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Uploaded the photos to my Flickr Page. Link to the set is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinhooa/sets/72157619648109049/ Kind of difficult to really see the size of this place, so I may try and go back at night to illuminate it with flashes. Or at least on a cloudy day so there's less...

Yeah, I know. Doh! I realized that after I looked it up to double check and by the time I looked it up I couldn't edit my post. All well. Thanks for the update PLP.

Mtns Thanks for the hill info Guy. I've actually mapped out every hill and "mountain" from Cape May to a little above Trenton. After reading about them in Becks book I got hooked and tried to find a lot of them. But I'm sure I'll still go over that list and check some of them. Some I'm sure...

So in the past year or so I've been checking out a lot of hills and "mountains" in the pines using an atlas and gazetteer. I've been meaning to check out Jemima Mount for a while and had the opportunity on Sunday. Wow, what a neat place. As with most hills and rises in the pines usually things...

Harrisville has some pretty sizable sandstone walls. The chimney at Atsion, and the second paper mill at Weymouth are also of brick and sandstone. A lot of the mill buildings at Batsto are stucco coated Sandstone and I'm sure there are many, many others. The old stone village house on Old Egg...

It's kind of funny that small (Irish?) graveyard is listed but the one next to the church isn't. Maybe it was a given that a church had a graveyard next to it and didn't need to be listed. Kevin

I had heard/read that some of the homes were moved to Elwood, but I couldn't tell you which ones. It would have been a relatively easy move with the rail line going through Amatol's town and then down to the AC line. I've read about railroads being able to move just about using old ties, rails...

I heard there had been a sign located on the road that runs from Nesco to Elwood but it was either stolen or removed years ago. And I guess there's no point putting up another one if someone is just going to steal it again (if that's what happened anyway.) But in a way, it just makes it more of...

Awesome story Jerseyman. That was very informative and quite a journey into the past. I'm sure it was quite crazy in that day when you didn't have weather reports and you would just see a huge wall of clouds coming up from the south with the wind getting stronger and the waves getting bigger...

Guy, great trip report. I wonder how many times rails have been used to mark property lines? Seems like it would have been a little expensive back in the day, but they will last forever. I've seen them used on the Pattenburg tunnel in Northern NJ as a guide over the mountain for surveying. Seems...

Union Nice trip Mark. I've been there several times myself and it is neat to just stumble upon the clay pipes in the woods. That wye section is pretty neat, and in all the exploring I've done, I don't think I've ever seen one before. The grass by the cellar hole can get really tall there and my...

Ironstone Wow, thanks for all of that info Jerseyman. I figured they had to be pretty close to one another, but figured someone on here would know. It seems to be very unique to pine areas and is kind of neat to think you can build things with stone in an area with no rocks or mountains. I...

Ok, I know I should probably know this already, but I've read before in books about our local South Jersey native stones, but is it Sandstone, or Ironstone, or both? Everyone I've ever known has called it sandstone, but the way most books refer to this stone used in foundations, they call it NJ...

And speaking of Music There are two bands that I'm particularly fond of for drinking in the pines. Iron and Wine and The Appleseed Cast. They are both newer bands, a little modern, but great for some serious relaxing. And if I didn't have to work tomorrow, I would probably be out in the wilds...

Speaking of Beer On the last kayak trip I made, I was supposed to bring some beer and forgot (I know....how?) but, I made it along and all of a sudden I see to my right, in the weeds an unopened can of beer still stuck in the six pack holder. Now I don't go around eating garbage, but this was...

Wow. I bet that's a better mud flap then what's on the back of the truck.

Calico Cool trip Mark. That is one long deep looking puddle in the first photo. The road west of Martha seems almost exactly the same. I walked that section (west of martha) in the dead of January and the whole thing was frozen. It seems maybe that trail you took a pic of would have also been a...

Yeah, that Pine Barrens mud and the scrub oaks will do their best to keep you out though. Lol. I can't tell you how many times I had to drive off the main road to go around a downed tree or to take a pisser and keep the road clear. There are a lot of fun roads out there that are just, well...

Although that would look really nice, and compliment the site well, I honestly think it would be cut out and scrapped so fast. That's why you don't see that kind of sign very often in the middle of nowhere. Just sayin.

True. Just cover it up. It's still there. Or otherwise, Martha could have turned into Speedwell. When I spoke to Mr. Lee (I think) who lives there, he said that the furnace stack used to be something like 20 feet when he was young. Now it's barely 3 feet. But I guess, no matter what, everything...