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RAllen: To locate a used copy of the book, I suggest either abebooks.com or addall.com. You should be able to pick-up the paperbound edition for $25.00 or less. Absolutely correct in attaching the name Zane to the cemetery. However, the stone memorial marker that Bill Leap had made for the...

RednekF350: Your striking and beautiful photos definitely could set the mood for Blue Monday (22 January 2007), reportedly the most melancholy day of the entire year. Thanks for sharing your art! Best regards, Jerseyman

RAllen: Glad you enjoyed the discussion! I think I've look at your website before. The route to the fort for Jonas Cattell might have been down Warwick Road to Davis Road to the bridge over Big Timber (most likely) or out the Salem Road to Mount Ephraim, where he could have crossed Harrison's...

Guy: The cemetery is better known as the Ashbrook Burial Ground and is located in the Glendora section of Gloucester Township on Station Avenue. Several years ago I participated in a big ceremony celebrating the cemetery and the Hessian burials. The leader of this celebration was Bill Leap...

Neil in SJ: To state Piney Boy's comments more plainly, when you go out metal detecting and you begin to remove objects from the ground, you are destroying the spatial context of that object and how it relates to objects around it. If the site remained undisturbed until archaeologists...

Neil in SJ: I discussed the cannons earlier in this thread, but for a recap, the Hessians dumped as many as three guns into Big Timber Creek off of the forerunner of Clement's Bridge because they used the gun carriages to transport the wounded back to the ferries in Camden. The did NOT dump...

Neil in SJ: Well, aren't you the funny guy?!?!?!?! :rolleyes: Regarding the routing of Cornwallis and the troops that traveled with him out of Haddonfield, I would like to see your primary source evidence for your contention that they moved over Bonnie's Bridge, because I certainly have...

Guy: The JCRR maps you found are known as valuation maps or val maps for short. All US railroads prepared these maps of all their routes at the behest of the Interstate Commerce Commission beginning in 1913. In part, Congress authorized the ICC to determine a basis for the transportation costs...

Steve: The formation of the West Jersey Homeopathic Dispensary and Hospital Association dates to 5 June 1891. I should correct my previous post to indicate that some more recently formed companies operate today with the words "West Jersey" in their title, but I really think few of their...

Folks: The locational phenomenon known today as "South Jersey" has only existed in the state's collective consciousness since the days of the Civil War. The first public use of the term "South Jersey" appears in the Hammonton newspaper, the South Jersey Republican. We could debate ad nuseum...

Mike: Nice photos and I'm glad we inspired you to continue the tour solo! One of the sites we passed on our way in to see the Kay house was the home of Malcolm Wells, constructed in 1956 into the side of a hill. In case you didn't know it, Mike, Wells designed the covered bridge for...

Ed: Bonnie's Bridge is located in the Barclay Farms section of Cherry Hill just off Route 70. If you want more specific location information, please PM me in keeping with Ben's request not to provide detailed locational information for sites in a fragile state. During the tour we actually...

LARGO: There is much truth in what you write. There are few GOOD Pinelands fiction books for children (or adults, for that matter!), even though many of the authors hail from Jersey. Collectively, they demonstrate, for the most part, complete ignorance of their story setting. Regarding the...

James: While the directional labels can be confusing, remember that the East and West Jersey Proprietors originally intended the line to divide the state into two equitable proprietorships. Hence, they placed the terminal points for the province line with equality in mind. If they had run...

LARGO: Here is a fairly comprehensive list of Pineland fiction. If anyone can add to it, I would be delighted to hear from them! Best regards, Jerseyman P.S. I should add here that this list comprises books about the Pinelands only and does not touch upon any books about the coastal...