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Yeah. The mound. Have you been there?

And this here: https://boydsmaps.com/#21.00/39.686985/-74.693719/us3depShade1/0.00/0.00 hmmmm......

We've discussed forge slag and its high iron content on this site before, but while poking around Upper Hampton Forge the other day, I got to wondering why the forge slag wasn't brought back to the furnace to be used again.

Much sympathy, Piney Warden. Was this from the lone star tick?

Thinking out loud here... Perhaps there was a landowner with the last name Appleby or the such?

The canal feeds into the raceway downstream of the dam, so it would have been to deliver more waterpower to the forge.

Looks like it comes from a bogus wikipedia edit from January 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/124.199.14.241 They cite the following article as a source: https://www.nj.com/burlington/2016/09/access_to_pine_barrens_landmark_restricted_due_to.html

That is what we call a Piney hole. Just the result of many donuts being driven.

The depression between the road and the canal and between the arrows pointing to the sluice gate and the feeder canal is quite interesting. I could see that water would have been diverted from the canal into the depression and was likely controlled by a gate. But for what purpose?

Poked around the Upper Forge site and made this little map:

I think we can confidently rule out #3. The area in question is covered in cedar swamp that is demarcated by the braided area.

I believe this is the likely location of the tavern: https://boydsmaps.com/#14.00/39.755656/-74.753154/njgin1930/0.00/0.00

Nope.

They once called a mud puddle (created by off-roading, ironically) a vernal pool for the same reason. Where is Funtown?

Fun stuff. "Exposures reveal bedforms and sorting that can only be deposited by stream discharges that were orders of magnitude beyond the scale of the largest modern runoff events." This has been my understanding as well. Mark, do you see it this way?

I've seen them plow over sunning Slider turtles at the Forks. The d-bags that tend to ride jet skis have no regard for wildlife, other people recreating and home owners along the river.

Nevermind! I didn't think to do the obvious. Compare these two: https://boydsmaps.com/#15.62/39.745670/-74.840797/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 https://boydsmaps.com/#15.62/39.739815/-74.835909/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 Farr was correct.

I'm getting consistently higher elevations towards Wildcat Branch. https://boydsmaps.com/#18.90/39.742623/-74.835899/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 https://boydsmaps.com/#19.55/39.744942/-74.840199/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00

From William Farr's "Watermills of Camden County": "One of the courses of the road return was to “Cooper’s Small Dam,” which had been erected where the road crosses Coopers Branch, the name apparently being in contrast to the bigger dam at Burnt Mill. The small dam was presumably built by Isaac...

Bob, what is this? First shows up in the 1956 aerial. https://boydsmaps.com/#17.00/39.852054/-74.307740/midatlidar/0.00/0.00