations of land in...

Gabe: I should have taken the time to read the act in the 1841 pamphlet laws. That would have answered my questions without the need to state them! Since alluvial deposits represent some of the richest soils found, those who sought to restrain the tidal flow could have planted any number...

Gabe: From some preliminary research conducted here in my library, it appears Sooy’s Landing predates the American War for Independence. Adonijah Peacock surveyed 265 acres to Joseph Sooy and Daniel Morss on 8 April 1766 with the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a Sassafras and...

Dogg: Interesting column. I do not recall Levy’s article, but I can tell you he has moved up in the world. After leaving the newspaper, he landed a position with Philadelphia Magazine. Following that stint, he came to New Jersey and founded SJ Magazine. He originally wanted to call it South...

Ben: Not an excerpt per se, but a synoptic history compiled from the following sources: Cushing, M.D., Thomas and Charles E. Sheppard, Esq. 1883 History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland New Jersey…. Everts and Peck, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Everts & Stewart 1876...

Strawberry Vale Ben: Located along the east side of Parkville Station Road and north of the New Jersey Turnpike, farmer Benjamin J. Lord owned this property from the 1830s until his death in September 1888. It is he that named the farm “Strawberry Vale.” Despite his membership in the Society...

Nice sleuthing, gentlemen! Elm lost its 1871 station (constructed by Charles K. Landis’s Vineland Railway) in 1934 when the CNJ elevated the trackage through the area to accommodate a new bridge across the White Horse Pike, then being improved as a major highway route to Atlantic City. The...

Cyanna: I am still checking my sources for this place name, but here is what I can tell you to-date: Parsons Town never had its own post office It does not appear as a toponym in the Scott 1876 atlas of Cumberland County or the earlier 1862 Beers sheet or wall map of the county. The...

http://www.nbc40.net/news/16774/video Best regards, Jerseyman

The next thing you know, Guy, Chase will be sucked into the vortex of Table 9! And there is no returning from that experience: “Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take ya Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama Key LARGO, Montego baby why don’t we go…” Thanks for your kind words! I’m glad you...

ex rep: Thank you for the new information on J.S. Thorn and welcome to the NJ Pine Barrens forums. I appreciate you filling out the story of the company; my source material petered out during the Great Depression, suggesting the company went belly-up, but there is nothing like the first-hand...