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GW, It's Atlantic County, not Ocean County, but the Lochs-of-the-Swamp is still worth the added effort of any intrepid soul. http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/makepeace-a-pbx-hike.8117/ Let me know if you take up the challenge and I will play suitably somber music until I hear of...

Stories of the Jersey Devil and Beyond http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/stories-of-the-jersey-devil-and-beyond.9548/#post-114596

Reminder about above: http://www.rancocasnaturecenter.org/uploads/3/2/6/0/3260947/rancocasparkdaybrochure2013-1.pdf

Huh, It's funny that Green doesn't seem to cover this story. Very busy, so I only did a quick scam so may have missed it, but suggest this booklet for further Pleasant Mill's context. S-M Great stuff dogg57 & Jerseyman. Green, C.F., ca. 1920s?: A Place of Olden Days, Nescochague...

jejennings, Thanks for the meeting announcement. I thoroughly enjoyed tonight's talk about Penbryn and look forward to learning more about Winslow Township - an underrepresented part of the Pine Barrens. S-M

Small school forged big memories MILMAY — For more than 70 years, the former Milmay School educated scores of students inside its quaint two-room schoolhouse on High Street. Youngsters in grades K-5 were taught to read and write, and learned about the world around them. But more importantly —...

Folks, On October 13, botanist Joe Arsenault, historian Paul Schopp, geographer Mark Demitroff, and archeologists John Lawrence and Jack Cresson will get together to celebrate the cultural and environmental treasures of New Jersey’s Inner Coastal Plain found at the Rancocas Nature Center. We...

Folks, This October I’m giving a talk in Mays Landing for the Atlantic County Park System, with a repeat in Cape May for NJ Audubon. Stories of the Jersey Devil and Beyond Local natural historian Mark Demitroff grew up on a western Atlantic County poultry farm. There he enjoyed hearing...

Just so you know how serious this issue is, check out this law blog comment about Richland Village: AN EMINENT DOMAIN EUPHEMISM: An Area in Need of Redevelopment http://www.njeminentdomain.com/state-of-new-jersey-an-eminent-domain-euphemism-an-area-in-need-of-redevelopment.html Under the new...

During the 2006 Village Redevelopment hearing required cultural surveys were waived, specifically because the staffer in charge of such things "felt Richland contained nothing of historical significance." I wrote back an angry letter in protest. Since then I obtained on my own time a Certificate...

Why not walk one of the Pinelands Villages? Park at one end, and take a look around at the vernacular architecture. Stop into the local deli or post office or church and ask the people behind the counter about their place, their families, their trades. Get a sense of what a small town really is...

Good news, or at least it seems so. For now the Office of Planning Advocacy has removed Pinelands Villages from Priority Growth Investment Areas. They are to become Alternate Growth Investment Areas. An “Alternate Growth Investment Area” means: “an area that has existing or planned...

Cool beans!

Manumuskin, I too traveled those old trails back there as a youth. Peaslee Wildlife Management Area was my stomping grounds as a kid. There's a neat trick a neighbor Glenn Dalponte taught me. The best time to track a trail is during snow-melt. Because of thermal inertia the ruts tend to melt...

Huh, I remember posting on Worrel Cave a while ago, but it doesn't show up in a search. However, here is a link to that post: http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/are-there-any-known-caves-in-the-pines.2075/ Is there a reason that the search option only goes back so far? I tried a...

Here's the location of the location of the original St. Mary's Church in Milmay: http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.44126977590191&lng=-74.85592450790102&z=17&type=nj1930&gpx= Here's a post card view from Jerseyman's collection and a 1931 aerial photomosaic view to orient yourself: A...

Success Lake! I proposed to Patty there. Lord knows I needed all the help I could get. S-M

I was helping a friend delineate reputed old Catholic church in Estell Manor that no one could remember. Jerseyman kindly offered to run with the few clues I had to go on. As usual, he did not disappoint. Here’s three relevant excerpts from Leahy’s (1906) The Catholic Church of the Diocese of...

Jerseyman kindly offered to run with the few clues I had to go on. As usual, he did not disappoint. Here’s three relevant excerpts from Leahy’s (1906) The Catholic Church of the Diocese of Trenton, N.J., which is available online: http://archive.org/details/catholicchurchof00leah Risley...

Yes, full-blown dunes are uncommon in the Pine Barrens. This is a sand-starved system, eolian landforms are subtle. You'll mostly find relict dunes along the eastern and southern banks of rivers. Most of the eolian bed forms are protodunes and thin sand sheets that have been further modified by...