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Folks: Of the proposed developments at Atsion, Fruitland came first. In 1862, William C. Patterson acquired the northern half of the Atsion tract and four years later incorporated the Fruitland Improvement Company. He planned to develop a sugar plantation on the property and intended to plant...

TeeGate: In conducting a bit of research for you I discovered that the company you referenced in Pennsylvania did not incorporate until the early 1940s. However, I think the firm that owned Howardsville might be this one: Penn Produce Company, 418 Henderson Street, Jersey City, New Jersey...

Mike: I'm glad you enjoyed the discussion about Rev War activity in the Camden and Gloucester county area. Please post your impressions of the Old Salem Road after placing your feet upon its well worn pathway. There are many other sections, now unused, of this ancient roadway, along with other...

Ben: I absolutely concur with your rule regarding specific site locations, but in this case, the state already identified the location with a plaque erected in the 1920s. Furthermore, other than standing on the road itself, there is nothing at this location in a current state of fragility...

Scott and Steve: The Helis Stock Farm was once the Rancocas Stud Farm of Pierre Lorillard, a man who amassed a fortune from tobacco and other enterprises. He raised some of the nation's finest racehorses at this farm and spared no expense in outfitting the farm with comforts and conveniences...

Guy: Looking at historic 15-minute USGS topo quads, I see the West Jersey Cranberry Meadows north of Goshen along the Mullica, but based on the advertisement, the Sorden Bogs were definitely over towards Dingletown. Best regards, Jerseyman

Jeff: Thanks for the information about Bill Pittman. If you ever get to meet him, let me know and I will share photocopies of the Bible's contents if you think he'd be interested! Best regards, Jerseyman

Ben: I think you are correct in your assertion, but there is some tantalizing inuendo--I would not even classify it as evidence--that the manufactory may have operated for a relatively short period of time, hence I wrote my statement worded the way I did. Best regards, Jerseyman

Oriental: I suspect your journal, which, by the way, sounds fascinating, is from the Sorden farm. Here is a newspaper notice from 22 November 1905: By virtue of an order to sell real estate to pay debts of the estate of John H. Sorden, deceased, issued out of the Orphans' Court of...

Funny you should ask, Ben. The person selling the Bible was an antique dealer out of Allentown, New Jersey. I had already planned to email him to learn how he acquired it. It would be great to assemble the provenance for the volume and trace it back to the family. I'll let you know. Best...

Well, Woodjin, to go even farther off-topic, two nights ago I won on ebay the family Bible of arguably Upton's most famous resident--Asa Pittman! I can't wait to take a look at it and see the family recordings in it as well as other items that Asa may have laid in the Bible. I'll let you know...

Folks: While conducting research today, I found this interesting item in a 6 March 1918 newspaper: Whatever hope remained of the government being able to utilize the Hanover Farmstract, between Whitesbog and Whitings for the great new munitions plant which it was at first proposed to locate...

Guy: Bullock's given name was Anthony and he first established the stop along the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1885 to ship cranberries. Best regards, Jerseyman

ebsi: The Central Railroad of New Jersey milepost for Pasadena station was 76.4 (a distance measured from the CNJ's terminal in Jersey City). Bullock station stood at 77.7 and Woodmansie at 79.2. Bullock was a freight-only station erected in 1885 and razed in 1926. Best regards, Jerseyman

Folks: Narrow-gauge locomotives such as those that A.A. Adams used to haul clay from Old Half Way to Woodmansie (the ties of which Beck described driving on in Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey) were often known as dinkys or dinkeys, but never donkeys or mules. A donkey or mule is a...

ebsi: According to Howe's 1887-88 Burlington County Directory, Joseph F. Bryan was a Justice of the Peace residing in Vincentown, of all places!! Best regards, Jerseyman

Thanks, Guy, for making those filed plan images available to gopher and others interested in the subject. Best regards, Jerseyman

After suffering a financial reversal, Charles Read sold his Atsion Iron works to Henry Drinker and Abel James during March 1773. Henry Drinker’s wife, Elizabeth Drinker, records her first visit to the ironworks in her diary. The family spent the night of 11 April 1773 in Moorestown before...

Ebsi: Quite the piece of doggerel!! How about something a little closer to home called "That Vincentown Train" written by Joe Bryan, Esq. in 1889: That Vincentown Train Did you ever ride on that Vincentown train, No! Well, I cannot refrain, and so I'll explain How we go out...

LARGO: I think the spelling variations stem from "ear-conditioning," but the name along the Mullica does refer to the Biblical location and not a reference to an individual or a family. Best regards, Jerseyman