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I agree Guy, knee-high boots would have helped. My mistake was not expecting them in the type of woods I was in. The mosquito population was literally the worst I have ever seen. That was another anomaly about this place. Very upland and very dry, but with Asian Tigers, that doesn’t seem to matter.

No barriers were added Bob. No one has ever gone over the sides before or after the improvements were made in the 40 year I have lived here. No guard rails makes for better drivers.

Happy Chigger Season. Here I am again to report my first case of chiggers. :( Doing a 48 acre survey update today with one of my guys in Franklin Township, Gloucester County in a hardwood forest with a light understory. Not chigger territory in my mind, but the chiggers thought otherwise. Of...

Anything within 15' of the road would be long gone now. The Pestletown Road stream crossing of Clark's Branch was completely reconstructed about15 years ago. The road was widened and the brush and trees were removed for at least 20 feet from the new edge of the road on the west side and maybe 15...

That's the same thing I was thinking.

I looked at Find A Grave and there appear to be only two Sloans buried in the Atco Cemetery. You would think there would be more given that Sloantown is described as being between Atco and Jackson. Between Atco and Jackson is a very small area that anyone today would just call Atco.

This old post mentions Sloantown. I have never heard that name mentioned before. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/sloantown-jacques-bridge-oak-knoll-jacllin-new-bridge.6992/

I did a lot of work for the Giberson family who started the Berlin Auction in 1940. I also went there nearly every Saturday night as a kid with my parents and bought soft pretzels, drag racing and hunting magazines and Revell model building kits. Me and my Dad always stopped at Charlie's Clam...

Berlin Farmers Market??

Hey Dude shoes? I never thought a Piney would be seen wearing those. :)

I would like to meet the woman who had enough balls to recover her own car in Camden. I'll bet when she jumped out of her ride to get the car she said.. "Here, hold my beer.":)

A good friend of mine from my gun club just spent 12 days in the hospital from a Brown Recluse bite. He was camping in PA and it bit him while he was asleep. He now has a 15" long incision in his arm from where they had to remove necrotic tissue. :eek: I have a photo of his arm but it's too...

I have lived in Pestletown for 40 years now and the street signs at the Chew Road intersection have read both Pestletown and Pestleton Road back and forth over the years. Not surprising since ton replaces town in a lot of place names. Chuton appears on the 1885 map I posted down near the...

Found It !! This article was written in 1888. To me it seemed clear that Shane's Castle would have been on the north side of Clark's Branch because it references the cemetery that was to later become St. Anthony's, now Waterford Memorial Park. I don't if you know this, but the St. Anthony's...

Piney Roots check out this post from 2014 and my responses. I actually attached a mark-up of the 1885 map that I posted this morning. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/shanes-castle-waterford.9921/#post-119722 I will still look for the article that hinted at the location being on...

I have another theory on the location of Shane's Castle taken from articles I have found or that were forwarded to me by Jerseyman. In the meantime, here is a very cool 1885 map that I wish was reproduced more clearly. It should still be on file in Camden County Register of Deeds where I...

Here is the 1942 Waterford tax map showing a separate Lot 12 for the cemetery. It was annotated "Cemetery Exempted". I will let Largo fill in the details about how he came to own it in 1999.

The owner of the land is a friend of mine and he is a member of this site. He uses Largo as a screen name. I will call him this morning and ask him to check out this thread. The cemetery is definitely there and he will be able to fill in all of the details. If I recall correctly, the cemetery...

Thank you for the marvelous post, a full twenty years after my original. The information you have researched and shared here is fascinating and detailed. The only hearsay fragment of information I ever gathered was from from Nelson Phero, born in Dutchtown on 206 in 1926 and a descendant of...

Stumbled over this interesting documentary on YouTube this morning. It is interesting that I have never heard much at all about this industry in our Pine Barrens. It brings back memories of my grandmother's house where she always kept a gallon of turpentine on hand for thinning paint and other...