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This is probably waaay beyond the scope of what you are asking, maybe this could be for the 2026 update :) I’ve been meaning to mention this for years, but you know, life. There is sooo much content buried in this forum on every conceivable PB topic. It would be interesting to point AI at the...

I've been working on the history of Hampton Furnace and Hampton Park, chipping away it over the last couple years. Eventually I'l finish it, but in the meantime, I thought I would post some interesting things I've found along the way. Many may have heard of the robbery near Hampton in 1916, in...

That makes sense.

Nice work! I had wondered if the feeder canal was of the iron era or the cranberry era. It seemed to be a feat of civil engineering larger than some of the other nearby manmade features, similar scale to the canal that was used during the cranberry era to bypass the furnace pond on the Batsto.

A little late to the New Years party, but just want to add my thanks for all that you do, Boyd. It is awesome!!

Yes, the straight line created by the roadbed/dam. “Flat spot” is probably a poor descriptor :), but basically it was a feature that I could verify on a map that was georeferenced. I did look around for slag, but couldn’t find any easily. (There would probably be a lot less of it than is...

Kind of in reverse. I looked at the 1849 map and noted the flat spot (I.e. the straight line created by the dam/roadbed) and noted the structure was on the western end. Then I went to the aerials and dropped a pin at the western end of the flat spot and went to that spot using my GPS. I...

Yep.

I thought I would come back and add a little more to this since I've done a little more exploration. This is surely a little speculative, but a fun exercise that seems to check out. If you go back to the 1849 map by J.W. Otley and R. Whiteford, you can note a few things: First, there is this...

You picked out the most ironic part of this situation. I know for a fact AT LEAST 10 residents contacted them asking to pass a resolution against the State’s plans. My question then was: did 11 or more residents ask them to pass a resolution in support of the State’s plan? If not, then...

Thanks, Jerseyman! Yes! This is another great one to add to my list! I have been searching for the digitized version of this ad! It is from the National Gazette and Literary Register in 1825 I believe, right? How did you find it? It didn't seem that any nearby libraries had it. Since we...

I came across this thread in my Hampton research and thought I would add some of what I was writing about because it provides some insight into this question. The location of the original forge is somewhat in question, but there are several maps and references that help give us clues as to...

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No sooner than posting this, I figured it out. Their page is wrong. The actual URL is: http://ccarchive.co.burlington.nj.us/NewViewer.aspx I’ll leave my post here in case anyone else gets tripped up on this in the future. I’ll delete it if they fix their page.

Hi all, I was trying to access Burlington County property records before 1965 and was going to this page: https://press.co.burlington.nj.us/Press/clerk/ClerkHome.aspx?op=basic You will see on that page, it refers you to: http://itmb01v/imagesync/Login.aspx Which, if I click on it, I get...

I've mentioned that I've been working on written history of Hampton, and a couple people asked about it so I thought I would give an idea of what I've been thinking about. In addition to the written text, I've have had in my mind to try to create some sort of visual picture of what it was like...

I had not seen this before, no! You’re right, it is strikingly clear. It is all there in 1940 and all gone by 1951. It answers some questions, but then prompts some more for me to run down! Great stuff.

Thanks! You hand traced them! I’m even more impressed. Yes, I I preferred the light theme and that is why I was looking at the 2017 vs 2020, but I’ll use 2020 from now on.

As you might have seen in another post I've been gathering history on Hampton and one of the things I have been trying to figure out is: what structures were present during which eras. (I.e. pre-iron age, iron age, cranberry era, etc). I came across these structures in your NJ Boyd Topo...

I just wanted to pop in and say not only thank you for this, but thank you in general for Boydsmaps! This has been become a permanent feature of my GIS toy box. :-) I was looking at something last night and woke up this morning and remembered this post and thought, "hey that feature would come...