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Mine too. I just finished writing a recording a song about this special place: https://gabrielcoia.bandcamp.com/track/the-atsion-lock

"Also the ruins and iron work of an old sawmill..." Iron work?? Help me out here.

I'd like to figure out whereabouts the buildings stood. What an eye-opening collection of ads you found there!

I'm inclined to think that 1782 advertisement was for the Sleepy Mill tract. Good work, Jim.

Fantastic find, Jim!

Ed, we're looking at 1799 for this particular legal battle between Atsion and Batsto. I'm not sure what sort of lock we're looking at. A flash lock, as opposed to a pound lock, seems to make more sense, given William Richards' complaint.

Ed, tell me what exactly is throwing you off. Let's get to the bottom of it all.

Yes, Ed, that's the location of the Atsion lock. Here's what we know: The dam and lock was originally constructed by John Estelle around 1765. The dam was rebuilt in 1792 by the Atsion Co. They also constructed a new lock. Whether or not another mill was ever rebuilt there is unknown. I'd...

Jerseyman and those interested, I've been thinking more about this, and I have some ideas and observations. Pierce may not have been wrong after all. Perhaps the original lock in Estell's dam was utilized by Batsto-bound ore boats prior to 1774, when the furnace at Atsion was constructed...

Perhaps a silly question, but where would these boats have been headed, and for what purpose? Arthur Pierce suggested that the lock was used by ore boats headed to Batsto Furnace, but the aforesaid (hehe) legal document would seem to preclude this notion.

Jerseyman, What do you suppose would have been the necessary draft for these ore boats?

Thanks, Jerseyman! Would it not have been easier to have simply removed the dam? Rebuilding the dam and constructing the lock seems like an awfully lot of unnecessary work. Just thinking aloud here....

My buddy thought as much when we discussed this recently. I wonder how old it is and who built it. I'm told there was a CCC camp thereabouts.

Also, why are these documents so hopelessly verbose?

Here is an excerpt from a document concerning a legal battle between William Richards and the Atsion Company: “That said Henry Drinker and John Drinker about 5 years ago, when the said saw mill and dam commonly called and known by the name of Estells mill on the said Atsion River had decayed...

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As for "flash locks", I had just come across this term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_lock

Yes, Ed. More specifically, here: http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.72313753852399&lng=-74.69485837619783&z=17&type=nj1995&gpx=

I'm referring to the locks that once existed at Estell's mill on Atsion Creek. I'm wondering what they would have looked like and how they functioned.

Jerseyman, Would these have been "flash locks"?