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An earlier post on this thread inspired me to put these up. Any ideas? Perhaps someone may be able to tell me what originally stood here as I have always been curious.

This Otley and Whiteford map has always interested me. Does it suggest that there was a place called Union? If so, how big an area did it include? There doesn't seem to be much evidence for a village in the area (just a collection of farms). The Union School House is a little more that half a...

Also from the New Jersey Mirror (Jan 29, 1913) . . . said farm being designated in said will as the "Carmely Farm,"(sic.) and which in the deed from Thomas Carmely and wife to Ezekiel Wright, bearing date the fifth day of January, 1851, . . . . is bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING...

I believe that Jerseyman’s “educated guess” is spot on. It was that New Jersey Mirror article that first made me aware of a place called Taylorstown. The area around Tabernacle (or The Tabernacle) was thick as thieves with Taylors in times past. Narrowing down the exact spot has proven...

What would we do without "The Trail of the Blue Comet"? Mead seems to have been a lumber merchant from Glassboro in the early 1900's. He purchased 7000 acres near there and erected a mill in 1906. Apparently he already owned a mill near Cumberland at the time. Later he became Sheriff of...

I have very much enjoyed following this thread. The billhead is amazing! Surly Ed must be correct about the area getting its name from the geography of the place. Finding an exact location for Sandy Ridge would be like picking one single place to call the Forked River Mountains or The Jackson...

There were three such "duck houses" from the same era that existed on Story Island in the bay behind Beach Haven and Holgate. In the aerial footage of the storm damage at Tuckerton Beach they panned over to Long Beach Island. Story Island is supposed to be there in the middle of the bay. The...

The covered well is still visible if you look in the lower windows. I assume that it must have had a large wooden tank up toward the top from which the water was "gravity fed" for the house and farm.

I had come across a few things years ago while researching the property. In the beginning of 1935 Evans and Wills (owners of the extensive Friendship tract) sold 61.49 acres to J. Garfield Alloway who was the primary manager of the Friendship cranberry bogs for many years. I believe that the...

On the subject of the Tuckerton Road, old deeds from Bass River Township call the "Tuckerton Road" the "old north road to Philadelphia". It makes sense doesn't it? When you are closer to Philadelphia, the road runs to Tuckerton. When you are down by the shore, the road goes to Philadelphia...

Seneca High School sits on the old Foxchase Tavern site of Hosea Moore. The tennis courts are in the general area of where the tavern once stood. The entrance to the school is actually a public road that once went to Friendship (the saw mill village not the cranberry bog village) and is known...

We have heard all about the Tuckerton Road. How about the Manahawkin Road? A few years ago I started a thread about all the roads that no longer reach their namesake. For example, Oak Shade Road in Tabernacle no longer makes it to the old village of Oak Shade which once existed along route...

Hey Guy, how have you been?

A buddy and I did that exact same trip not two weeks ago. It has been a few years since I had been down the Mullica and you are right - it is truly a beautiful river. I was surprised by all the beaver dams as I never remember there being so many. The low water afforded some terrific views of...

The canal was apparently built shortly after Joe Palmer took over the cranberry bogs from George Gossler in 1940 (Gossler was his wife's uncle). It was said to be 1300 feet long and was built sometime before 1946. Palmer built a block pump house at the end of the canal that feeds the upper end...

Reeves Reeves Bogs (once known as Bear Hole) was started right around 1900 by William H. Reeves who cut the cedar and developed to bogs. The glory days of Reeves Bogs was probably the '20's and '30's. Apparently there were 150 acres of cranberries there at one time. William Reeves died in...

How sad that people can't just let things be. I never thought those stones were particularly attractive for a rock garden or wall anyway. They clearly are not native to South Jersey. I had heard that the timbers for that packing house were salvaged from the dismantled buildings of the...

Pheasant Moor The Hutchinson family (from the Georgetown area) owned bogs out in that area of Fort Dix. They had a small village there that they called Pheasant Moor. A decendant of the family once drew me a map of the settlement which was nothing more that a house or two, a saw mill, and...

Guy, I have a little bit of information on a Corliss family from the Waretown area. They owned cranberry bogs and various members were named Arthur, Eugene, Leroy, and Stogton. They probably own these bogs in the early 1900's. Regarding the Cox family. They owned cranberry bogs in the...

As you cross the "dam" there is a rise on the right. The site may have been a little further from the lake than you explored but still not far. The remains are much closer to the road that crosses the dam than they are to the open area you photographed. I don't know if the open area was a...