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Trailhead00: I checked all of the normal place name sources—including both of Bisbee’s books—without success. While localized place names certainly exist without proper recordation, I think in this case it is as I wrote earlier: a private picnic grove for traveling motorists. Best regards...

LMCFashions: I suspect that “Davis Grove” is not a geographical place name per se; rather, it is the name of a privately owned picnic grove adjacent to the filling station. This is why the name does not appear on any New Jersey maps and why I initially thought the facility stood in...

Guy: Here is my mapping from c.1935 and this will show you what I am talking about: Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: Between the Fleming Pike crossing of the Albertson Branch on the south and the Camden & Atlantic Railroad on the north, Wharton owned 268 acres on the west side of Pump Branch and 238 acres between Pump Branch and Wharton Avenue according to the mapping I have here, excepting out the two...

George: I have nothing but a somewhat educated conjecture to run on here, but based on a review of the 1931 aerials (greatly enlarged!), I am wondering if Springtown was once a hamlet contaning a shack or two for the cranberry pickers. I note one or maybe two rectilinear structures with an...

Scott: Thanks for the kind words! You and I have already had some private conversations on the origins of Pestletown as a place name, so we will let that sleeping dog lie. Regarding the bogs along the Pump Branch (originally the Pump Brook), they apparently did not exist there in 1877. Only a...

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Best regards, Jerseyman

Bob: Those Gilbarco gas pumps in Guy’s photograph with the stainless steel skirts date to the late 1960s or early 1970s. Best regards, Jerseyman

LMCFashions: If you can provide me with the full name of your husband’s great-grandfather, it might help me further track down the location of “Davis Grove.” Thanks! Best regards, Jerseyman

LMCFashions (and Guy): After spending well over an hour pouring over numerous maps and checking many, many references, I have concluded that the location you seek is in Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania—and probably along the Old York Road there. The Willow Grove Naval Air...

Extremely fine fieldwork, Guy, Al, and Jessica! You followed in Elnathan’s footsteps very well! I must say—you folks really have “stones”!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Best regards, Jerseyman

Bob: In fond memory of Dick Martin and his never-ending sources of humor, I humbly submit the following Laugh-In parody: Soffit to me…Soffit to me…Soffit to me…Soffit to me :) :) :) Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: Yes, you absolutely must get dirty to see the full scope of things there at Iron Mill. Although I have not completed the deed research to confirm it, I suspect that when the Vineland Railway purchased its right-of-way through this vicinity, beginning in 1867, the railroad acquired the...