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Scott, It's known as Hollowfield cemetery. There's more at these threads: http://www.njpinebarrens.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t796-.phtml http://www.njpinebarrens.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t812-.phtml Take care, --Tom

Guy: That second pic is great. Looks like you took a trip to the tundra for the day. Those before and after shots of yours are always interesting, seeing how quick things change. Renee: But at the same time, the station had been there since the 19th century. 1872 at the very least. I'm going...

Yeah, the sand pits were definitely interesting. But man, have they torn up the area. Check out this aerial. What we saw was technically the smaller site. But thanks to everyone who came along; it was a fun day. Hope to do it again sometime soon. --Tom

Yeah, Miller's book is a nice book. A bit sketchy in some her citations, but otherwise quite useful. The tavern referenced at being near Ten Mile Hollow was the Charleytown Tavern: "It stood on the south side of Mule Road near the Irish Branch and north of Dover Forge. The men from Dover...

From “The Indians and Ocean County.†The Archeological Society of New Jersey. Bulletin 1. July 1948. "[...] shovel and got only some small shards, a few flakes of jasper, a large fragment of deer antler and several blisters. The heap was fairly well mutilated when I got there, so I hope...

Renee and Ben know. The location of those cellar holes on the topograph line up with where Ten Mile Hollow is on historic maps. As for the cemetery, did any of you guys get the coordinates? If not, just PM me for the directions. --Tom

I'm going to have to pass on this outing. The storm delayed a few things I needed to get done today, so that ties me up for tomorrow. Sorry :| --Tom

Yeah, so far I have back to back snow up here. Half a foot thus far. But roads should be clear by Sunday. How is it down there, Alfonso? Renee, weather allowing, 9AM sounds fine with me. --Tom

Yeah, I'm kicking myself for not doing that on Sunday. I went from a toasty 80 degrees down to whatever it was. I'll have to try that next time, thanks! Nope, can't say I have. Nice find! Is that the book Al's talking about? I wonder if there's any landmarks in that picture that we could line...

The list was recalled by Jim Branson from memory and written down by Margaret Britton in 1978--both who are descendents of those buried there. It's neither complete nor accurate, but I did a bit of work matching the names with genealogical records to correct whatever I could. Still have to do a...

Yep, it was a fun outing. We certainly covered a lot of ground. Credit goes to Bob for locating the cemetery. It's a tricky spot to find unless you know where to look. The problem with me was that I was looking everywhere except there. :-) Ann, kudos on your find at Dover Forge. We probably...

Well, I think it's a worth another look. Al, if you want to go check the area out on Sunday, I could make it down early in the morning. If anyone else wants to come along, the more pairs of eyes, the better. :-) --Tom

Yep, as was Ferrago, apparantly. Must have been a local habit to call them forges even though they also operated as furnaces.

Just to add to the MCHA record, here's the text concerning Dover Forge from Boyer's "Early Forges & Furnaces in New Jersey":

Ah, but the interesting thing is, the canoe drop off is above the Dover Forge pond about a half mile or so. Here's a topozone of the drop off. It seems an odd place to be settled. Al, did you say there was a trail leading off from there? --Tom

Concerning Tilly, I believe Dolf was incorrect. I did a bit of genealogical research on some of the families buried there. Concerning the Collins, we have Zebulon Collins II married to Rebecca Ireland. He's the one buried at Hollow Field. He had a father named Zebulon, also, who emigrated from...

Historic information is pretty scant, but from what I've been able to dig up: The earliest reference to Ten Mile Hollow is in Pierce's work, quoting the letter from Dr. John Torrey to Zaccheus Collins in 1818. Now the earliest industrial development in that area would have been the building...

I thought I had a photocopy of the original article, so I'm just going on memory. (Not necessarily a good thing with me.) It was a summer camp for boys during I believe the 1940s and 1950s. At some point the original dam at Bamber broke through and drained the lake. It remained that way for a...

Well, being one of the board's lurkers, I thought I'd pipe up and state for the record that I haven't been contributing to the decrease in various pieces of historic debris. Personally, I've been leaving any exploring for the colder months seeing as I sincerely hate ticks. But Renee hit upon...

Well, maybe relatively docile. :) It also depends on the individual, I guess. As a kid I used to collect anything I came across. At one point I had four painted turtles from a fishing trip. Three of them were perfectly good natured, but there one was who just didn't like anyone. He'd snap and...