All
This past Thursday at 08:30 A.M. my friend George, my Stepson and i wanted to see different venues in Atlantic County that i have passed by in a car in my way younger years on my way to go fishing in Delaware Bay but have never stopped to see them.
With the shortened daylight our agenda was to view as many places as we could, the intended venues were Head Of The River Church, Etna Furnace, Estellville Glass Works and the Belcoville World War 1 Munitions Site, also if possible Walker's or Monroes Forge and Catawba.
I first wanted to take a photo of the Armageddon Rt.666 sign.
The following pic is of the Head Of The River Methodist Church built in 1792, the society of the Church though was founded in 1780.
Across the road is the Baptist Cemetery established in 1751.
A pic of a Tombstone from the Baptist Cemetery.
We then drove to the entrance to Etna Furnace, the following pic of the Etna sign details the history of the site without going into further detail.
We then when arriving at the site found numerous bricks scattered around the furnace site, we did not find a slag pile or any flux at the site though, the clam and oyster shells were found though a distance away downriver on the Tuckahoe River. A pic of some bricks we saw, no letttering was found on them after viewing quite a few bricks in the area.
Further exploring in the area we came upon two mound areas, this first mound we found the mound was covered with charcoal deposits.
Upon further exploring in the area we came upon this sluiceway going out to the Tuckahoe River.
A view of the Tuckahoe looking downriver.
Upon further exploring the area we found another mound with a small cellar hole depression in it.
After clearing away some debris we then viewed some Slag and Charcoal, notice the blackened soil.
Leaving the area we then followed an old road to another site a distance away coming upon the following, can anyone tell me what that growth is going up the trees ?
We then found a fairly large depression in the ground with scattered bricks, flux, and some whitish stones in it, was this the Sawmill site ?
Here is a pic of the stones,bricks and flux that we found in the depression.
We then left the area taking a different trail out to the Jeep, arriving at Head Of the River Road on the opposite side of a Red House we noticed a small cellar hole right off the road, upon examining it we found nothing in the hole and returned to the Jeep.
It was now time to travel to the Estellville Glass Works on Route 50, but due to the taking of 51 pics on Thursday i will submit that in part two of Thursday's outing "Atlantic County Exploring" at another time, and there is a lot more to tell and explain for our explorations for the day.
Jim
This past Thursday at 08:30 A.M. my friend George, my Stepson and i wanted to see different venues in Atlantic County that i have passed by in a car in my way younger years on my way to go fishing in Delaware Bay but have never stopped to see them.
With the shortened daylight our agenda was to view as many places as we could, the intended venues were Head Of The River Church, Etna Furnace, Estellville Glass Works and the Belcoville World War 1 Munitions Site, also if possible Walker's or Monroes Forge and Catawba.
I first wanted to take a photo of the Armageddon Rt.666 sign.
The following pic is of the Head Of The River Methodist Church built in 1792, the society of the Church though was founded in 1780.
Across the road is the Baptist Cemetery established in 1751.
A pic of a Tombstone from the Baptist Cemetery.
We then drove to the entrance to Etna Furnace, the following pic of the Etna sign details the history of the site without going into further detail.
We then when arriving at the site found numerous bricks scattered around the furnace site, we did not find a slag pile or any flux at the site though, the clam and oyster shells were found though a distance away downriver on the Tuckahoe River. A pic of some bricks we saw, no letttering was found on them after viewing quite a few bricks in the area.
Further exploring in the area we came upon two mound areas, this first mound we found the mound was covered with charcoal deposits.
Upon further exploring in the area we came upon this sluiceway going out to the Tuckahoe River.
A view of the Tuckahoe looking downriver.
Upon further exploring the area we found another mound with a small cellar hole depression in it.
After clearing away some debris we then viewed some Slag and Charcoal, notice the blackened soil.
Leaving the area we then followed an old road to another site a distance away coming upon the following, can anyone tell me what that growth is going up the trees ?
We then found a fairly large depression in the ground with scattered bricks, flux, and some whitish stones in it, was this the Sawmill site ?
Here is a pic of the stones,bricks and flux that we found in the depression.
We then left the area taking a different trail out to the Jeep, arriving at Head Of the River Road on the opposite side of a Red House we noticed a small cellar hole right off the road, upon examining it we found nothing in the hole and returned to the Jeep.
It was now time to travel to the Estellville Glass Works on Route 50, but due to the taking of 51 pics on Thursday i will submit that in part two of Thursday's outing "Atlantic County Exploring" at another time, and there is a lot more to tell and explain for our explorations for the day.
Jim