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Hope this is big enough. It's alongside the Batona Trail between Bull Creek and Washington Road.

Today I did a short hike from Batsto to Evans Bridge on the Batona Trail. Started off cold then got a little warmer :) Hadn't been on this section in twenty years and was amazed at how I could still locate things I saw back then. Some parts are a little overgrown, saw a seagull which disappeared...

non 4-wheel drive roads Question - are there any roads that are suitable for a non-4-wheel drive vehicle in the vicinity of the batona trail between batsto and evans bridge and evans bridge and absegami lake? I'm looking to do a small section with someone who hasn't gone walking in a long time...

Sometimes the most interesting things to see are off-trail, especially in the Barrrens. Just this past weekend, I walked from Carranza to Quaker Bridge and was walking through the brush to check out open areas and cellar holes and one rather large depression just past the CJ RR. Interesting...

:mrgreen: nothin like a good pun

1996 - Watts Bar - Spring City, TN This is when it went into operation. (Seemed like a research project of a sort) :mrgreen:

Very cool! Now would be the time for an archaeologist to go out and make drawings, document what is there, if it hasn't been done already. :) How often do these blowout tides occur?? Looks like it was a good day off work :mrgreen:

Did a short walk on the Batona Trail yesterday and went up Apple Pie Hill. Hadn't been up there in a couple years so it looked different from what I recall - the new fencing around the top of the hill - but the view is still great. Interesting to find a smashed computer, a printer and a couple...

:mrgreen: so...um who's the mom??? :rofl:

Wearin bright colors is a good idea, although I wear a pea coat in the winter, so what can ya do? I was told by the ranger at Atsion that last week was the one week they don't recommend anyone going out hiking so it should be fine from now on. I'm headin out on the Batona on Saturday - looks...

Another possibility for the name is found in Marylin Schmidt's new book: Towns Lost but Not Forgotten: a woman goin up the hill accidentally smashed her apple pies

One thing I read somewhere (I know, not helpful) is that it looks like an apple pie in profile (?)

from A Pennsylvania Pioneer: Biographical Sketch with Report of the Executive Committee of the Ball Estate(1900): "....April 14, 1859, Ellen M. French, Levi French, Sarah A. French and Francis B. Chetwood seized of a certain tract known as the Martha Tract....said Ellen M., Sarah A., Francis...

Nice map Mark - notice another area similarly delineated to the right of the one you marked....could be interesting to check out both areas. Maryln Schmidt has a new book: Towns Lost but Not Forgotten. Here is what she has for Chetwood: "Around 1858 Francis B Chetwood acquired Martha's...

You could be right Mark - Martha closed down in the 1840s - could be Chetwood was an attempt at rebirth much like the stages Atsion went through - something else to look into :)

Got about two inches where I am - calling for more tomorrow nite, I think..

Guy Something else for me to look into :) I missed that reference when I first went through "Iron in the Pines" and it now has my curiosity. I went online to look through the maps at Rutgers and 'Chetwood' appears on this map from 1890 - it appears to be in the same location as Martha, up the...

Hope that isn't positioned over a patch of poison ivy :v: convienient tho - you can do your business and pick blueberries at the same time :mrgreen:

Yuengling is good - I usually drink MGD. Of course nothing beats a nice Guinness from time to time :mrgreen: :guinness:

I'm reading a copy of the diary - it's a rather interesting read. It mentions many of the streams and local places. Also, you can get a sense of who worked for the forge and when.