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Thanks guys for the input... I think it mostly satisfies my curiosity. So I take it that there have been several "Quails Inn" over the years. The fact that the Inns seem to move around (logically or physically) has kinda confused me. What bothered me was the disappearance of something I...

Patience... I think you will find several people on this forum that are extremely knowledgeable once they discover this thread. Personally, I have been able to track the rails from Lakehurst to Pot Elizabeth using Google Earth. Here's a map from 1941...

Hey guys. I'm back with one of my odd posts that likely don't fit perfectly in the forum. ;-) I'm sure most of us have visited either Historic Smithville or Leeds Point for some exploration. Well, at the corner of US9 and Alt-561 you have (counterclockwise from NW) Historic Smithville, the...

Thanks, Boyd. I don't get back to the site too often and missed those threads. BKNJ

Really? Cool. Do you have a description or map of the area the Lenape Farms WMA covers? I'll have to take a drive out sometime soon and visit the rubble. BKNJ

Buena Vista Ave is modern day Harding Hwy/US Route 40. I didn't realize the road kept the name into Hamilton Township. Does anyone know if the entire stretch of US40 between Mays Landing and Buena was called Buena Vista Ave? It was my understanding that roadway didn't extend that far before...

Bonnie, I'm afraid the Walker Forge Mansion has been gone for 10~15 years... either burned or torn down. BKNJ

Pancoast's Mill was owned by Ambrose Pancoast. His wife was Rebecca Pancoast. I don't know if they were related to William Pancoast. I also don't know exactly when they lived... but they are buried in the nearby Friendship M.E. Church, so that info could likely be procured with a road trip.

The Pancoast Rd in Buena Vista is actually Pancoast Mill Rd... and is associated with the nearby Pancoast Mill Lake, and the mill that was once there. Owned by Ambrose Pancoast. His wife was Rebecca and he apparently helped fund the nearby Friendship M.E. Church. They are both buried there...

Cglock, I'm impressed that you have managed in a short time to find something interesting that I missed in my years of exploring the woods at Stockton. What part of the Lake Fred is this path along? JimGib is correct, there were cabins on the courts side of the lake, but I can't imagine them...

I was directed to check out the corner of Brewster and Harding Hwy, by a PM... and its interesting that not one, but TWO houses disappear from there, as well... one in 1970~1972 and one after 1977, I suppose. But by revisiting the old aerial maps, I find it interesting how late Dale's...

First, I revisited the HistoricAerials, and either the years of the maps have changed, or my memory is faulty... but it looks like the window of the house move was not 1968~1970... but probably 1972 or 1973. LakesGirl. to answer your question, the house was moved to Lorraine and Harding Hwy...

This is a very personal mystery, and is only very tangental to this forum, but since people here have a deep and broad knowledge, I figured I'd ask. The house I grew up in was not built there. The house was built in the late '50s... and in the late '60s it was moved to its current location on...

You're not the first person I've heard talk about collapsed stacks... but from the research I read about, their where only ever two main stacks... that each stack had 4 kilns attached to it, for a total of 8 kilns. Any other stacks I read about seemed either fairly minor or had been...

Well, I assume you mean the planning the modern rendition of the Black Horse Pike (answering my original question), but its my understanding that the name Black Horse Pike dates back to the 1850s. Interesting, so the pictures on historicaerials.com from the 1930s must be the creation of the...

Everything I've ever known about the Black Horse Pike seems to indicate that its been around for a long time, stretching from Camden To AC. Problem is, most of the maps I've seen, don't seem include the part from Weymouth-Malaga Road to the Hamilton Mall. It seems that most traffic before...

I could believe that is burned... I'm just surprised I didn't read it in the papers back then. Private game preserve, thats funny... its marked QFARM in the Atlantic County GIS. Permanent Pasture, I guess...

The mansion was at the southern terminus of Walkers Forge road... at Rt. 50. In the map link you posted, follow the road to Rt 50, and the map is marked Estellville. The house is just above and towards the left of the T in Estellville. Of course, from my memory, the road is not very passable...

I've spent the 18 or so years out of the South Jersey history business. I used to be fairly well read up, from spending hours at the Atlantic County Libraries trying to learn everything about everything concerning local history. Exhausting the resources at the time, in the library and my...