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Awesome work as always! Incidentally, see here: https://boydsmaps.com/#14.00/39.625341/-74.637962/pines2023/0.00/0.00 "Gardiner's Landing" is a toponym, the origin of which I have not been able to figure out. As far as I can tell, it first appears on the USGS 1942 topo. Has anyone seen it...

I'm not that fast of a digger! I recognized it.

That be Lower Forge

Ah, of course. Neither have I.

Hi Russ. Thanks for the clarification. Indeed, this has been rehashed many times. Pardon me if you've detailed this before on this forum, but what exactly is the plan that you'd like to see implemented? Most here would agree that a balance needs to be struck between recreation and preservation.

Fun idea, my diesel-burning friend. I paid that hill a visit once. Lots of ironstone, just like the other nearby hills. Nothing around it suggests sufficient quarrying to explain its existence. This is a natural formation.

Russell, I thought your position was more nuanced than this.

OK, so I wouldn't bother trying to match up that map with the mystery berm.

Isn't this a generic diagram of a cranberry bog? Not a specific place?

Did you find anything, Guy?

Tar kiln confirmed!

Check it: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/centennialhistor00salt/centennialhistor00salt.pdf

Check out p. 95

See here: https://archcon.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tar-and-Pitch-Production-Sites-Paper.pdf

Off to bed for me. I leave you with this: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/seabrightrumsonr01leon/seabrightrumsonr01leon.pdf

OK, there appears to have been at least two locations called "Schenck's Mill". The one I've been describing was on one of the branches of Kettle Creek (formerly, Fishing Creek). The other was about 4 miles downstream from Ridgway's Mill on the North Branch of Tom's River.

Yep, the more famous one.

Correction: In 1761, it was referred to as E. Applegate's "old saw mill". He constructed the mill in 1740.

Longacoming was located upstream from the mill. Where was that?

They did a number on the terrain, for sure.