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I forgot to include the address to my group on Yahoo. It's http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ghosttownsofsouthernnj/

Bob, This computer only has a 166 megahertz processor, a tiny amount of total memory, and NO SOUND. Otherwise I would have tried to listen! :) I know it can be frustrating. I feel a frustration with my posts, which not only get no responses, but they get few or no HITS. I don't get it...

Some time ago a friend of mine lent me his copy of the Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey, Number 48, 1993. I photocopied a great article out of it, for future reference, (since he wouldn't let me keep it. LOL) It tells the complete known history of our bog iron...

I too have been to that gravesite. One day I'll get up there again and walk back behind it and look for the clearing where there were houses way back when. One time I tried to look for any evidence of the old wooden markers that were there at one time but couldn't find any. When Father Beck was...

That's in Wading River (used to be called Bridgeport). The cemetery is called the Adams-Leek-McKeen Cemetery. It's from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Just outside the fence from it, under the trees, is the old Friends Cemetery. There was a Friends Meeting house there at one time. In that...

Recently I found that one of my USGS Survey maps shows a graveyard on the right side of 536, Chew Road, over the county line in Camden County. I went to go see it today and found that it's on some private property. The map shows it on a dirt road in an open field. Well the dirt road appears to...

Interesting. I had never heard of Tom Brown till one of my members in my group on Yahoo mentioned his name

Today I found what I'm almost certain is the Ellis Adams farmhouse site. Ever since I bought the book, Heart of the Pines, the location of the site has been right under my nose. John Pearce, in the chapter about Martha shows a small portion of the USGS Survey map that covers Martha and vicinity...

Finally, someone makes me feel young. I'm only 38. LOL And I'm not from South Jersey. I grew up in North Jersey (western Morris County) and have only lived here in South Jersey since 1985. I was never wild when I was a teenager and was never a partyer. I've been a fanatic about nature and local...

I'm actually on Darmstadt Avenue, less than a mile off Route 30 (between 30 and 561). The only people in Sweetwater that I know are my mom's cousins who live on a little road off of Thurston Avenue (which is off of Pleasant Mills Road). I see them once or twice a year, if that much. But I...

I live just a few miles from the site of Amatol. There used to be a historical marker (sign) for it, somewhere along Moss Mill Road (Mullica Township, Atlantic County). I have a picture of the marker, but it has since been stolen. Is there anyone here who has found any foundations, or railroad...

Far out! This is exciting! I was just there yesterday! I took my dad to see it before going up to Nash's Cabin. The building is gone, but everything from the floor level down is still there. On the way to Nash's cabin there is a fork where if you take the left fork you go through an open gate...

Update Well, nobody seems to ever read this section of the Pine Barrens message forums. This question only received 3 hits and no replies in 24 hours. That's bad. Using my various books on the subject, I've come to the conclusion that these trees must be Old Field Pine, Pinus taeda, (AKA...

I was showing my dad the Sibble Shaler grave, behind Egg Harbor City Lake. (after I took him to see Nash's cabin, near Calico) On the edge of the woods, right near the grave there are some tall (relatively speaking) pine trees. The tree SORT OF resembles Pitch Pine, but not really. And it's...

Sorry, I forgot to share our findings with the board. Unfortunately we DID NOT find the plants again. I bet if I drove that road again I could find it, especially if I was alone with no one to talk to. HA HA. I hate when that happens. I saw them and took pictures, yet we couldn't find them...

Sounds like a great idea. But I don't have a camcorder or anything to make such a recording. I once spent time in the Batsto tower with a young kid who happened to be the son of a former co-worker from when I worked at Atsion in 1985 and 86. The guys that man the towers like visitors because...

Yes. There is a link to the fire lookout web page on my site, http://members.tripod.com/~hammerhead39/barry.html Barry

There are at least 2 or 3 website where sitings of the Jersey Devil are listed, but your idea might be good anyway. Unfortunately, I've never seen it (maybe FORTUNATELY!) It is quite interesting how it keeps getting seen or heard, but never found or caught. Barry

I agree Bob. WestyVW said basically the same thing in his post below, "What's going on?". I wonder. In my Yahoo club, which now has 127 members(registered users), I've seen very little posting on the message board up until the last month or so. I think I have maybe 8 to 10 active members. Most...

I'm planning on it. If others will be there, I'll be there! It's okay with me if it is just a hole in the ground. As long as I know that I've found what I'm looking for, that's great.