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Bob, I still think if we did a scale model furnace and smelted some bog ore we could get The History Channel onboard. Well, maybe we would have to add in something about prophecy and doom, but other than that I think they would go for it.

Excellent, Spung Man, thanks! That really puts it into perspective. Once you see the drawing the outline of the remains on the postcard makes a lot of sense. Jerseyman, thanks a ton for a really illuminating image. I've visited the site a couple of times and now it makes so much more sense.

Wow, what a trip. I feel for those people whose yards and docks were swept clean. I haven't read far enough to know if Bob has that specific fear, but I have a variation on it. I have always been afraid of water works: water flowing over a dam, through a culvert, hydro stations, etc. It's...

I enjoy that area as well. One goal that I haven't accomplished yet is to explore the site of the town, which is a little southeast of the plant area.

I like to go upstream as well. Then you get to relax on the return trip. Guy, that was quite a hole. That video may actually save my life someday :).

It's a very good idea indeed. Jerseyman, the remarkable thing for me in this post is the description of the layers removed in the digging of the well. 155 feet if I read it correctly. What technology would they have used to dig through 95 feet of sand in 1890? Would this have been drilled...

I think all those people are depressed because of the tension between loving the state and having to pay through the nose to live here.

Merry Christmas, and best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year to all my friends here!

That's just... I don't think it's going too far to say that anyone who could do that and drive off has something missing in the head department. It would have been far more merciful to euthanize the little guy than to dump him out there in the snow to starve or become prey. Well done, Ed...

Yes indeed, welcome! You will endear yourself to the entire community by posting pictures as soon as is convenient :).

Very cool video, Pancoast. I share one of your commenters' amazement at your shooting while crossing that brook on the board :). Did I see a handrail nailed up to the tree on the far side?

I guess it just sounded like a larger project than I see evidence for in the woods surrounding Atsion.

That was my favorite line as well. Thanks for the post, Jerseyman!

Agreed. Here is how I prepare scrapple: I remove it from the package, divide it in two, give one piece to each dog, then throw some nice sausage in a pan for me :).

Anyone else interested by the reference to a land company opening up avenues and streets through the "30,000" acres surrounding Atsion? Looking at the aerials you don't see the evidence of that in the same way you do at the site of other failed real estate ventures that have left their geometric...

That was the most interesting part of it for me, along with the description of Martha, where as far as I can tell no chimney stacks are now to be found. There are a few bits of brick and whatnot at Munyon Field, collected into a circle for campfires. I wish I had seen these sites as those...

Wow, great images Pancoast. I would love to see the pines like that, but by the time I make it down there after a snow the wind has usually done it's job.

Nice work, Pine Baron. I'm curious about the then-and-now of the American Hotel. Could the ground floor have changed that much, or did the artist take liberties? Did they get rid of that side door and double the number of windows in that wall?

Missiles often spiral out of control when they fail, in exactly that pattern. The wider spiral glow is the water vapor and gasses ejected in the exhaust stream, which was pointing away from the center of the spiral. Occams Razor rules the day :). It's clear as a bell in that video. You...

I agree with Bob, those wall remnants are well over a century, really as old as anything I've seen in the barrens... in fact they look pretty much as old as anything I've seen in New Jersey.