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Folks: On this Memorial Day, the most somber and sober Holiday on the American Calendar, please remember that we are duty-bound as citizens of the best nation God ever established to honor those who have fallen on the world’s battlefields for our freedom and to bring liberty to the oppressed...

Folks: I stopped in the Franklin Map Store in Crispin Square last week to purchase a USGS topo quad for my project. In speaking with the manager, he informed me that the Franklin Map Company will be closing the store either at the end of April, when he goes on vacation, or before the end of...

George, Guy and Mike: I love your idea of starting a new thread on the restoration of the Atsion Mansion featuring photos of its restoration along with historic images of the mansion and the village. I’ve decided to kick the thread off with some period shots of the railroad and the icehouse...

“Peter Collinson:– I engag’d an owner of part of Cedar swamp for my Guide without whome I could hardly have found It. Wee travel’d about Twelve Miles beyond the inhabitants over Desarts of sand & such deep mirery Swamps that sometimes both Wee and our Horses had much ado to gett out. The Sand...

Folks: I meant to post this last week from the Courier Post, but I became too busy. Best regards, Jerseyman ASHMEN, REV. CHARLES W. Of Winslow Twp., NJ, age 88, went home to be with the Lord on January 5, 2008. Born in Camden, he was raised in Blackwood Terrace and lived in Colorado...

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-09252007-1413134.html Best regards, Jerseyman

Jim: I decided to create a new thread about Riverview Beach Park. The park's origins can be traced to the Silver Grove Hotel, which the Acton family operated on the grounds in Pennsville from 1883 until 1913. In the latter year, the family formed the Riverview Land Company and the following...

Folks: There are two of the Amatol post cards for sale on ebay: Item nos: 230154534623 230154534384 At the moment, they're sitting at $0.99 with no bids. But, then again, the seller just listed them today. Best regards, Jerseyman

Folks: James Ungehajer contacted me in a PM and inquired about Munion Field. I know that other forum members have expressed some interest in this place, so I decided to post my reply to all. There is very little written on Munion Field. Beck mentions it in his book, Forgotten Towns of...

Folks: Gurbanik contacted me via PM about three weeks ago and inquired about the place name Hockamick. I have been too busy to answer him until now. I told him over this past weekend that I would respond to the whole forum as I think there may be others with an interest. For those who do not...

Folks: I have established a new album containing ten historic photographs taken in the Pine Barrens. Unfortunately, I have no information about where, when, and who took the images and who the people might be in some of the pictures. The paper appears to be albumen paper, which dates the...

Evening Courier (Camden), 7 May 1927, p. 3 [spelling original throughout] Mount Holly, May 7.—Asay Pittman, who resides at Mt. Misery, deep in the pines, and known as a famous snake catcher, had the unusual experience the past few days of catching 28 rattle snakes in five holes. This task...

Folks: By now we all know the story of the Brooksbrae Brick Company and the Wheatland Manufacturing Company works in Pasadena, Ocean County, but what about the human toll associated with the operations and the town of Pasadena? Henry Beck tells the story, perhaps apocryphal, of Bill and...

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...