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Folks: While conducting some research today for an address I am making a week from this Sunday, I discovered these two articles, spaced one week apart in December 1857, about poor Peggy Clevenger. I thought you would enjoy reading them as I did: A TERRIBLE AFFAIR. We learn that the dwelling...

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/courierpostonline/obituary.aspx?n=pickett-b-russell&pid=154412534 Requiescat in pace. With sympathy, Jerseyman

Folks: For those of you who would like to add Leah Blackman's epic history and genealogy of Little Egg Harbor Township to their library, here is your opportunity...

Folks: In conducting my research into the dam and lock at Locks Bridge, I came across some interesting material that did not quite fit into the Locks Bridge thread, but I still want to share with you all. Once you construct an iron furnace, you need three basic ingredients to produce pigs or...

TED GORDON Pine Barrens Historian, Botanist, Photographer, Guide 609-859-3566 pbitgordon@aol.com Used publications (many of them hard to find) will be made available at Lines-on-the Pines (March 13, 2011) or by arrangement. This is a unique opportunity for those just starting out to...

Folks: Due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, the location for the upcoming LINES ON THE PINES event has moved to the Frog Rock in Hammonton. This location places LINES more equidistant for most people. The food at the dinner will be served buffet-style and will please all attendees, I...

Folks: It has been a while since I posted anything of interest, so I thought you would all enjoy the following article, dating to the turn of the twentieth century. I suspect the Nimrods among us will revel in this story about a hunting party from the past on Barnegat Bay. Best regards...

Folks: Would everyone who plans to attend the dinner at Lines on the Pines this year please PM me concerning the menu. Thanks! Best regards, Jerseyman

ARE HARVESTING SNAKES. Novel Industry Which is Proving Profitable to New Jersey People. Mount Holly, N.J.—Selling pine snakes is a pastime at which more money can be made than gathering moss or killing foxes. In this industry a large number of persons are engaged in the pines at Chatsworth...

RELICS OF BYGONE DAYS. New Methods Responsible for Deserted Homes and Villages in Parts of New Jersey. In driving through certain portions of the townships of Washington and Bass river, says a Mount Holly (N.J.) dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean, one is struck by the number of deserted homes...

Folks: Pinelandpaddler and I will be heading to the Burlington County Courthouse on Monday, 14 June 2010, so I can teach him the rudiments of conducting a real property title search. I can accommodate a few other nascent researchers at the same time who would like to learn the basics of how...

The North American (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Friday, 16 June 1893, page 6. A SNAKE’S DEADLY COIL The Life of a Child Crushed Out by a Large Reptile. THE LITTLE ONE’S SLEEP OF DEATH To Secure the Body of the Babe It Was Necessary to Sever the Body of the Monster. Special Dispatch to...

Mary Ann Forge The Mary Ann Forge has always been somewhat enigmatic for those who enjoy poking around the more obscure locations in the Pine Barrens. While many of you have read what Charles Boyer wrote about this location, for those who have not, I quote what he wrote about Mary Ann from...

Folks: We are only a few days away from the annual “Lines on the Pines” event and I would urge all of you to come to Egg Harbor City and enjoy the exhibits, conversations with the authors and artists, and meeting and mingling with like-minded Pine Barrens devotees!! Come out and enjoy—there...

Folks: In looking for some other prose, I came across this fine Pine Barrens ballad written in 1916 and thought I would share it with you. In some ways, it reads like a modern-day country-and-western song, but I think you will enjoy the localisms contained within it. THE BUNTY* SHOE (A...

Ætna Furnace, Tuckahoe Folks: I just received a recent acquisition from ebay and I thought I would share it with all of you: Best regards, Jerseyman

Folks: Here is a short account of a trip to Edgepillock or Brotherton in 1892 by the famous “J.W.” All spelling and grammar retained in this transcription from the original published account. Extracted from The Friend, Vol. LXVI, No. 6, Seventh-Day, Ninth Month 3, 1892, pages 46-47 and Vol...

Folks: A year before the United States entered the First World War, the Bethlehem Steel Company quietly purchased vast quantities of land southwest of Mays Landing for building a new proving ground. When the country did declare war, Bethlehem altered its plans and constructed BELCOville...

Folks: Although this is the transcript of a legal proceeding, I thought the subject matter might be enough to interest you in reading it. It provides some interesting details about McCartyville and its paper mill. Extracted from Reports of Cases Determined in The Court of Chancery, and in...

Folks: Here is a 1905 account of the Jewish settlements in Southern New Jersey: Extracted from: The Russian Jew in the United States : Studies of Social Conditions in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, with a Description of Rural Settlements. Planned and edited by Charles S. Bernheimer...