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Middle Road, in Hammonton Tract's “middle” ground, holds a mystery. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/atsion-old-and-renewed.4376/page-12#post-131147 On the 1860: Griffith Morgan Hopkins, Jr. "Topographical Map of the State of New Jersey: Together with the Vicinities of New York and...

Jerseyman, MikeBickerson, great stuff. Is there any record of a “little mill” on Little Creek? This creek’s length really isn’t that short. Uncle Budd suggested that the old meaning of the term “little” had more to do with water-storage duration than mill size. The concept was that a little mill...

Just checking in to report that the garden is still producing. We are picking four varieties of lettuce, parsley, cilantro, scallions, kale, mustard, collards, and other greens, parsnips, daikon, a bit of chard, a couple peas, and Jerusalem artichoke. The Apollo Hybrid “Brokali” side sprouts...

What do 65-million-year-old fossils in Vincentown have to do with ice-coring in Greenland and Antarctica? Monday, September 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM – Soggy Ground: Valuing Pine Barrens Wetlands. Southampton Historical Society, Vincentown, NJ. I'll also talk about the origins and use of ancient...

Boyd, Judging by the amount of leaves drying up on understory shrubs, especially the non-natives, I think the Richland area ground has reached its wilting point despite a couple of gully-washers during the last couple of months. Spring growth was lush (too lush) due to abundant rain and cool...

Manumuskin, Which Hartman map marks a grist mill in on Lawrens Branch in Hesstown? All I remember are beaver ponds marked there, but it makes sense to use every bit of water power to make life easier. That is a serviceable place to put a mill. Like old taverns, little mills pop up in unexpected...

Thanks Bob, Like Manumuskin I too would have casually dismissed the plant as wild lettuce, a local bias. The difference would have been obvious in the field as the id would have been done by leaf smell and whether or not latex was present when the leaf was broken, not through botanical taxonomy...

Empress-Tree, Paulownia tomentosa, has a neat trick. When the tree is cut to the ground, it sends up an herbaceous stalk with giant leaves that look different than adult leaves. That herbaceous stem usually dies to the ground the end of the first year. Then a woody stem arises the next season to...