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I would think to find a place to rent, your best bet might be the Burlington County Times. You can search rentals on their website: http://www.newspaperads.com/phillyburbs/category.asp?interfaceid=277&parent=Classified+Rentals

If you are just looking for a regular hotel with no particular local flavor, I am pretty sure all Hampton Inns allow dog guests.

I have found them more than once. Twice I found isolated teeth, and once a large deposit near a stream. The isolated finds were by a pingo.

That museum is great. I completely agree. They also sell a little publication about Hanover Furnace that includes descriptions and pictures of artifacts that were donated. Very cool! It is worth the trip.

I have found sharks' teeth in the pines.

No I didn't get it, but I have come across a number of references for it. I was researching the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in the 1790's earlier this year for something, and would love to read more about the Yellow Fever in 1852. I am wondering if there are parallels... Could you send it...

I don't particularly know a lot about Martha, but even after the furnace shut down, there'd still be a lingering economy of mills, charcoal kilns, farming, etc. Which is why I hesitate to use the word "epidemic," because I can't imagaine a population much bigger than 100 there in 1852. I know...

I looked at some more obituaries, and it seems there was indeed an isolated outbreak that killed a lot of people. You are probably right though, Ben, that no grave markers remain. Rats.

Yes, what a coincidence! I want to find out if there was an epidemic, because then my next question is where are they all buried?

Sooo. I was just searching some obituaries for something unrelated, and came across one that reads as follows: July 8, 1852 On Thursday, the 17th ult.(June, 1852), at Martha Furnace, ANN ELIZA ADAMS, daughter of Zephaniah and Eleanor Adams, in the 21st year of her age. This is the first...

I love October through early November, where the weather is still reasonably mild, and the trees are losing their foliage so you can see much better and hear the dry leaves in the wind. Everything smells different in the autumn. But I also love spring, and laurels in bloom.

I had such a good time! Thanks for inviting me Ben. It made me feel like I need to get out in the woods more often.

Heh. I'm the same age as Ben and the very first time I used a computer was as a freshman in college in 1996. I had no idea how the internet functioned, and found the stupid Maple program we had to use for email so daunting that I didn't even use email for an entire year. Seems weird that 10...

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After over a year, it's finally done. (Almost). There's still some additional detail I'd like to flesh out about some peripheral historical events that impacted the rise and fall of the furnace. And I'm still selecting figures, plates, maps, etc. I think I've tracked down a daguerrotype...

It really depends what sort of archaeologist you are. I started out working on Neolithic sites in Europe, but for practical reasons (as in needing food, and money to pay for the food), I started working in contract archaeology. I've never had to travel particularly far, but NJ has a lot of...

Public Archaeology Funding. The rule is thus: Unless a site is in imminent danger due to pending construction, the state prefers a "preservation in place" approach. The idea is that with each passing year, technology becomes better and future archaeologists are far better equiped to deal with...

I just uploaded some pictures from the 1930's into my user gallery. They are from an agricultural survey done during the depression of marginal farmers in New Jersey and Appalachia, focusing on the mostly immigrant (mostly Italian) workforce and the abuses of child labor. I think these images...

Aqua Deer vs. Ariadne I'm just guessing here, but maybe the deer was eating the algae because it was sick? I know my dog eats grass when his stomach is upset... At any rate, apparently algae-eating deer aren't the norm.

On Sunday I was lazing around the house, flipping through channels and I happened upon David Sutherland's documentary "Country Boys" on PBS. I've never seen a more true-to-life depiction of the realities of growing up impoverished in rural America (I was never as poor or as rural as some of...