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Guy: If you climb over the guardrail and enter the woods right by the historical marker, you will find the road by walking eastward. You'll know it when you see it! There is only about quarter-mile or less of the roadway present in the woods today, but it is worth the experience of standing on...

Mike: Munn Lane is a good alternative to parking on Brace Road. However, be forewarned that the portion of the Salem Road nearest to Munn Lane is private property and other trespassers have gotten in trouble in the past. Just thought you should know. When are you planning to visit? Best...

dragoncjo: Don't interpret my role as a historian to provide a window on the past as any type of personal endorsement of the subject matter at hand. In plainer idiom, Please don't shoot the messenger (or the piano player, for that matter!). I'm just providing the information to initiate...

Evening Courier (Camden), 7 May 1927, p. 3 [spelling original throughout] Mount Holly, May 7.—Asay Pittman, who resides at Mt. Misery, deep in the pines, and known as a famous snake catcher, had the unusual experience the past few days of catching 28 rattle snakes in five holes. This task...

Stizkidz: That's a good guess, considering the deaths that have occurred in Pasadena, but Mount Misery derives its name from the Mount Misery Sawmill, established by Frenchman Peter Bard, a land speculator. He constructed the mill in 1723 and then conveyed the sawmill to John Murrow during...

Folks: By now we all know the story of the Brooksbrae Brick Company and the Wheatland Manufacturing Company works in Pasadena, Ocean County, but what about the human toll associated with the operations and the town of Pasadena? Henry Beck tells the story, perhaps apocryphal, of Bill and...

Folks: The Keith Line-Lawrence Line disagreement has been a long-standing debate between the East and West Jersey Proprietors. In reality Keith shot his line on an incorrect trajectory, which is why he ended his line at the South Branch of the Raritan near what, today, is Three Bridges...

Folks: Of the proposed developments at Atsion, Fruitland came first. In 1862, William C. Patterson acquired the northern half of the Atsion tract and four years later incorporated the Fruitland Improvement Company. He planned to develop a sugar plantation on the property and intended to plant...

TeeGate: In conducting a bit of research for you I discovered that the company you referenced in Pennsylvania did not incorporate until the early 1940s. However, I think the firm that owned Howardsville might be this one: Penn Produce Company, 418 Henderson Street, Jersey City, New Jersey...

Mike: I'm glad you enjoyed the discussion about Rev War activity in the Camden and Gloucester county area. Please post your impressions of the Old Salem Road after placing your feet upon its well worn pathway. There are many other sections, now unused, of this ancient roadway, along with other...

Ben: I absolutely concur with your rule regarding specific site locations, but in this case, the state already identified the location with a plaque erected in the 1920s. Furthermore, other than standing on the road itself, there is nothing at this location in a current state of fragility...

Scott and Steve: The Helis Stock Farm was once the Rancocas Stud Farm of Pierre Lorillard, a man who amassed a fortune from tobacco and other enterprises. He raised some of the nation's finest racehorses at this farm and spared no expense in outfitting the farm with comforts and conveniences...

Guy: Looking at historic 15-minute USGS topo quads, I see the West Jersey Cranberry Meadows north of Goshen along the Mullica, but based on the advertisement, the Sorden Bogs were definitely over towards Dingletown. Best regards, Jerseyman

Jeff: Thanks for the information about Bill Pittman. If you ever get to meet him, let me know and I will share photocopies of the Bible's contents if you think he'd be interested! Best regards, Jerseyman

Ben: I think you are correct in your assertion, but there is some tantalizing inuendo--I would not even classify it as evidence--that the manufactory may have operated for a relatively short period of time, hence I wrote my statement worded the way I did. Best regards, Jerseyman

Oriental: I suspect your journal, which, by the way, sounds fascinating, is from the Sorden farm. Here is a newspaper notice from 22 November 1905: By virtue of an order to sell real estate to pay debts of the estate of John H. Sorden, deceased, issued out of the Orphans' Court of...

Funny you should ask, Ben. The person selling the Bible was an antique dealer out of Allentown, New Jersey. I had already planned to email him to learn how he acquired it. It would be great to assemble the provenance for the volume and trace it back to the family. I'll let you know. Best...

Well, Woodjin, to go even farther off-topic, two nights ago I won on ebay the family Bible of arguably Upton's most famous resident--Asa Pittman! I can't wait to take a look at it and see the family recordings in it as well as other items that Asa may have laid in the Bible. I'll let you know...

Folks: While conducting research today, I found this interesting item in a 6 March 1918 newspaper: Whatever hope remained of the government being able to utilize the Hanover Farmstract, between Whitesbog and Whitings for the great new munitions plant which it was at first proposed to locate...

Guy: Bullock's given name was Anthony and he first established the stop along the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1885 to ship cranberries. Best regards, Jerseyman