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Oh wow, I am sending a donation too. I volunteered there in the early 1980's to help feed and water the animals each weekend. That came after taking one of Betty Woodford's naturalist classes at Lenape High School. It was something I looked forward to doing with a friend and her children each...

Wow, I forgot about the Breyers sign out from of Rips. Now that I think, you couldn't miss it. Re Rips, I remember the deli counter in the back. We would always stop in Sunday afternoon after church for a half pound of boiled ham for sandwiches. I remember the aisles filled with cereal and...

Sorry, I see it was lake pine. oh, sorry, I see they lived in Lake Pine. There's certainly a number of log cabins in Lake Pine as well.

Yes, Janet would have been older than me and I'm 61. Likely her daughter. I remember hearing Calista went to Shawnee, but I was already out then. Where did their family live? In Medford or Medford Lakes?

Oh, on another note, I'm not sure if you are speaking above of Janet Todd. Not sure if she was the daughter or granddaughter of Leon. She was a registered dietitian and in the mid-1970s was working at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. My father took me to meet her and talk with her when I was in...

I remember the big flood in 2004, not from being there, but because that was the summer we sent our son to Ockanickon and the dams burst. I remember that iconic photo of a canoe wrapped around a tree in Medford Lakes in that link you have above. I don't remember anything about not welcoming...

This is great! It was before my time, but in my time I remember the large log cabin, Settler's Inn. The Medford-Vincentown Rotary Club use to meet downstairs there in the 70s and I remember going to an regular Easter buffet there. When my dad first got into real estate in the early 1960's, he...

Those maps you have are way cool!! I just googled and found this that matches my memory: ...they built a very large and impressive campfire area that tiered down to overlook a lake....https://www.lakesideatmedford.com/history.htm So, I think it might be this...

More on point with the topic of this thread, when I came back after college and was working in Philadelphia from 1983 to 1986, there was nothing I loved more than to take my doxie and hike in the Pine Barrens. We often did Carranza Memorial on 206 to the Apple Pie Hill fire tower. Or, to go over...

No, my fault. I was talking about the ampitheater at Camp Lenape. I can better describe. See where my cursor is in the photo below, that's where it was. There was a trail that left from Scout Drive and followed the southern shoreline of the lake there at Camp Lenape. It went through the woods...

Yes, he loved to get out with that plow. His dog was Mac and he was a mutt/rescue. My mother always joked that she wasn't taught dog walking in secretarial school, as often when Alice, Eph's wife, was out, and Eph's office was his home at 51 Union Street, it was the two secretaries, one being my...

Heavens! There are houses all there now! The theater would have been here: https://online.boydsmaps.com/#16/39.8486/-74.7868/njgin2007

Here are a few photos of Mimosa Lakes from the late 1950's to early 1960's. #1 is my grandmother, aunt, uncle and mother on the beach at 3 Cloverleaf Court. #2 is our dock with father in the rowboat, me, my mother and my grandmother in 1962. My grandfather passed away in 1959, so my dad built an...

Speaking of cost...we actually just bought our first home after years of renting. That ordeal brought the story from my dad of how he and my mother had a budget of $20,000 to build our rancher in Mimosa. The finished price, when they spec'ed out everything they wanted including a full basement...

Most of our family photos are in my dad's house in Leisuretowne with my stepmother. But my cousin recently sent a few that give a peek at the early days of Mimosa Lakes. That's it exactly! I remember Camp Lenape described as 500 acres, so I'd always say I had a 500-acre camp in my backyard to...

Yes, I moved to St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1986. I was working in Philadelphia at the time and thought it would be fun to come down and work here a year or two. I'm a registered dietitian and worked at HUP. I'm still here. It's the endless NJ shore weather and the ability to live...

Thank you! Growing up in Mimosa Lakes and Medford was the best childhood anyone could have had. To this day, I value and have passed on to my kids a love of the outdoors. Speaking of outdoors, I remember the thrill of actually staying upright on my first two wheel bike and continuing to stay...

Tomlinson above is Eph Tomlinson, an attorney who worked for many years in Camden, then moved his practice to him home office at 51 Union Street in Medford in the 1960s. Eph, who served as Medford's mayor for 12 years including in the 1970s, created Medford Development Corporation with my father...