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...or benefits whoever can take it. Remember, under redevelopment a redeveloper has vested rights like eminent domain and tax abatement. Every house, business, and parcel of land within Richland Village redevelopment area is now considered blighted, and can be seized by any developer. According...

Pinelands staffers are hell-bent on making all 47 Villages, without exception, sewered growth zones. The DEP and the Office of Planing Advocacy are not advocating Village inclusion. This incentive is 100% Pinelands Commission driven by every record I have found. Principal Planner Paul...

Bob, Below are excerpts from my recent public testimony for DEP Docket Number 10-15-09, the comment dated November 17, 2015. Water Quality Management Planning is the final step in making Pinelands Villages growth areas. The testimony period has extended to December 28, 2015...

Here's another little-known tidbit on the New Kuban Cossacks. As I understand they were charged with watching after the Kalmyks, who were to emigrate to Buena as well but soon relocated to Medford and Howell. It is unclear if the Kalmyks spent much time in Buena. Here's an article about that...

There are 47 Pinelands Villages that encompass ~24,000 acres. With their new inclusion as State Sewer Service Areas, you can expect radical changes to village character. Richland Village is “a prototype for the immediate region as well as the State” (BVT Redevelopment Plan, 2006: 1). Richland...

This is very interesting news, Jerseyman. Smiths is the old Bushy Place (aka Vanamans), where the original Methodist meeting was held prior to Friendship Church's construction. Maybe Methodists were less sober than I thought, with watering holes flanking either side! When did temperance really...

Well, buy me a drink at the Jack Puddin'; West Jersey Bob might just be right! He's been trying to document a tavern there for some time. Jeseryman, I do hope you can find a tavern record. Would that icon use hold true for Berrys and Smiths on Weymouth Road (New Kuban) too? S-M

Willy, It is likely the settlement of Jack Pudding, about where the Liepe Farm is today in Germania, and is probably named for the Dennis family that lived there. The settlement is on an perplexing trail, a southern equivalent to Old Forks Road, both of which might have been later replaced...

TR, No need to complicate things. I think Wescotts lived in Wescotville, where there was an early millpond on the Old Forks Road. On Clements (Volume 3, page 4) there appears to be a mill and millpond on Long Meadow Branch (Hammonton Creek). Sorry I don’t have a lot of time to double check for...

I feel coyotes are not a danger, unless you go out of your way to provoke them. Having spent much of my youth wandering the woods, this is my half-century plus woods faunal experience: At five I was lost in deep snowy woods behind the farm for a couple hours, but a trusty dog “Trooper” led me...

JH, I am the last place on the edge of a big wood patch bordering the Village footprint. As such coyote like to pack at a big sand hickory, called the Resting Tree, that marks my property boundary from Thomas’ old charcoal camp and livery. During daylight hours and on quite nights I have no...

In 1854 Clayton Allen, Secretary of the Weymouth Farm and Agricultural Company (I argue the prototype for Hammonton, Vineland, Fruitland development), uses the following "esq." as references that will attest to the Weymouth/New Germany (Folsom & Newtonville) land quality: Stephen Colwell; Joseph...

MB, Have you read a family history by Turp (1975)? While I'm not partial to the author's poetic license with his ancestors, the work provides the author's interpretation of early dynamics to Swedes associated with West Jersey, including those in the Pines. Turp, R.K., 1975: West Jersey: Under...

MB, I have some good news; Swedish dynamics are relevant to the Pines! Unfortunately their presence was not well recorded. I like to joke that history always begins with the English (maybe Scots), and the Swedes just weren’t white enough to count! One anecdotal account by old-timers put a...

I was playing with google and came across a pertinent digital book: Gans E.W. 1900. A Pennsylvania Pioneer: Biographical Sketch with Report of the Executive Committee of the Ball Estate Association. Pages 306–386 are the Jersey interests, mostly Weymouth and Martha land. Many deeds and their...

All, I am tickled to be part of this great group! I thank my dear old friend Jerseyman for the original invitation here. There is hardly a day, whether through maps or blog, that I don’t learn something new here. I can’t wait to see what new aspect of Piney insight the next post will bring...

Landis is partners with Allen and Matlack at the Weymouth Farm and Agricultural Company (Elwood, Newtonville, Folsom, founded 1854, prospectus below).

I've asked the VHAS curator to be on the lookout for Atsion-related archives. Patt is amazing!

Peer review really helps hone our accounts! Although a county concept was not fully dead (poor choice of word?) with Carruth’s demise in 1875, the Fruitland namesake appears in 1871; good catch. One source for the Landis County narrative was an unpublished manuscript by Professor Harry...

Jerseyman, As always I do enjoy your feedback! I provide suggestions to stimulate discourse and conjure possible connections worthy of consideration. Heston (1924: 271) states, "Michael G. Landis, the father of Charles K. Landis, was a merchant in Lancaster,Pennsylvania, and afterwards a...