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Piney Boy: I do understand your feelings concerning Frank Stewart, despite my misgivings about his writings. As with many of the antiquarians of past generations, we all owe a great debt of gratitude to Stewart. He was a trailblazer for those of us who maintain a high level of interest in...

Piney Boy: I hope you did take umbrage at my response to your posting, but I always try to be honest about problematic secondary and tertiary source material, especially for folks who are not as well-versed in a topic as some. Mr. Stewart does have his share of problems, as do several other...

Folks: Last night I sent a private message to Furball and indicated a single, siccinct source for him to examine that includes the most important map of the campaign. I hesitated to post it to the entire list because of I was not sure all would be interested. However, since Piney Boy listed a...

Very interesting information, Furball. Your grandparents resided near the site of "Little Bridge," the span that carried the Old Salem Road over Little Timber Creek. The swale formed by the road can still be seen from Lake Drive coming up from the creek. Before the Hessians departed to...

Piney Boy: Your thread topic certainly caught my attention and your project sounds like a good one. I have had a similar project on my radar screen for years, but I may never get to it, so I am glad that you are undertaking it! The primary burial ground for the Hessians who died during the...

WAMBA: I think you may be misinterpreting the term "cave" in this context. These are not natural caves. Many of the early settlers in West Jersey arrived late in the year and had little time to erect permanent shelter for themselves and their families. To gain temporary shelter against the...

Ebsi: While there were several New Jersey maps published in atlases during 1834, I think the one that The Right Reverend refers to is the map included with Thomas Gordon's 1834 Gazetteer of New Jersey. It seems most plausible that Beck would have used this map and the accompanying volume in...

At one time, all of the bridges had painted/stenciled numbers applied to them. Sometimes on the retaining walls and sometimes on the girder or stringer, depending on the bridge style. You can often find the remnants of these numbers on the bridge. They might be white numbers on a black...

Guy: The "number" assigned to each bridge corresponds to mileage. While the point of origination for mileage changed once or twice during the history of the line, the most recent point of origination was the Central Railroad of New Jersey terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey. However, the...

To give you a better idea of the number of lines built and planned through the Pinelands, I have scanned and uploaded a map from John Brinckmann's book, The Tuckerton Railroad. You can view that from the Gallery page. Jerseyman

daved: There were once many more railroads that traversed the Pines than exist today. The earliest was the Delaware & Atlantic Railroad, which operated between Browns Point (Roebling) and near Hanover Furnace. Plans called for the line to be extended to a deepwater port on the coast, but the...

Steve: You are definitely "right-on" with the translation of the first line of Latin. The second line translate: Mindful of God, grateful to friends Jerseyman

Piney Boy: You are referring to the Camden County institutional facility at Lakeland in Gloucester Township. The governmental complex here dates to December 1800, when Old Gloucester County purchased land along Timber Creek for establishing an almshouse, although they failed to construct the...

Dave: That would be one Eric Sloane--a fine author and artist who made it his calling to record folkways and technological methodologies from the past. I have his books in my library as well! Jerseyman

As I recall, the Foxfire series is up to volume 13 or 14. The series is a must for anyone wanting to understand folkways and the rise of rural technologies. The anecdotal style of presentation in these volumes make them a dream to read and you would be hard-pressed to gain the education that...

LARGO: Actually, a properly constructed brick and/or stone foundation is a substantial and solid base for attaching engines and/or machinery. When I worked on the Raritan & Delaware Bay Railroad Lakehurst locomotive shop archaeological excavation back in the mid-1980s, the stationary boiler...

Thanx, Guy! I've been away too long and its good to be back. I see some old friends are now posting messages here, so I must say "hello" to George (LARGO from Pestletown), who greeted me warmly on Sunday a week ago. Jerseyman

Folks: This is a very interesting discussion and I enjoyed reading each and every post. Based on the variety of foundations found, combined with documentary sources, you could begin to establish time periods for these foundations based on their construction technique. Portable sawmills have...

Absolutely! My intention of posting the manuscript map was to provide a yet another view from the nineteenth century. I thought others would find the communities and side roads of interest. To tell you the truth, I totally missed your descriptive text material that accompanied your map and it...

BobM: Sorry I did not mark the map to indicate Tuckerton Road--I just thought everyone would recognize it. Here is an annotated copy of the map that shows Tuckerton Road in red: If you have a modern Burlington County map, this road would begin at the western county line as County Route...