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Bob, Tatra is tasty. Thanks for pointing it out. I finally found it in Hammonton. It's light but with surprising depth and to local style – flat. Kind'a like Christian Schmidt's beer used to be in returnables, but fuller. The wife and I had it with sushi four our 26th anniversary. Years ago I...

I'm meeting tomorrow with an author who is writing a manuscript on Landis, and will query him on the vexing potential of a Klein–Kline–Kline–Cline connection. Even Landis had a different name, Landi, six generations prior when the family was in northern Italy en route to Geneva, before they...

Tracker Jim, I want to know about Kline's Tavern. I associate Kline and Shoemaker as German heritage. Wilber & Hand (1889: Illustrated History of the Town of Hammonton: With an Account of its Soil, Climate and Industries) talk about old Dutchys as the first settlers, as does Heston (Dutchtown)...

Did anyone notice that the Sailor Boy Tavern was owned by Charles Shoemaker and heirs? The Desolation Pond tavern is listed on the 1872 Beers map as property owned by the Shoemakers estate. Other similarities exist: 1) both parcels are square; 2) Sailor Boy on “New” and “Old” Old Egg...

I was a wee tyke, so barely remember. Is this part of the Atsion estate land that Michael Landis, Charles K's dad, bought from Coughlin of Philadelphia in 1860? MG Landis was the silent money-bags behind the scenes. I did a report on Margaret Mead's home for the Pinelands Commission some years...

Just a short update. I dove deeper into the Clement collection (Historical Society of Pennsylvania; also Gloucester County Historical Society) and found two more maps that help with the story we're trying to put together. First is the 1794 West Mill tract survey as “now Atsion Land" (Clement...

Tracker Jim. You provide awesome material to contemplate! Sadly, early charcoal stations (some jug taverns?) don’t always show up on maps. Take the Weymouth border places presented earlier. Abbotts is an existing timber-frame structure built between 1820 and 1830 yet fails to appear on any map...

Many thanks, great survey! By 1762 the Rockwood area is being singled out for its utility. I assume North is up since Batsto lands are to the right. The distance between Plymouth and Hammonton Roads is about a half-mile (2640’), so the 1872 Beers map Goose Pond is ~40 acres in size. The Leeds...

Rockwood bog appears to be the remnants of a big spung called "Goose Pond". See: https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/linear-mounds-in-stafford-wma.7472/#post-87913 https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/goose-pond.6965/#post-82511 The 1872 Beers map shows a large spung about where...

Teegate, I watched the South River head drop a foot in a couple weeks, after decent stream flow through the summer. Tracker Jim, I like long shots, so here are a couple added clues to stir the pot. Even if unrelated, the information provided may be useful towards other pursuits. Note how...

More mystifying is that a Deputy Attorney General I understand is paid per diem by the Pinelands Commission to sit in on Pinelands Commission meetings. I have tried for a month to have someone from the New Jersey Division of Law explain DAG Sean Moriarty’s role in New Lisbon, but the Attorney...

Buckhorn plantain (Plantago lanceolata) is the Milmay cure for chiggers and poison ivy. Take a handful of leaves, roll them between the palms of your hands until macerated into a wet ball. Rub the wet ball into the itchy pustules until a clear liquid oozes. Repeat the rolling process and use the...

Which Buckshutem, the one in Cumberland or Monmouth County? The latter is a Buckshootem Branch now called Bannen Meadow Branch just south of Wyckoff Mills on US Route 9 (Litowinski, undated, History of Howell). It’s on the northern fringe of Pine Barrens. Buckshootem Bridge is probably the Fort...

Spungs are better called intermittent ponds, a term that Pinelands scientists prefer to use. Vernal pools are pockets of water filled by surface runoff. Spungs are instead fed by grounwater passing through them. Wade through a spung and you will feel cold pockets of water contrasting with...

Oh, about the intersection of Atlantic, Gloucester and Cumberland Counties – you mean Royalton, a little-known c.1891 Jewish agricultural settlement. It was one of at least 18 Pinelands back-to-the-land schemes to be hatched along a railway. I was told by an eye witness that shacks existed into...

The passing of Mary-Ann Thompson, a giant but behind the scenes hero of the Pines, has been confirmed through several reliable sources. She owned and managed an incredible certified-organic operation at a one-of-a-kind nineteenth-century farm that is best described as a "Last of the Mohicans"...

You might want to read the Journal of Rev. Richard Swain, transcribed and edited by Robert Bevis Steelman, Old First United Methodist Church, West Long Branch, NJ, January 12, 1977, 37 p. It's been a while since Rev. Steelman and I were in touch (2005), but I will try to track him down. His...

It was common for farmers to work for furnaces during off season, often by or in support of coaling. Unlike company coal-ground coalers, they were not bound to the company store. Ole Uncle Jenk's family settled my property c.1880 from a remote home-base in Newfield. They had portable cabins that...

Before we got too far along I feel it important to provide a little background. Coppersisters is the younger sibling to my best school mate, and her my sister's. Her brother and I met the first day of kindergarten and lived just five houses apart on the same avenue; there being three-miles...

OK, so you wonder why they took it down, then argue you're not crazy?! Something about that line, I love the smell of napalm in the morning! Uncle Budd thinks it was moved, then discarded by the 70s.