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Guy: I wholeheartedly concur with your sentiments. Nothing like a good mystery to liven up the forums and generate a high level of interest!! And despite being perceived as your Google, I learn new things every day and will never stop such an important “programming” activity!! I guess you...

Guy: Thank you for putting this effort into its proper perspective. While I may have done the legwork and identified the proper drawing depicting the Davis Grove filling station, everyone who posted in this thread played a role in uncovering the proper identification and location of this...

Enoch: I think the photograph dates to sometime between 1932 and 1938. Trailhead00 found a website that appears to date the “Gulf” sign to 1936 or after. I agree with you—I think the pumps and small office building/store predate the house, which is why the pumps are from and earlier era...

Bob: I am humbled by your words and I thank you for them. To be perfectly honest, there are times when I feel like a Sherlock Holmes while researching a place or topic. Currently, I am conducting research on a small Black church in Mount Laurel Township and I am totally amazed at all of the...

Thanks, Jeff! Yes, I thought this was close-by the area you described, although I knew it was on the opposite side of the road. Best regards, Jerseyman

Banjo: I concur—this has truly been a lot of fun for me. I’m just glad I had other reasons to visit the Burlington County Clerk’s Office to find the information!! Cheers to you, Ben! :guinness: Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: My take on the 1931 flyovers is to move your marker a short distance east. Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: I have a feeling the Mr. Davis may have constructed the house as a rental property, although I can’t be certain of that. Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: Thanks and amen on not discounting the memories of the older folks! While oral history has its bounds, it remains part of a comprehensive approach to documenting the past. Yes, I think we are talking Beebe Lane. They are not mile markers, Guy—they are survey station points, which...

Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed! Folks: It appears the mystery has been solved! I looked at well over 50 drawings today as I searched through the plans for widening Route 40 in Evesham, Southampton, Woodland, and Pemberton townships. I found one drawing that depicted a...

Ben: I presume you mean “distilleries” and not “breweries” here, since it requires a distillery to produce spirits and a brewery to produce alcohol from yeast-induced fermentation from grain. The Laird Distillery is a landmark in New Jersey. During the nineteenth century, there were two Laird...

Thanks, Guy! Yes, I well remember our visit to John Kay’s sawmill dam and our conversation in which Relayer and I told you all about the dumped gas station remnants on the other side of the North Branch of Cooper River. My mental recollections of that location identifies the remains as an...

Doug: You embarrass me greatly, but thank you for the kind words. Working in the local history field for the past 35 years has taught me a thing or two, so using a few tricks to elicit “missing” information I need from a census population schedule is almost mechanical at this point...

Doug: Based on the information you supplied above, I went back for a another search of the 1930 federal decennial census and I found the James family still residing in Collingswood. When the enumerator recorded them, He listed “Thomas” as the surname and “James” as the given name, which is...

Y-BUC-BILL: Here is a thread I posted back in 2006 featuring a newspaper article about Pittman: http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/showthread.php?t=3308 I thought the article might interest you. Best regards, Jerseyman

It can’t hurt, Guy, it can’t hurt! I would encourage anyone who uses the iMap site and encounters the same problem with image pixelation, that you also write an email to DEP requesting they scan the original glass-plate negatives instead of the screened ones. AFAIK, I don’t think we are...

Folks: In the course of conducting research for the Davis Grove mystery, I used the DVD set in my collection of the 1931 flyover photographs—the same ones offered through the state’s iMap website. The poor quality of the images makes it very frustrating as it is extremely difficult to zoom in...

Roy: Thank you so much for responding to this thread. I concur that the building sits on the north side of the road and I have operated on that thought process from the beginning. Your suggestion of the Arcadia books is a good one, but I’ve already checked both of the Cherry Hill volumes and...

Al: I suggest you and Guy make an appointment to visit my library and avail yourselves of the SGO’s survey books I have here on microfilm. Perusing the index, there are numerous listings in various survey books of the West New Jersey Society, likely including the Society’s boundary lines...

Doug: Vineland entrepreneur Eugene Mori received special dispensation to build Garden State Park during the early years of World War II. Despite restrictions on virtually all building materials and a lack of gasoline and tires for transportation, Mori built his race track in 1942 and it...