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George: I have nothing but a somewhat educated conjecture to run on here, but based on a review of the 1931 aerials (greatly enlarged!), I am wondering if Springtown was once a hamlet contaning a shack or two for the cranberry pickers. I note one or maybe two rectilinear structures with an...

Scott: Thanks for the kind words! You and I have already had some private conversations on the origins of Pestletown as a place name, so we will let that sleeping dog lie. Regarding the bogs along the Pump Branch (originally the Pump Brook), they apparently did not exist there in 1877. Only a...

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Best regards, Jerseyman

Bob: Those Gilbarco gas pumps in Guy’s photograph with the stainless steel skirts date to the late 1960s or early 1970s. Best regards, Jerseyman

LMCFashions: If you can provide me with the full name of your husband’s great-grandfather, it might help me further track down the location of “Davis Grove.” Thanks! Best regards, Jerseyman

LMCFashions (and Guy): After spending well over an hour pouring over numerous maps and checking many, many references, I have concluded that the location you seek is in Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania—and probably along the Old York Road there. The Willow Grove Naval Air...

Extremely fine fieldwork, Guy, Al, and Jessica! You followed in Elnathan’s footsteps very well! I must say—you folks really have “stones”!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Best regards, Jerseyman

Bob: In fond memory of Dick Martin and his never-ending sources of humor, I humbly submit the following Laugh-In parody: Soffit to me…Soffit to me…Soffit to me…Soffit to me :) :) :) Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: Yes, you absolutely must get dirty to see the full scope of things there at Iron Mill. Although I have not completed the deed research to confirm it, I suspect that when the Vineland Railway purchased its right-of-way through this vicinity, beginning in 1867, the railroad acquired the...

Folks: Perhaps a bit of history about Iron Mill would “brighten” this Waterford Township location for all concerned. Charles S. Boyer noted in his research that the Camden County Historical Society used to publish Old Mills of Camden County in 1962, “When it was built, history does not...

Folks: Besides selling books, I am also cleaning out my flat files of duplicate maps. So, if you are interested in cartographic sources for your New Jersey research and treks, please email or PM me with your email address and I will respond with my current list of maps for sale. Thanks...

Thanks, Ben. I should note that I have checked all of the usual suspects relative to place names without result. I have a couple of other sources to look at, but I thought I would throw it out here. Best regards, Jerseyman

Folks: I have just received an undated nineteenth-century manuscript map that shows the toponym “Tadpole” in connection with a bridge carrying Batsto-Washington Tavern Road across the stream in Mordecai Swamp. Has anyone picked this place name up before? I am working to gain permission to...

Folks: In an attempt to relieve the overcrowding in my library, I am selling off duplicative titles and I have a two-page list prepared for distribution. So, if you are interested, please PM or email me with your email address and I will respond with the list attached. General condition of...

Mark: Very nice report! While I have viewed most of what you depict in the photographs, I must say the large dump has escaped my attention heretofore! Time for me to revisit the area. The bricks, an early product at the works, read "Ocean Co., NJ" and then usually a second line reads "1850,"...

Folks: On this Memorial Day, the most somber and sober Holiday on the American Calendar, please remember that we are duty-bound as citizens of the best nation God ever established to honor those who have fallen on the world’s battlefields for our freedom and to bring liberty to the oppressed...

no1one: You seem to be asking the same question in at least two different threads on the forums here. If you want definitive information on any of these failed developments, I suggest you visit the clerk’s office in the county or counties where you find these developments and conduct some...

Folks: I have had the privilege of working at home for the past 20-plus years: 13 years with my own consultancy and the past 8 years with my position as senior historian for my current employer. Those in the company who need to know have visited my library and are well aware of what I have...

Tom: There are two websites that offer partial access to the Pennsylvania Session Laws and the Pennsylvania Statutes (when they are working!!): www.palrb.us offers access to the session laws passed between 1700 and 1809. They are planning to provide access to the remainder of the session...

Al: Be careful of your terminology here. You are extolling the virtues of well developed—perhaps even advanced—civilizations in your posting above, yet you are referring to these people as “savages.” The last time I checked my dictionary, a savage is defined as “an uncivilized human being.”...