? About Difference in NJ Stones
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The Barn so far as I can tell is pretty close to late 1880's.
Say 1888 for guv'mnt work.
The Fireplace of the R/I in Nesco, about 1934 or so.
On question #2 it is more likely with the fireplace than the barn.
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Without making some phone calls, are there places you can purchase iron stone of the size and color in Largos photos? Google really fails on searching for it.
I'll ask my FIL and see if he still remembers. They did this nearly 80 years ago, and at 91 his memory may not be perfect. I'll post when I find out.
I just spoke with my FIL and it sounds like the stone came from the field (which is now numerous ball fields) across the street from what is now Lenape High School , which I guess is actually in Medford Twp. They came across the stone by accident when they noticed that the field was full of corn except for this one large area. When they asked the farmer why he never planted there, he showed them the stone. He remembers it being well over 100' in diameter and they chipped away for three weeks with hammer and chisel to get enough stones. He thinks this was sometime between 1930 to 1932. They also used smaller pieces of the stones as chinks (instead of nails) for the Settlers Inns log walls. Before they razed the building these stones were offered at $5.00 a piece as memorabilia.
more time than money
Imkms,
Thanks for the post! I guess people had more time than money during the Great Depression. That's a lot of work. Do you happen to know if the collected stones were reddish ironstone or whitish silcrete?
Spung-Man
Imkms,
Thanks for the post! I guess people had more time than money during the Great Depression. That's a lot of work. Do you happen to know if the collected stones were reddish ironstone or whitish silcrete?
Spung-Man
No, I don't know the answer to that question, they simply referred to it as jersey stone or sandstone. Your right, that was a lot of work, but it was good work during the Depression. I wonder how the Great Depression affected the Pine Barrens communities? I imagine the pinelands population had to decrease then.
Harrisville has some pretty sizable sandstone walls. The chimney at Atsion, and the second paper mill at Weymouth are also of brick and sandstone. A lot of the mill buildings at Batsto are stucco coated Sandstone and I'm sure there are many, many others. The old stone village house on Old Egg Harbor Rd. (near Depford) has some nice square-cut sandstone in it as well as a really old church in Fairton. It is a shame I don't live at that house anymore too. I would have loved to quarry some of it and building something out of it one day. We had the really hard almost purplish stone all the way to the softer deep red. Actually when we made the driveway to the house we flattened and graded it through the woods so the building supply trucks could get in and dug up a lot that was on the surface. We piled it to the sides to collect later on and a couple of weeks later, someone came with a truck and stole it. So to some, it seems to be quite a valuable resource.
Kevin
Kevin