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Exactly. Same effect up at... Hanson, is it? Just east of Woodmansie road, and again at the big sand pit north of Forked River. You can see it in a number of places. Clay pits tend to show up tourquoise or aquamarine.

Welcome to the site. I think you'll find that you're preaching to the choir here, but it's certainly a worthwhile sermon :).

I drive by old "Bert" the eagle just about every day :).

Thanks, Jerseyman. The name of Mr. D'guinee has popped up in my reading before. I look forward to continuing our discussion.

Thanks, Ben. I'll have a look for it tonight. That plate happens to be the one that covers Washington Twp, where I live.

Thanks, Jerseyman. I'd love to see whatever you have. My information also indicates that the first church was built on the same site, and of wood, and I have seen references indicating the construction was of logs. A number of sources state that the first group of Reformed Lutherans arrived in...

Very cool :). Thanks for the translations. I guess they probably meant something like "Here rests in peace..."

Wow, lucky. That's a scary experience. I'm sure you were belted in, but at high speeds you never know. Glad it worked out.

Ah, Kleehaus, that makes some sense. Right before Arnold is "der Leib des", so I'm still thinking it was his wife. Do you think that's right? I learned a tiny bit of German on two or three visits to Munich, and promptly forgot it all.

It's interesting how differently they have fared across the space. Some of the stones are granite, or gneiss, not sure which, one or two might be marble, and the majority are iron-bearing sandstone. I took some pics of one stone, dating to 1835 (Margaret, widow of Matthias, Flock, the family for...

Awesome pics, Jeff. I especially like the shot of gum tree falls.

I'm not exactly sure, Enoch. It was described as being "in an antiquated condition" by Barber and Howe in 1846. A wooden Lutheran church erected in 1832 stands across Schooley Mountain Rd. from the old Union Church, which I presume was built to replace it.

Permit me to divert your attention northward for a brief moment. The old Union Church sits crumbling into ruin in a bend of Fairview Avenue, a stone's throw from Schooley's Mountain Rd., in Long Valley. Built in 1774, it replaced an earlier structure that legend (and some historical references)...

I noticed that in the downloadeable maps section of the forum, in the George Cook Atlas, sheets 2 and 3 are the same. Sheet 3 is the one that is in error, as it should cover an area further east... which happens to be an area I'm interested in. Anyone know where I can get the scan of sheet 3...

Given that there is nobody alive who committed an offense, and nobody alive who was the victim of one, I think the whole thing is rather silly, personally. I also think the idea that an apology for slavery is required of a northern state that sent 88,000 men to battle in the war that ended...

A much better use for this thread :). Many happy returns of the day, Sue.

We apologized for slavery? I'm outa here. I think the shrinking is caused by many things, and overall is part of a general shift south and west by increasingly old boomers like myself. I'm staying up here where the water is, personally.

LIP, Ben is giving good advice. You're aware of some of the research that employers are doing now, right? It's rather controversial, but it ain't going to stop as long as dumbass kids keep posting pictures of themselves drinking belly shots on Myspace. It's easier than you might think to stitch...

I bet they are proofreading it in cyrillic before it gets translated :).

LIP, on the one hand I think you set this up yourself, but on the other I think someone else did it to yank your chain, maybe even a member. I could hop proxies to Portland any time I want. I give you the benefit of the doubt, so my advice is to be more skeptical in the future. The Internet is...