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Tom: This is a great source, to be sure; I’ve using it for some time now. However, it is not very searchable. Google Books offers many of these volumes as either full view or snippets. So, you can run string searches on Google Books and for those volumes or pages that do not display on Google...

Ben: Although I did not actually look at it, I did observe at Borders bookstore two evenings ago that WNJ has a new book out dedicated solely to the Jersey Devil, so you might actually be in two books now!! I will review to work the next time I am in a bookstore! Best regards, Jerseyman

Star: Welcome to the forums and congratulations on contemplating a soon move to LEHT—a beautiful spot, to be sure! Pull up a chair, sit a spell, and begin reading the many threads in these forums and you will learn a great deal about the Pine Barrens in particular and New Jersey in general. A...

daved: Sometime in the past two or three years, an article appeared in a local paper—I think the Burlington County Times, but it could have been the Courier Post—about the family that still collects the mud for baseballs. Major leaguer and Palmyra resident Lena Blackburne began the practice...

Jim: The Pennsylvania Railroad’s Philadelphia & Long Branch Railroad served the community of Buckingham. Beyond already possessing such knowledge, if you check any map that depicts Buckingham, you will see that it is located west of Whiting, the location of the westernmost terminus for the...

Jim: Nice to see you inserting some history and folklore into your postings! Everything you wrote about the Tuckerton Railroad is correct. The Barclay Haines that you mention founded the village of Hainesport during 1850 at the forks of the Rancocas in Burlington County. He owned a steamer...

Daved: Not surprising you located clay deposits in Delanco. Prior to 1926, Delanco Township was part of Beverly Township, which served as a source of semi-refractory or fire clay for the terra cotta works in Burlington and the terra cotta works in Moorestown. The same works also derived clay...

Look for some abuse of “Jerseyman” in a youtube production in the very near future!!! :clint: :colbert: Jerseyman

Ben: It appears that LIPs is of all men most miserable! He has no real life outside of loathing illegal aliens, wandering aimlessly around the pines of Long Island, eating fast food, and producing rant and rave videos for youtube, a sure sign of narcissism. The only girl friend he could...

Medford Piney: You work in one of my favorite Riverside buildings. I pass it frequently whenever I am headed to Burlington—whether driving or taking the RiverLine!! I have many post cards in my collection of the building under construction. For those who do not know it, this is the office...

Ben: I’ve been to Allaire many times and I LOVE the “Big House” there. Its frame construction reminds of the old Taunton mansion. Allaire and Long Pond Iron Works in Passaic County is as close as New Jersey residents will EVER get to a real, working historic ironworks. In Massachusetts...

Mark and Jay: I knew that NJN had been working on the program and would feature it last evening, but I was just too busy to watch it. However, since I work in a field closely related to historic preservation, I do have my opinions! :) There are a multitude of reasons why New Jersey—both...

:ninja: :ninja: :ninja: Thanks, Bob! I appreciate your confidence in me!! :eng101: Frankly, if the brick remained whole and its ends still featured the maker’s code number, we might be able to determine when the works produced the brick. Remember, however, that the bricks made at this...

Anytime, Ben—anytime. Just let me know what works for you and I’ll “book” you for a visit! Best regards, Jerseyman

“This is not a drill...” Folks: Here is a color image of a Bomarc test launch: Best regards, Jerseyman

Jim: Nice report on your trip and I’m glad you made it Winslow Junction. While most folks not familiar with local railroad operations would not readily recognize the significance of the Tex-Mex coach, it is a former Pennsylvania Railroad P70 coach, a once very common sight on the rails in and...

Mark: Since you do not have any historical maps of Warren County, here is a detail from the Pahaquarry Township plate in the 1874 F.W. Beers atlas of Warren County: For a version you can enlarge, go directly to this link...

Mark: Nice find!! The photographs you posted clearly depict a lime kiln—a ubiquitious artifact of Warren County’s agrarian past. Lime burners called the hole at the bottom the eye and constructed the kiln with a grate installed just above the eye. Workers would charge the kiln from the top...

Be careful here, my friend! While the Valentine family DID begin digging clay and burning brick in 1843, the firm of M.D. Valentine and Brothers did not start its operations until 1865. The company formally incorporated in 1892 with the New Jersey Secretary of State. When the company first...

oji: Here is some additional information about Little Pine Mill: In 1859, the Burlington County Orphans Court ordered the sale of all real estate of Arney Lippincott, deceased. Lot no. 5, to be sold on the seventh day of the sale—the seventeenth day of Twelfth Month, December, next—was the...