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  1. Spung-Man

    Richland Village

    Mr. Riggin, NJ Certified Tree Expert #366, estimated the tree's age to be 135-year old in his report to the municipality. Mr. Demitroff, NJ Certified Tree Expert #285 estimated the tree's age to be 175-year old in his communications to the municipality. I suspect the true age to be somewhere...
  2. Spung-Man

    Middle Road Bridge

    Middle Road, in Hammonton Tract's “middle” ground, holds a mystery. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/atsion-old-and-renewed.4376/page-12#post-131147 On the 1860: Griffith Morgan Hopkins, Jr. "Topographical Map of the State of New Jersey: Together with the Vicinities of New York and...
  3. Spung-Man

    Chairville

    Jerseyman, MikeBickerson, great stuff. Is there any record of a “little mill” on Little Creek? This creek’s length really isn’t that short. Uncle Budd suggested that the old meaning of the term “little” had more to do with water-storage duration than mill size. The concept was that a little mill...
  4. Spung-Man

    Garden 2016 Underway

    Just checking in to report that the garden is still producing. We are picking four varieties of lettuce, parsley, cilantro, scallions, kale, mustard, collards, and other greens, parsnips, daikon, a bit of chard, a couple peas, and Jerusalem artichoke. The Apollo Hybrid “Brokali” side sprouts...
  5. Spung-Man

    Southampton Historical Society Meeting

    What do 65-million-year-old fossils in Vincentown have to do with ice-coring in Greenland and Antarctica? Monday, September 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM – Soggy Ground: Valuing Pine Barrens Wetlands. Southampton Historical Society, Vincentown, NJ. I'll also talk about the origins and use of ancient...
  6. Spung-Man

    RAIN?

    Boyd, Judging by the amount of leaves drying up on understory shrubs, especially the non-natives, I think the Richland area ground has reached its wilting point despite a couple of gully-washers during the last couple of months. Spring growth was lush (too lush) due to abundant rain and cool...
  7. Spung-Man

    A couple Forgotten Mills in Cumberland County

    Manumuskin, Which Hartman map marks a grist mill in on Lawrens Branch in Hesstown? All I remember are beaver ponds marked there, but it makes sense to use every bit of water power to make life easier. That is a serviceable place to put a mill. Like old taverns, little mills pop up in unexpected...
  8. Spung-Man

    Pine Barren Flora

    Thanks Bob, Like Manumuskin I too would have casually dismissed the plant as wild lettuce, a local bias. The difference would have been obvious in the field as the id would have been done by leaf smell and whether or not latex was present when the leaf was broken, not through botanical taxonomy...