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The depression between the road and the canal and between the arrows pointing to the sluice gate and the feeder canal is quite interesting. I could see that water would have been diverted from the canal into the depression and was likely controlled by a gate. But for what purpose?

Poked around the Upper Forge site and made this little map:

I think we can confidently rule out #3. The area in question is covered in cedar swamp that is demarcated by the braided area.

I believe this is the likely location of the tavern: https://boydsmaps.com/#14.00/39.755656/-74.753154/njgin1930/0.00/0.00

Nope.

They once called a mud puddle (created by off-roading, ironically) a vernal pool for the same reason. Where is Funtown?

Fun stuff. "Exposures reveal bedforms and sorting that can only be deposited by stream discharges that were orders of magnitude beyond the scale of the largest modern runoff events." This has been my understanding as well. Mark, do you see it this way?

I've seen them plow over sunning Slider turtles at the Forks. The d-bags that tend to ride jet skis have no regard for wildlife, other people recreating and home owners along the river.

Nevermind! I didn't think to do the obvious. Compare these two: https://boydsmaps.com/#15.62/39.745670/-74.840797/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 https://boydsmaps.com/#15.62/39.739815/-74.835909/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 Farr was correct.

I'm getting consistently higher elevations towards Wildcat Branch. https://boydsmaps.com/#18.90/39.742623/-74.835899/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 https://boydsmaps.com/#19.55/39.744942/-74.840199/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00

From William Farr's "Watermills of Camden County": "One of the courses of the road return was to “Cooper’s Small Dam,” which had been erected where the road crosses Coopers Branch, the name apparently being in contrast to the bigger dam at Burnt Mill. The small dam was presumably built by Isaac...

Bob, what is this? First shows up in the 1956 aerial. https://boydsmaps.com/#17.00/39.852054/-74.307740/midatlidar/0.00/0.00

Oh! Did it allegedly hit the ground?

Love me a good flying saucer tale

Fun, but... https://boydsmaps.com/#19.00/39.690152/-74.716873/us3depShade1/0.00/0.00 This lidar makes it more obvious that this was dug out by man.

Can't tell for sure from the picture, but my first impression was that the color is owing to lichen

Yep, that be ironstone. What looks odd exactly?

Guy, Rockwood had its own borrow pits here: https://boydsmaps.com/#18.00/39.696351/-74.720308/mbxterrain/0.00/0.00 ?? How large is the ironstone there?

https://boydsmaps.com/#18.12/39.693616/-74.706949/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 An old bridge over the former course?

Bob and all, check this out: https://boydsmaps.com/#16.79/39.692783/-74.704187/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 This was the original Sleeper Branch (Mechescatauxin) before being cut off around this point: https://boydsmaps.com/#16.00/39.696187/-74.707890/legacy24k/0.00/0.00