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No worries! Yeah, we believe you. :p

Ha! I was about to ask him to do the same thing!

Thanks, Pineywoman. Just to clear a few things up: Mullica Hill and Lower Bank are different places. The latter is on the Mullica River, whereas Mullica Hill is in Gloucester County. It was Mullica's sons, including Eric Jr., who settled Mullica Hill. Eric Sr. is buried in an unmarked grave in...

Better yet, I'll be doing a blow-out tide ASAP I'll let ya know.

Come along next time. :p

Thank you, good sir!

Thanks, Jerseyman! I'll have to try to take a look at the Clark Family papers the next time I make it out to Trenton.

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Just a FYI for those interested. Heston makes no mention of James Clarke in his later works, and attributes the settlement of Clark's Landing to Thomas Clark.

Bob, I suppose that depends on how you define "parent river". The Bass is a relatively big tributary of the Mullica, but much smaller than its neighbor the Wading. The tributaries coming in from the South side of the Mullica don't get the recognition they deserve. Lots of history on your...

Charles F. Green, in his short work, "Pleasant Mills, New Jersey; Lake Nescochague: A Place of Olden Days", states that the Lenape called the Mullica "Mineola", and relates a supposed true story of a battle on the river (possibly at Blood Point?) between Lenape and Iroquois warriors. As the tale...

In her colorful article, "Batsto and the Bloomaries", Carmita De Salma Jones states that the Mullica River was known to the Lenape as "Minnelola" (Little Water). Does anyone know of any other information that might vindicate this? The article can be read here...

I really wouldn't know, Guy. Do you remember there being a campground at the location by that name?

A different angle is always good. Not much is known about Lower Forge (Washington Forge). Arthur Pierce writes in Iron in the Pines (pg.42) that Lower Forge was operated (and possibly constructed) by Samuel Richards and that it was in operation until 1850. I'd have to guess that the forge was...

Thank you, sir!

Ed, You are right: It's on the Swago River at Martha Pond. Here is what Parnes says about Calico Ridge in Paddling the Jersey Pines Barrens: "The pond is an open area dotted with cedar- and bush-covered islands of assorted sizes. Pines and cedars crowd the shore. Because it is extremely...

Bob, I was drinking Lagunita's Daytime IPA today. A hoppy but modest brew at 4.65%. Yummy.

Gibby, Gordon's Gazetteer (1834) says: "Besides the furnace,there are here a forge, grist-mill, and three saw-mills. The furnace makes from eight hundred to nine hundred tons of castings, and the forge from one hundred and fifty to two hundred tons of bar iron annually. This estate...

Excellent find, Guy.