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Many here know of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant's association with the Lacey Tract and Forked River Mountains. Some are aware that he had inherited his family's country estate called Tranquility in Allamuchy, NJ. Apparently several of the abandoned buildings there have recently fallen victim to arson...

Interesting question. Many old maps show an almost straight route from Bodines to Bass River. I was always a little troubled by the kink just where Stage Road leaves 679 and imagined that at one time the road ran straight but for safety reasons was altered to intersect 679 at a right angle...

Welcome Todd. Was your dad named Lee by any chance?

Ben, Wow, you are going pretty far up! Like RednekF350 we have made Acadia as our focus. We have been taking our family to coastal Maine every other year since 1998. When given a choice between Disney World and Maine the kids chose Maine every time. We leave at 2:30 AM and hit the Maine...

Lower left-hand corner.

The bridge is "Stone Bridge". The "10 miles to Batsto" is on a line connecting Atsion to that place. Rich

Does anything remain of the old dam at Hampton's Lower Forge - aka Washington Forge? If so, was it located above or below the current Lower Forge campsite?

Had just read this last week. New Jersey Courier 8 Feb 1924 CHATSWORTH HOOCH CAUSES ONE DEATH, ANOTHER ILL Whiskey, of the Chatsworth "block and fall" variety, is blamed for the death of William CHAMBERLAIN, 68 years old, cranberry picker on the bogs of the Applegate Land and Improvement...

Edward's Industries of New Jersey (1882) identifies the following places as receiving their mail at Atsion: Atsion Junction, Cranberry Park, Hampton, Chewville (Chewtown), and East Fruitland. Must have still been something of a village in East Fruitland at the time.

Found the following in The Gardner's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser (Vol IX, 1867) What is also very curious is that the Publisher of this periodical was W.G.P. Brinckloe who eventually owned one of the lots at East Fruitland. This is the same lot that was mentioned in post 73 above...

This is the Burlington County map from the same atlas (1873). No "Station". Even though the text is mostly in Atlantic County it seems to be referring to the area we have been discussing below the railroad and east of the Mullica. Certainly not the most accurate map.

I am not certain about the first three initials (my guess is MEM) but the last name is Brinckloe. The link to the abandoned farms of Shamong Township says that one of the properties was once owned by WGP Brinckloe. It has to be the same lot as the acreage agrees.

It should be noted that Guy found every one of the stones! I think by now he can smell them. I really appreciated that was willing to help me on my first stone search. For the record - I would NEVER have found a single stone on my own. Thanks Guy.

Thanks Jerseyman. The stones were really cool to find. The history that you have attached to them makes my first stone searching that much more interesting!

Alright, so I am officially having alot of fun with this! Check out the following ad...

So . . . it appears that there really was an East Fruitland that was distinctly different from the original Fruitland property. Spung-Man had posted the following map in a 2009 post. I also found in "Industries of New Jersey" (Richard Edwards, 1882) that the village of East Fruitland in...

I find the words "according to the Plan of Lots of east Fruitland" very interesting. What was east Fruitland? Could it have been a separate development? The language reminds me of other development schemes that were later expanded with "additions". Perhaps I am reading too much into this...

Indeed the dashed line is identified as the Township Line.

The map showed the "Property of Joseph Wharton and Others". Land was surveyed between 1891 and 1902. The numbers on the lots have nothing to do Fruitland. They apparently were used by the surveyor to identify all the various parcels.

Don, The colorful names that you provide for the folks that lived along the river really bring the place alive! The following confirms your statements about the lot sizes and the extent to which the properties approached the river. The story of these lots has been on the back burner with...