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Extremely fine fieldwork, Guy, Al, and Jessica! You followed in Elnathan’s footsteps very well! I must say—you folks really have “stones”!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Best regards, Jerseyman

Bob: In fond memory of Dick Martin and his never-ending sources of humor, I humbly submit the following Laugh-In parody: Soffit to me…Soffit to me…Soffit to me…Soffit to me :) :) :) Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: Yes, you absolutely must get dirty to see the full scope of things there at Iron Mill. Although I have not completed the deed research to confirm it, I suspect that when the Vineland Railway purchased its right-of-way through this vicinity, beginning in 1867, the railroad acquired the...

Folks: Perhaps a bit of history about Iron Mill would “brighten” this Waterford Township location for all concerned. Charles S. Boyer noted in his research that the Camden County Historical Society used to publish Old Mills of Camden County in 1962, “When it was built, history does not...

Folks: Besides selling books, I am also cleaning out my flat files of duplicate maps. So, if you are interested in cartographic sources for your New Jersey research and treks, please email or PM me with your email address and I will respond with my current list of maps for sale. Thanks...

Thanks, Ben. I should note that I have checked all of the usual suspects relative to place names without result. I have a couple of other sources to look at, but I thought I would throw it out here. Best regards, Jerseyman

Folks: I have just received an undated nineteenth-century manuscript map that shows the toponym “Tadpole” in connection with a bridge carrying Batsto-Washington Tavern Road across the stream in Mordecai Swamp. Has anyone picked this place name up before? I am working to gain permission to...

Folks: In an attempt to relieve the overcrowding in my library, I am selling off duplicative titles and I have a two-page list prepared for distribution. So, if you are interested, please PM or email me with your email address and I will respond with the list attached. General condition of...

Mark: Very nice report! While I have viewed most of what you depict in the photographs, I must say the large dump has escaped my attention heretofore! Time for me to revisit the area. The bricks, an early product at the works, read "Ocean Co., NJ" and then usually a second line reads "1850,"...

Folks: On this Memorial Day, the most somber and sober Holiday on the American Calendar, please remember that we are duty-bound as citizens of the best nation God ever established to honor those who have fallen on the world’s battlefields for our freedom and to bring liberty to the oppressed...

no1one: You seem to be asking the same question in at least two different threads on the forums here. If you want definitive information on any of these failed developments, I suggest you visit the clerk’s office in the county or counties where you find these developments and conduct some...

Folks: I have had the privilege of working at home for the past 20-plus years: 13 years with my own consultancy and the past 8 years with my position as senior historian for my current employer. Those in the company who need to know have visited my library and are well aware of what I have...

Tom: There are two websites that offer partial access to the Pennsylvania Session Laws and the Pennsylvania Statutes (when they are working!!): www.palrb.us offers access to the session laws passed between 1700 and 1809. They are planning to provide access to the remainder of the session...

Al: Be careful of your terminology here. You are extolling the virtues of well developed—perhaps even advanced—civilizations in your posting above, yet you are referring to these people as “savages.” The last time I checked my dictionary, a savage is defined as “an uncivilized human being.”...

Tom: This is a great source, to be sure; I’ve using it for some time now. However, it is not very searchable. Google Books offers many of these volumes as either full view or snippets. So, you can run string searches on Google Books and for those volumes or pages that do not display on Google...

Ben: Although I did not actually look at it, I did observe at Borders bookstore two evenings ago that WNJ has a new book out dedicated solely to the Jersey Devil, so you might actually be in two books now!! I will review to work the next time I am in a bookstore! Best regards, Jerseyman

Star: Welcome to the forums and congratulations on contemplating a soon move to LEHT—a beautiful spot, to be sure! Pull up a chair, sit a spell, and begin reading the many threads in these forums and you will learn a great deal about the Pine Barrens in particular and New Jersey in general. A...

daved: Sometime in the past two or three years, an article appeared in a local paper—I think the Burlington County Times, but it could have been the Courier Post—about the family that still collects the mud for baseballs. Major leaguer and Palmyra resident Lena Blackburne began the practice...

Jim: The Pennsylvania Railroad’s Philadelphia & Long Branch Railroad served the community of Buckingham. Beyond already possessing such knowledge, if you check any map that depicts Buckingham, you will see that it is located west of Whiting, the location of the westernmost terminus for the...

Jim: Nice to see you inserting some history and folklore into your postings! Everything you wrote about the Tuckerton Railroad is correct. The Barclay Haines that you mention founded the village of Hainesport during 1850 at the forks of the Rancocas in Burlington County. He owned a steamer...