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Thursday night, June 25 – electric! Much better than the 10-day blackout associated with the June 29, 2012 derecho.

Yet again, it's back to the stone age. Not much tree damage, but 500 homes on our trunk are scheduled to be without phone and electric service until Saturday, June 27. Posting at the Atlantic County Library in Mays Landing. S-M

Like Milmay's "Cannon Range" tract, https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/pine-barrens-unusual-names.10547/page-2#post-126562 Atsion also was a proving ground candidate, but deemed too swampy.

Could the stippling indicate a boulderfield (frost-fractured rubble)?

I too worry about the inevitable. Development policy needs to be driven by science, not politics. If past behavior is relevant then we have not reached our normal interglacial highstand. That shoreline can be seen here on LiDAR imagery as a bathtub ring around the Delaware Bay...

Yep, my bank has a branch.

Manumuskin, We have similar tastes! You picked a favorite location of mine, and one very dear to my heart. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/travelers-forecast-for-the-pine-barrens.7773/page-2#post-91841 I never heard anyone add “Branch” to that waterway, which behaves more like a...

I learned at Cook College, the old State Ag School, that they are technically over-ripened ovary hairs, so not really a fruit. That's why the seeds are on the outside.

I have a possible geologic explanation for "sweetwater," which according to historical lore is associated with taste during long storage: "The same biological agents that helped form bog iron turned water in streams a brownish color, but it was not dirty; rather it was cleaner than most water...

I believe this year's pollen crop to be the heaviest in my memory. Lack of rainfall allowed for its recycling, so the dust ended up everywhere. This is the first year I've had a scratchy throat from it. Awful.

Cannon Range is interesting in itself. There is a reference to it in Cumberland County Old Names and Places, anonymous, compiled c. 1915: Cannon Range Avenue – This is a road on the Cumberland Tract [the 20,000-acre Richland Colony]. In 1895, Edward R. Wood ran out a line from a point on the...

Gerania, Are you talking about Shirley near Elmer? I don't believe that one was a Jewish settlement, although a couple families did settle the area. According to my Salem County source, Bonny Beth, the settlement is old and renamed after a social novel by Charlotte Brontë (1849). S-M

Kinda ironic. I'm up to eighteen Jewish settlements in the Pines at the turn of the nineteenth century. I made a map of 25 South Jersey agricultural land-based schemes for the 2014 Vernacular Architecture Forum Proceedings (see page 58), but there are more to add...

Who do you think I learned from! OK, if you must – with very high difficulty: 5) Osborne Village, next to Lindsay Village. Where the hermit Nature Boy of Java lived. 6) Gardenville, a Jewish settlement, statue. 7) North Newark, more statues. All are welcome to try at your own peril; duly...

Closer to this: http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.496418175695055&lng=-74.82359904449464&z=16&type=nj1930&gpx=

OK, let's see if you can find these quirky Pine Barrens places: 1) Gigantic City, by Blue Bent Pond, northeast of Ruskville, northwest of Edwina. 2) Buckhorn (where I grew up), up the road from Punch Bowl and the Cannon Range 3) Jewtown, next to Lebanon 4) Rattletrap, near Negro Hill, north...

TITTEL: Christie pushing changes to further develop Pinelands http://www.app.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/05/14/tittel-christie-pushing-changes-develop-pinelands/27313193/?fb_ref=Default The Christie DEP Is Trying To Force Sewers and Dense Development Into Pinelands Hamlets and Villages...

Ditto, and they load so much better than the older version. Many thanks! S-M

S-J, I too learned it to be a derogatory term, one never used around Milmay or Richland schoolyards. Despite the distancing, we took great pride in being Pine Barrens natives. My mother would scold, “quit peeking out the window” when an unexpected guest pulled up the farm drive. “Do you want...

Many thanks for the help. This brings me back to my original question, when does the property get the name "Mount Pisgah" Union American Methodist Episcopal Church? When is "Mount Pisgah" first noted? The earliest name I have found in reference to this parcel is in the 1869 deed, where it is...