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    Bushes Bushes Everywhere....Cumberland Furnace

    I had this old article sent to me by a friend.I seriously doubt there should be any copyright issues.It describes an old trip from Millville to Cumberland Furnace.I would say there were bushes but no trees mentioned because they were all fed to the furnace as charcoal.I ride this strip regularly...
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    Nationwide Public Lands Interactive Map

    https://maps.usgs.gov/padusdataexplorer/ Didn't know if this site had ever been posted.I just found it.Shows Public Land for the whole country.Would be nice if the overlay was see through.Maybe it is and I just haven't found it yet.
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    Colonial Revolutionary History and Post Revolutionary History Volumes

    https://archive.org/search?query=colonial+revolutionary+history+new+jersey I just found these books on Archive.org. I never knew they existed but was doing genealogy on Ancestry and there was a Pic of the fron page of one of these volumes.Don't know how many volumes there are yet but they are...
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    Bathymetric Data Site

    https://www.gebco.net/ a site dedicated to mapping the ocean floor and making it available to us
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    Sympathy For The Devil

    You know I have always been a big skeptic of the Jersey Devil,classing him with Sasquatch the Mothman and a host of other non existent entities that people imagine to go bump in the night but I may have to change my tune.Many times people who know i frequent the woods in all seasons and at all...
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    Rowan NJMap

    https://www.njmap2.com/ A mapping site I was given by a friend.If it's already been posted let me know and I"ll delete.
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    Richland Ruins

    Took a bushwack with a friend yesterday and came upon some unexpected ruins , well two out of three ruins were unexpected,one showed on the topo.I believe they may all be hunting clubs.Am inquiring if anyone knows anything about them.I know this is Spungs turf so he might want to chime in.Here...
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    Tory Pine Tree Robbers

    Has anyone ever heard of the Pine Tree Robbers? While doing my wifes geneaology I came across a story about some Pine barrens bandits fighting for the crown.here is an excer[pt from a much larger story "This [Monmouth] County was more afflicted by these parties than all the rest of the state...
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    Hawkin Lowland

    Whipoorbill and I hit the Barrens.It didn't take much prodding at all.He said Ummm?let me think about it. Ten seconds later He said yes! So there we were two old men out in the woods playing young men games.He has Parkinsons and I"m blind in one eye so this should be good. We made it to most of...
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    Parcel data still exists.

    https://app.regrid.com/us/nj/cumberland/millville#b=none nationwide map here
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    Pine Barren History Video

    If this has been posted before I apologize. Haven';t watched it yet biut put it on Kindle.It looks good.
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    Tulpehocken Trail

    Has anyone heard of a Tulpehocken Trail? Its supposed to start at Apple Pie Hill and I know not where ot ends. A friend of mine sent me a post someone had put up about it on Facebook
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    Brood X Right Around the Corner

    https://cicadas.uconn.edu/brood_10/ This brood only surfaces in Salem and Gloucester counties and at one location on Salem Cumberland line. I"ll be out next month and May listening for them.
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    Tar Kiln Locations?

    Would anyone have any idea what these button shaped formations are? They are all over the Cumberland Pond area and I suspect they map be Collier charcoal sites.I have checked the other furnace area and have found none or only a single on here and there but there are literally clusters in the...
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    N.J. Natives new Book

    https://www.jerseysbest.com/n-j-natives-new-book-uncovers-the-states-hidden-history-one-ruin-at-a-time/ The Millville bunkers are 2 and four miles from my house.Two sets of em.Every time I"ve been there I"ve never seen a soul.Looks like it';s about to end
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    Nj Covered Bridges

    Here is the link to NJ Covered bridges,only one is really legitimate....Green Seargent http://www.dalejtravis.com/cblist/cbnj.htm and heres the link to lost bridges with some interesting potos of some.There were two here in Cumberland County of which I knew the locations but had never seen...
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    Shipwreck

    https://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.38572402805609&lng=-75.42616534631728&z=18&type=nj2015&gpx= I was planning a kayak trip out to some isolated Delaware Bay beaches to do some arrowhead hunting.I was looking on Google Earth and measuring my route when I noticed this shipwreck.It measures...
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    Where can I find out about burn schedules?

    I just too my wife and the dogs up to Howardsville today to let the dogs run in the field.I hadn't been there in probably ten years.We pull up to the road in which is usually gated and it was hanging open with fresh truck tracks.Thats when we looked ahead and noticed smoke.They were in the...
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    Pink Clay

    A friend and I were out exploring the new property bought by the state surrounding the Holly farm and I found very recent evidence of surveying along some corner monuments. Aslo while walking through a gravel pit we found some patches of a very odd purplish pink clay. It appeared flaky and at...
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    Millville the Cold Hole

    https://www.inquirer.com/weather/philadelphia-millville-temperature-freezing-airport-thermometer-20191207.html I have often wondered about this since My first vehicle with a temp reading was bought.I have been living in Laurel lake since then,actaually constantly since 93. I have noticed...
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