Five townships marker

[RMICKLE]

Hello All,

I’ve wanted to look for a marker placed at the intersection of five townships and also marks an angle point in the county line between Burlington and Ocean Counties. I had Thanksgiving Day morning free so I decided to go a field.

Getting to the area was easy enough. I turned onto the last road and went a short distance and noticed a concrete post. It turned out to be a witness post with a monument behind it.

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After a short while I could hear the brush scratching both sides of the truck. Oh poo (censored). I continued on hoping to find a pull off so I could park. It took me another quarter mile to find a place to pull off and walk the last halve a mile to look for my Holy Grail. Along the road I found three township other line markers # 61, 59 & 58.

http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=3

I was getting close to the area, my GPS was telling me it was sixty feet back in the woods. I noticed some pink surveyors ribbon in a bush along the road and looked down to see a stone.

http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10427/normal_PB240037%20%28Medium%29.JPG

I wasn’t sure if it was the correct stone so I followed my GPS to the location of my waypoint and I found nothing. I returned to the stone and noticed more pink ribbon back in the woods. It turned out to be a concrete county line monument approximately eight inches square.

Ocean County side.

http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10427/normal_PB240038%20%28Medium%29.JPG

Burlington County side

http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10427/normal_PB240039%20%28Medium%29.JPG

I wanted to explore more but time was running out. I get back to my truck, so now the brush that scraped my truck coming in has a chance to scrape the opposite side going out. Oh poo (censored again).

Here’s an action shot.

http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0

Well at least the motor was running.

The stone I found appears to be the one I was looking for. The county marker is on a 100 foot offset and due south of the stone.

The scratches were pretty bad but I was able to wax them out. You have to look hard to see them.


Roy

 

[Teegate]

Roy,

That stone just sticking out of the ground is the one you were after. That is the one I visited last weekend. And the the cement one 100 feet away is the 1935 Burlington County #30 monument. That stone was used in conjunction with the Commissioner Stones I found recently to accurately monument the 1935 cement monuments.

The cement monuments with the numbers on them are township monuments as they say on them.

http://www.njpinebarrens.com/teegate/main.php/download/1127-1/57.jpg

I am not certain what town they are from. It appears there must be quite a few of them because the one in the above photo is right down the road from the stone in your photo. I have not looked for more because that area is reaching the limits of where I prefer to search, and the cement stones are not quite as interesting to me.

Burlington County Marker #29 should have been 100 feet on the opposite side from the stone on the road, but I was not able to find it. However, the bearing and distance to it from #28 puts it farther down that road. So even the info I have has some discrepancies. I did not have the time last weekend to look for #29.

Here is a tip...using an aerial view just follow the county line north to where the next road crosses, and you will find #28.

BTW, I walked so no scratches on my vehicle It was three miles round trip and Jessica was tired. I have a photo of her laying on the ground next to #30 looking tired!!!

Guy

 

[RMICKLE]

Roy,

Here is a tip...using an aerial view just follow the county line north to where the next road crosses, and you will find #28.

BTW, I walked so no scratches on my vehicle It was three miles round trip and Jessica was tired. I have a photo of her laying on the ground next to #30 looking tired!!!

Guy

Thanks for the information.

I saw some ribbon up the road from the stone but it was time to leave.

That road sucked me in. It looked ok at the beginning. I thought of backing up but backing up a quarter mile or more wasn’t going to be fun or easy.

Roy