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Coppersisters, The things you remember! Yes, there was a seven-seater right next to the ice house. Yuk. I too remember it on our visits, many with your family. Budd Wilson, Batsto's archeologist, just confirmed the outhouse and its position next to the ice house. He's going to find a picture of...

I’m tickled that so many Algonquin names survived here in the Pine Barrens, even if their form and meaning has long drifted away! For example, I was surprised to learn that Atco does not commemorate a transportation service, but as “Atco Atco” has native roots – something like Atquatqua or...

Cool beans Oriental. I will use hereafter use "Munyon" with a Y. Is Aserdaten also sited on the edge of furnace land? Some have asked about the places I had listed along the Weymouth Tract border (Figure above in earlier post): Peters) ≥1830s since homes are timber framed, incl. “cigar shed”...

Absolutely, Bride of Fire! My gosh, kinfolk from Milmay. You are at the right place. I credit your family for a great deal of the sand in my shoes, teaching me how to appreciate this place.

There is an ongoing exhibit of images from a 2013 Polar expedition at the The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University, which provides a glimpse into just how awesome (daunting?) New Jersey's Ice Age world might have been. A good excuse to visit is an upcoming venue, CLIMATE CHANGE: A PANEL...

See you there? (reproduced with SJCHC's permission) At least Landis no longer thinks he's a tree! I love Vineland's quirky history. Carved out of Pine Barrens wilderness as agrarian utopia, there were ~50 inhabitants in 1861, and ~5500 by 1865. S-M

Jerseyman, Many thanks for the insight. There seems to be three shared characteristics between Watering Place and Munion: 1) a reliable water source at a stream's knickpoint where sapping springs occur; 2) a busy trail system; and 3) a significant property boundary. Which do you prefer...

Good question, Manumuskin! No, the ConRail workers quickly conceded the point when I showed them that the signal shed, which is always within the ROW, was over 100-feet away; and the ROW was only 60-feet wide. The survey error is that obvious - no contest. Besides, it's not the first time...

Yet again today I had to ask a maintenance crew to remove themselves from my property. I don't blame the workers, as the siding construction error is ConRail's leasee's (my municipality's) problem. Technically my municipality created something like an attractive nuisance when they redeveloped my...

Does Munion Field border a large furnace tract? Here's a figure I put together of places associated with coaling along Weymouth Tract's western edge (red dash), although the funace owned land beyond the classic tract border. I see the stations as last-exit truck stops before you enter furnace...

The Cook/Vermeule map seems to indicate a cultivated field (pasture?) was here in 1886: http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/maps/cookmaps/Vicinity of Barnegat bay.shtml Does that seem right? I am truly astounded at the detail these old maps have. My guess is the Munion Field up there in “North...