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Has anyone walked the old road that started at Hampton Furnace (right next to the bridge on the big clearing side - not the ruins side) and headed out to Hampton Gate. 20 years ago you could drive about halfway back before it just faded into a foot path. I haven't tried it since. You can...

The old house I live in (1840's) was purchased by my parents in the 70's as they hoped to retire there (my dad always wanted chickens). I remember visiting it for the first time and we came in off of Carranza Road. I can't remember what Dingletown (Forked Neck) road was like but I vividly...

John Pearce advances some thoughts about Jemima Mount in his "Heart of the Pines". In my addition (2000) it is on page 747. He also suggests that the nearby site of Cramer's Mount Tavern may have been named after the hill you visited on Sunday. I once saw in an old census from Washington...

I'm kinda surprised you saw alot of hunters out on Sunday. Wonder if some were non-hunters wearing orange to be safe and didn't realize there is no hunting on Sundays.

To any of you Medford types. Next time you drive down Fairview Road, remember that at one time it used to diverge from the current road which turns into Gravelly Hollow and headed through what is now the Tamarac developement. Eventually it connected with Jackson Road way down by Sherwood...

Guy What a cool photo. A few years from now there may be no traces left. I have always had trouble taking pictures of such subtleties in the landscape. That shot really captures it. Great job. Rich

Another one I had thought of was Flyat Road out of downtown Tabernacle. It never quite makes it to Flyat anymore. I remember a few years back (before they built the houses there) you could look north east from the intersection of Tuckerton and Oakshade and see the dip in the treeline where the...

I always thought it got a little hairy between Washington and Stage Road. No bridge at Bodines. Is Ridge Road out of Wading River passable all the way to 536?

Have you ever noticed how some roads are named for places that they once went to but no longer reach? For example, In Shamong and Tabernacle there is a road called Oakshade Road. It passes the old villages of Dellet (at Atsion Road), continues to Small's (Indian Mills Road) then on to Flyat...

In an address to the American Cranberry Growers' Association, Rider mentioned that Burlington County was the leading producer of cranberries in the state then went on to say that it was just about the only thing good that could be said about the county. He criticized the corrupt government that...

I don't think that Rider had anything to do with those bogs that are adjacent to 206. They stretch from right behind the Pic-a-Lilli all the way out to East Stokes Road. It is my understanding that all of those bogs there were not owned by the same person. The Abrams family owned many of them...

I've read a number of accounts of the incident and was always under the impression that the event took place on Hampton Road (the one just North of the ranger station). A little more than halfway to Hampton the road does a little turn and I always thought that site matched the descriptions I...

These are the cranberry picker tickets that were associated with the Chatsworth Club property. Jonathan Godfrey was president and may have run the bogs for the Prince. The bogs were sold in 1940 to Albert Stevenson and Anthony DeMarco. Very shortly thereafter, DeMarco bought out the Stevenson...

The above scan is of a 1903 postcard showing the Chatsworth Club. The inscription reads "March 8, Dear Evelyn, What do you think of Chatsworth I have marked our rooms. With Love ?" Just above the 8 is a small "X" that shows the room that he/she stayed in.

It is not terribly unusual to see deer that have significant white coloration like that shown in your picture. I have heard of ones seen that are almost completely white. I guess it is just a natural variation. Some hunters I've talked to have passed on shooting such a deer. I suppose its...

I have some notes somewhere that mention which side of the lake that the Club House was located but if I had to guess I want to say that it was on the side closest to "downtown" chatsworth. I have a post card that was postmarked in 1903 that shows the Club House. I will try to get it scanned...

I was in Franklin Maps in Marlton and saw it about a month ago. I heard about it months ago but didn't think it was coming out until this fall. Plexus is the publisher and a copy can be picked up in their Medford office (I bought one there for my dad).

Has anyone else picked up Flemming's book "Brotherton". I read it straight through and found much of the information/photos to be quite interesting.

Dave, Just yesterday I was looking through some old records and next to Joe Palmer's name it says "see Gosler" so he may very well have come into ownership of the Gossler Bogs around 1940. I wonder how far past 1960 Palmer continued to farm. Also, the name of Palmer's business at the time...

Like you, I am fascinated by the cranberry industry in New Jersey. There really is no comprehensive source of information on the subject. Paul Eck wrote a good book but didn't really touch (if I remember correctly) on many of the individual bogs or the owners. I have been accumulating...