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Medford Piney: You work in one of my favorite Riverside buildings. I pass it frequently whenever I am headed to Burlington—whether driving or taking the RiverLine!! I have many post cards in my collection of the building under construction. For those who do not know it, this is the office...

Ben: I’ve been to Allaire many times and I LOVE the “Big House” there. Its frame construction reminds of the old Taunton mansion. Allaire and Long Pond Iron Works in Passaic County is as close as New Jersey residents will EVER get to a real, working historic ironworks. In Massachusetts...

Mark and Jay: I knew that NJN had been working on the program and would feature it last evening, but I was just too busy to watch it. However, since I work in a field closely related to historic preservation, I do have my opinions! :) There are a multitude of reasons why New Jersey—both...

:ninja: :ninja: :ninja: Thanks, Bob! I appreciate your confidence in me!! :eng101: Frankly, if the brick remained whole and its ends still featured the maker’s code number, we might be able to determine when the works produced the brick. Remember, however, that the bricks made at this...

Anytime, Ben—anytime. Just let me know what works for you and I’ll “book” you for a visit! Best regards, Jerseyman

“This is not a drill...” Folks: Here is a color image of a Bomarc test launch: Best regards, Jerseyman

Jim: Nice report on your trip and I’m glad you made it Winslow Junction. While most folks not familiar with local railroad operations would not readily recognize the significance of the Tex-Mex coach, it is a former Pennsylvania Railroad P70 coach, a once very common sight on the rails in and...

Mark: Since you do not have any historical maps of Warren County, here is a detail from the Pahaquarry Township plate in the 1874 F.W. Beers atlas of Warren County: For a version you can enlarge, go directly to this link...

Mark: Nice find!! The photographs you posted clearly depict a lime kiln—a ubiquitious artifact of Warren County’s agrarian past. Lime burners called the hole at the bottom the eye and constructed the kiln with a grate installed just above the eye. Workers would charge the kiln from the top...

Be careful here, my friend! While the Valentine family DID begin digging clay and burning brick in 1843, the firm of M.D. Valentine and Brothers did not start its operations until 1865. The company formally incorporated in 1892 with the New Jersey Secretary of State. When the company first...

oji: Here is some additional information about Little Pine Mill: In 1859, the Burlington County Orphans Court ordered the sale of all real estate of Arney Lippincott, deceased. Lot no. 5, to be sold on the seventh day of the sale—the seventeenth day of Twelfth Month, December, next—was the...

Gabe: I did look at the 1930 (actually 1931) flyover image. My first impression of the cultivation there at the site of where the bog later appeared, is a large-scale blueberry production facility, based on the striations I see present. It would make sense to convert blueberry fields into...

Folks: I do not have any definitive information on who constructed this bog or exactly when, but I can tell you that it is a bog built in the twentieth century and probably in the late 1930s or during the 1940s. In 1885, the area did not provide any hints of a bog: However, by 1949...

Mark: As someone who does earn his beans from writing on a daily basis, I have a deep appreciation for others who write well and enjoy it in the process! In creative writing, I enjoy composing poetry and short stories. Although I seldom have the opportunity for writing with a creative flair...

Steve: That would be the one!! Writing on the fly with just my memory for navigation, I believe that G.M. Hopkins’s mother was a Morgan—or was it his grandmother? I will check my file on Mr. Hopkins and get back to you a little later. Best regards, Jerseyman

Good suggestion, Tom!! You will have to forgive my sometimes myopic and provincial thinking processes. I did not immediately think of Allaire because it is in the more northern extent of the Pine Barrens and it is also—*gasp*—in Monmouth County, EAST JERSEY!! :) A most excellent choice...

Mark: Yes, they have some real quality reproductions of historic maps—both local, national, and even international! Franklin Map has an interesting history. Back in about 1930, the Franklin Survey Company, forerunner of Franklin Map, bought out G.M. Hopkins & Company, one of the most...

oji: The only source that comes immediately to mind is the 1978 (?) Burlington County architectural survey completed by Connie Greiff and her staff. You will find the three or four volumes of this survey at the Burlington County Library on Woodlane Road in Westampton in the New Jersey Room...

Guy: I can just imagine what Whippoorbill could do with this image!!!! :) Reminds me of a scene from the old Bonanza television show! Best regards, Jerseyman

Mark: Nice bit of prose there, sir! However, I think you mean paper factory and not glass factory if you are writing about Harrisville. I agree—the story there at Harrisville is compelling, like many other Pine Barren enterprise centers that lived and died through exploitation of the...