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    Historic Highways of America

    Have you ever walked the Causeway from Buttonwood Hill to Batsto through Mordecai Swamp? Regular highway with seven foot circumference cedar growing in it.
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    Historic Highways of America

    The Gibersons end looks tight and grassy but drivable
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    Historic Highways of America

    looks like the southern entrance is blocked by a guard rail from dover but the northern go around looks drivable
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    Historic Highways of America

    I see the road on topo.Long straight road , is it still drivable?
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    Historic Highways of America

    I have an ancestor that went over the Wilderness Road with Boone from the Yadkin Valley.His name was Jonas Sparks and He helped build Boonesborough.His name is on the monument in front of the Fort.He was with Boone when his son was killed along Clinch River. There are quite a few old roads...
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    Historic Highways of America

    https://www.tschanzrarebooks.com/pages/books/2138/archie-butler-hulbert/historic-highways-of-america At his url there is a list of books that detail the historic highways of America.They go for over a thousand bucks hard copy.You can download them free as ebooks from Archive.org.I have also...
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    Announcing the new NJPB Maps

    Back in Business! Thanks Boyd!
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    BigFoot Lives?

    I"ll have to make an appearance
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    Wolfspider found the W.P. 1700 stone!

    I don't know Boyd but I personally know of three stones taken in the last three years all of which were next to roads.These stones were there for close to two hundred years and then one day Bam! they were gone. I notice it seems to be a fad right now that a lot of people do have big stones in...
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    Wolfspider found the W.P. 1700 stone!

    I"m surprised it's lasted this long considering where it is and the size of it.Probably stolen. Some people just have no class.
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    Bears

    That was her way of saying "Don't call me, Don't text me,Don't look at me, don't even think about me!
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    New law: no smoking in public parks, forests?

    If anyone asked me what a greenhead was I"d invite them to Fortescue in JUly and educate them a little
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    Crossing the Maurice River

    The old girlfriends old house is visible from the Muskee crossing of 47.Many moons ago
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    Crossing the Maurice River

    Oh you went up the old tracks (same one in the first pic only further south) and were on the Clear run trestle.The upstream view spoiled by two cell towers now
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    New law: no smoking in public parks, forests?

    Ben was right.The smell is right down deadly. Clam and oyster shell piles. Once the stink is gone,sometimes even when it isn't folks around here fill their muddy driveways and dirt roads with them.I did it to mine once.Stunk for a couple weeks then was good.
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    Crossing the Maurice River

    I think you may have been at Peek Preserve?I have not been out there since it was Trespassing so my memory is a little sketchy but I"m speaking of the pic before the last one.
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    Crossing the Maurice River

    the first two shots are of Muskee Creek from 47 looking upstream in the one and across the tidal pond at the old RR tracks on the other.If you are really good at tight rope walking you can still cross the tidal pond outlet there,I on the other hand am no longer that stable.
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    New law: no smoking in public parks, forests?

    The one thing to do in Diving CReek in summer besides swimming in the Blue Holes is crabbing.Used to be just locals out to Turkey Point and Owls nest but then the advent of the internet publicized such places and now on a summer weekend good luck getting a spot between Shoobies and migrant farm...
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    New law: no smoking in public parks, forests?

    When people ask me if I"m related to the Jersey Devil I have been known to tell them their looking at Him:-) If that isn't a $#!T eatin grin there never was one:-)
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