All,
Today, Jessica and I checked out the cement monument that Sue Gremlin found last weekend on her travels in the burned area. On two of the sides are letters, one side inscribed LEH, and on the opposite side are the letters EW. So what do they mean? Well, at one time Burlington County had a straight border from the Trenton area that extended all the way down to West Creek, but at some time in the past the border turned more southerly in the Warren Grove area, and now extends towards the New Gretna area.
The portion of land that is no longer Burlington County is now Ocean County, and the original Burlington County line eventually separated the townships of Little Egg Harbor, Eagleswood, and Stafford township. So it is easy to figure out that the LEH stands for Little Egg Harbor, and the EW stands for Eagleswood.
So with this in mind I felt there had to be some more of these, and using an educated guess we set out to look for it. This involved a mile walk each way through the burnt woods of the pine plains about 4 miles away. The weather was hot with no shade obviously, and it was slightly uncomfortable but invigorating by the end.
Jessica taking a drink.
Along the way we found these.
Finally we arrived, and sure enough we had made a good guess. I had to manually adjust some of these to get a bright photo because of the angle of the light. Sorry for the flush look.
This particular one also had a crude S inscribed into it for Stafford Township.
And this was 15 feet away.
It is very encouraging to see that even after a fire as hot as this one, the ferns in low area’s where the fire was intense, have already grown 1 foot tall in just over a week. Amazing!
On our ride home we came across a red-bellied turtle.
As Jessica picked it up she scared the piss out of it...literally. Look closely.
Guy
Today, Jessica and I checked out the cement monument that Sue Gremlin found last weekend on her travels in the burned area. On two of the sides are letters, one side inscribed LEH, and on the opposite side are the letters EW. So what do they mean? Well, at one time Burlington County had a straight border from the Trenton area that extended all the way down to West Creek, but at some time in the past the border turned more southerly in the Warren Grove area, and now extends towards the New Gretna area.
The portion of land that is no longer Burlington County is now Ocean County, and the original Burlington County line eventually separated the townships of Little Egg Harbor, Eagleswood, and Stafford township. So it is easy to figure out that the LEH stands for Little Egg Harbor, and the EW stands for Eagleswood.
So with this in mind I felt there had to be some more of these, and using an educated guess we set out to look for it. This involved a mile walk each way through the burnt woods of the pine plains about 4 miles away. The weather was hot with no shade obviously, and it was slightly uncomfortable but invigorating by the end.
Jessica taking a drink.
Along the way we found these.
Finally we arrived, and sure enough we had made a good guess. I had to manually adjust some of these to get a bright photo because of the angle of the light. Sorry for the flush look.
This particular one also had a crude S inscribed into it for Stafford Township.
And this was 15 feet away.
It is very encouraging to see that even after a fire as hot as this one, the ferns in low area’s where the fire was intense, have already grown 1 foot tall in just over a week. Amazing!
On our ride home we came across a red-bellied turtle.
As Jessica picked it up she scared the piss out of it...literally. Look closely.
Guy
As Sherlock Holmes used to say,it's elementary my dear Watson.
