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Those would be white pine distinctive layered shape with five needles to a cluster

Have Hands in my geneaology. Mine were whalers from Cape May County

I have been in those shady areas many times alone.Never worried or thought about it before.Now I"m very careful when in areas alone like that and I know of a few places I will not go alone anymore.One is "The Abyss"! Another would be cutting through the heart of Great Swamp.Worse cedar snag...

The gate is Garrisons. He lives just past the gate.Don't go in that way or he will flip a biscuit.It's technically legal but He thinks that is his driveway.there are two ways in from port cumberland road.one bypasses his house to the south utilizing fries mill bridge the other is over the rr...

https://online.boydsmaps.com/#17/39.34264/-74.96420/njgin1995 another chimney here

I have dug down in several kilns and immediately find charcoal then below that I have encountered clay,looks orange but filthy black with charcoal dirt when I pulled it out.I would suspect tar might be encountered in the barrel hole if any spilled out while removing it? I know in South Carolina...

https://online.boydsmaps.com/#17/39.34931/-74.95841/njgin1995 This is Fries Mill rd https://online.boydsmaps.com/#17/39.34849/-74.96060/njgin1995 This is fries Mill settlement https://online.boydsmaps.com/#17/39.34574/-74.96279/njgin1995 This is the tavern

why are so many sawmills Y shaped trenches?

You captured that Kiln better then I seem to be able to.I think a cloudy day may help

Yes I found it later.A little more work on my file and I"ll send you updated

Boyd your crosshairs are on the old mill.It's been gone for many many years but the foundation is still there.The field to the north has a foundation in it and I forget the name of the person that lived there but have the info some where.That house was lived in right up to the 50;'s or 60';s but...

That is one of the two chimneys at the old fries mills tavern otherwise known as Potters cabin.The actual town of fries mills with several nice cellars and mill foundations is maybe 300 yards north at the intersection with Fries Mill rd. There is a map placard there that is quite dirty there but...

If they won't do it eventually nature will.

That island is all of three ft above lake level in the center and so thick you can barely get onto it.You can actually walk across the top of the lake from there across Old Colonial Dam which is the original dam in the lake from the 1700's.In the summer a rim of grass grows on the dam and it can...

I have noticed an odd thing.This island https://online.boydsmaps.com/#17/39.43177/-75.06823/njgin2007 seems to be impervious to Lidar.It is not on any of the Lidar imagery but yet I have stood on it.

I think thats a petroleum based tar but their both pretty much impervious to water which would probably make them almost indestructible as far as rot goes,could be carbonized into nothing by forest fires possibly?

In youtube video i was watching a man states they dug tar out of an old kiln so apparently it has staying power like charcoal.

I dug through the charcoal layer in one with my hand and started pulling up orange clay. I intend to dig in a barrel hole or two and see if I can find any tar left in the soil.The charcoal had a faint pine smell after all these years,wonder if tar will as well?

Real good pic of a tar kiln on page 30

https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/tarheels-pitch-pine-colonial-america