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    Baileytown and other Cumberland county sites

    I know a lot of sites in the millville game reserve out around menantico and peaslees and a real old trailess graveyard out by dorchester.anybody down in theis southwestern corner of the barrens wants to learn some new sites. what I"d like to learn is how to age these ruins.I know sandstone...
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    Jokerman, I saw your tracks today.I was at the lightning tree and someone has partially dragged it outta the way but I still could"nt get around it.If I"d of had a saw I coulda took one more branch off and made it.What were you drivin?That one branch was pointing south at me and I didnt wand...
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    yes i noticed the grassy patch and i plan on going back with a light and a rope and dropping it down that well.the caver in me can"t resist.never did find the graves but i wont quit till i do:-) Al
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    Went to union clay works yesterday and found a new cellar hole I didn’t know about and a well apparently quite deep with roots crowing across it.I also found some clay pipes left stacked against a tree and a dpression in the pine needles where a jug of some sort had been sitting for some time...
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    Yes I would like the locations to these places.My e mail is manumuskin@aol.com and as to graves across the street from head of the river cemetery their are about a half dozen or so across head of river road between the road and mcneals branch.their older then the ones in the main graveyard and...
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    stizkidz, yes i would like the locations to those sites.my e mail is manumuskin@aol.com and yes I have seen those graves across the street at head of the river.I used to live a few miles from there.their between the head of river road and mcneals branch.their visible from the road in winter if...
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    no offense taken:-)I"ll find it on my own.I can track pretty good and I have a pretty good nose too.Take me awhile but I always find what I"m after. Al
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    Oh bruset pleas tell me where!Please,please,please.Oh sorry i shouldn"t beg in public but I really like old hidden graveyards.I have one down here in cumberland county that has 4 unreadable sandstone tombstones and one that appears to be granite and all i can read is A.W. 1790.no trail to it and...
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    Bruset, Has you or anyone you know of ever ran into or heard of an old cemetery in the vicinity of Half Way? I was reading a book on pine barren history maybe 6 or 7 years ago that claimed their was a cemetery in the woods with no trail to it in this vicinity but I forget the name of the...
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    here ya go Bruset https://boydsmaps.com/tz/#z=18&n=4409263&e=550720&s=25&size=l It"s on the east side of the road and this location is accurate to within a tenth of a mi i believe in either direction.I didn"t mark it with a gps but it"s right beside the road.Look for tall grass...
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    reply thought i was the only one that hiked in water shoes:-)Mines about shot out. I found two cellar holes at red oak grove.the very spot listed as such on my gps.nice mossy holes too and deep.break your leg if you don"t watch as their surrounded by tall grass. Al
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    Ellis Adams and Calico

    another one theirs another foundation on the other side of allen road then the one shown in the gallery. Al
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    Red Oak Grove (and Union Clay Graves)

    After exploring the underground tunnels in pasadena which I jus found this week I headed to red oak grove.tried to find it once before but this time i did.Any history on this place?Who lived there?when?did he work at the clay works?Theirs another settlement about a mile toward the clay works...
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    Ellis Adams and Calico

    brickyard the brickyard is definitely not the same age as Martha.I don"t know when cinder block was invented but I know martha predates cinder block.I went to the brickyard today thatnks to your map and yes I had been there years ago.I believe it is probably a caved in hunting camp.Theirs...
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    Ellis Adams and Calico

    been there Bruset, Thanks for the topo/I"ve been to this site but didn"t know it was calico.On the old map I downloaded off this site it places Calico at the Ellis Adams farm house.I thought these ruins were a fallen down gun club.I thought Calico was the same age as Martha.In becks book all...
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    Ellis Adams and Calico

    I need help! I"ve found Ellis Adams Farm house and been back 3 times and have been up and down that road from martha and harrisville clean out to the bombing range gate on the way to warren grove and can"t find this brick field pictured on this sites gallery.Where is it?All I found at the...
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    trip report for 8-2 and 8-3-03

    I"m a dummy I just checked my modern day topo and the sanitarium is show on it.coulda saved myself the trouble of looking for it.Your right njvike their probably are more foundations.I thought I was the only one who looked for houses on topos out in the boonies and then went sniffin for cellar...
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    trip report for 8-2 and 8-3-03

    to answer some questions I drive a suzuki vitara 4by4 and I don"t care about the scratches.give me a trail just a little wider then a 4 wheeler would make and I can do it.my truck looks like it"s been thru a war. Bruset I wanted this in the ghost town forum.I must of messed up,thanks for moving...
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    trip report for 8-2 and 8-3-03

    I went out this weekend with the intention of revisiting some old sites and finding some new ones I’ve found out about off this website. Let me start with Friday night All we did this night since it was getting dark and this was more or less a joy ride we headed for apple pie hill with the...
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    Snakes Alive

    garndaddy bill told me he has a pine snake out there he calls grandad.he"s over 7 ft long and is 22 years old and this was 2 years ago so if he"s still around he"s 24.if he"s 24 and grandad,what am I at 39:-( Al
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