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Andy: Welcome! You are among friends here and if you plan to post on local history subjects, you'll certainly have my attention! I'll be checking back for postings from you. Best regards, Jerseyman

Mark: Yes. Cartographers often abbreviated such titles on their works. The Widow Conrad owned 10 acres of land in 1876. Best regards, Jerseyman

Mark: As a variation on Turkeyfoot, there is also Crowfoot: Scott, 1876:41 Best regards, Jerseyman

Chase: I have not found any correlation between a turkeyfoot intersection and the patterning of early quilts. I can see how the quilting designs received their names, just as the roadway intersection has the physical appearance of a turkey foot. I do not, however, observe any connectivity...

Mark: Your comment surprised me, considering one of the best turkeyfoot intersections in this area is still extant in your hometown. Here is a detail from the 1856 Barnes & Vanderveer map of Camden County: The arrow is pointing to the intersection of Haddonfield-Berlin Road, Burnt Mill Road...

Guy and Mark: Roadway intersections carry various monikers, depending on the number of roads radiating from the intersection. These nicknames include: turkeyfoot (4 roads), crossroads or X-roads (2 roads), and wyes or forks (2 roads). One famous sharp-angled intersection just outside of...

Most excellent, Ben! I look forward to reading the other installments to this story. Charles Read left an indelible mark on West New Jersey and you are doing all of your readers a great service to bring this story to them. Best regards, Jerseyman

Ben: Is this a hint to you or to me? Best regards, Jerseyman scriptor rerum Nova Caesarea Dei memor, gratus amicus —————————————————————————————————————— “For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.” Christopher Smart (1722-1771): Jubilate Agno...

Gabe: AFAIK, Green Limb Branch still carries that name (look for the red arrow): Yes, there were two forges associated with Hampton: And, as noted above, the lower one is depicted “in ruins” on the 1833 Gordon map. Of course, both of these forges are quite a ways below Green Limb Branch...

Gabe: The “Tunking Mill,” which reportedly takes its name from the sound it made, was probably the stamping mill and forge associated with Hampton Furnace. Boyer notes the earliest mention found of Hampton Furnace appeared in a 1795 deed between Clayton Earl and William Lane and John W...

Spung-Man: Check your OED; the earliest example of “run” as a term for a stream or rivulet in definition no. 9 is 1581. Let's not get too rambunctious here! “We come to fish for the herring fish that live in the beautiful sea, nets of silver and gold have we, said Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod."...

46er: It would not surprise me at all that unspent ordnance still lies within the marsh. About two years ago, an employee with NJDEP contacted me concerning all of the different proving grounds and ranges that once existed within southern New Jersey. He was collaborating with the Army Corps...

KOTP: The cartographic publishing industry refer to these fake or ghost roads as “trap streets” as their purpose is to “trap” any firms or individuals engaging in intentional copyright infringement, as you suggest above. If you use the term as a search string, there are a number of...

46er: The New Jersey Mosquito Control Commission annual report for 1956 referred to this portion of the coastal marshes as “Bombing Range Meadows” and, presumably, the fighters operating out of Warren Grove used this area as a bombing range, especially during the Second World War. This, of...

Boyd: The answer to your “Cannon Range Road” can be found here: http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/ghost-towns-forgotten-places/7184-proposed-devastation-prior-belcoville.html Best regards, Jerseyman

Too bad, Guy, we can’t all find someone to fund our fun instead of our work! All too often the job gets in the way of doing what we really want to do!! Best regards, Jerseyman

Gabe: I remembered the report being online when I was drifting off to sleep. I was going to post the URL this morning, but then I forgot, so I am glad you did so! Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: The Sooy family is tough. Writing in the late 1870s, Leah Blackman stated, I have been unable to learn much about the geneology [sic] of the Sooy family. They do not properly belong to Egg Harbor township. The first generations of the Sooy family made extensive locations of land in...

Gabe: I should have taken the time to read the act in the 1841 pamphlet laws. That would have answered my questions without the need to state them! Since alluvial deposits represent some of the richest soils found, those who sought to restrain the tidal flow could have planted any number...

Gabe: From some preliminary research conducted here in my library, it appears Sooy’s Landing predates the American War for Independence. Adonijah Peacock surveyed 265 acres to Joseph Sooy and Daniel Morss on 8 April 1766 with the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a Sassafras and...