Mysterious Stockton Ruins

cglock25

cglock25

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Hello all,

So I recently transferred to Stockton College in Pomona, and today I had some free time. I decided to go geocaching, and one cache took me to an area with these odd ruins. It's a concrete pillar with bricks crumbling off the base of it. In front of it there is a pit about 3-5 feet deep. It's located just off the trail that runs along Lake Fred. Anyone have any idea as to what this could be? I tried searching but didn't find anything.
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cglock25

cglock25

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oji said:
If you don't get your answer here (what are the odds) ask Jamie Cromartie at Stockton.
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Awesome, thanks oji! I'll probably have him as a professor eventually; I'm majoring in Environmental Studies. Thanks for the info
 
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JimGib

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If you on the apartments side of Lake Fred, they maybe what is left of the old cabins. The cabins were there in the 70-80's and used by the students and prof. I think the last one was removed in the mid-80's. I was at Stockton from 87-91 and graduated with a BS in Environmental Studies (when it was Stockton State College). Jamie will know for sure.
 
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buckykattnj

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Cglock, I'm impressed that you have managed in a short time to find something interesting that I missed in my years of exploring the woods at Stockton.

What part of the Lake Fred is this path along? JimGib is correct, there were cabins on the courts side of the lake, but I can't imagine them using a large concrete pillar like that. Using HistoricAerials.com and the Atlantic County IMS, it looks like the most of them were gone by '68... maybe two surviving until '77... one in '83. But keep in mind, the aerials are not high resolution, and are subject to interpretation/imagination. If you have the GPS coords of the geocache, it might help. I imagine that students and profs might have used the cabins, but not for living... since I recall that A-court was built and inhabited when the first classes started on the campus. More likely, IMHO, the college used them for maintenance before Lakeside was built.

Looking at the various aerials, its amazing how radically the ground have changed... but the dark path (assuming its still unlit) has been in existence since the '30s... its probably one of the oldest pathways... and now it makes me question the ages of the two concrete bridges... as I see concrete structures there going back to the '40s. Anyway, there where a lot of extra waterways, and I wonder if your concrete is the remains of a floodgate.

JimGib, I was also at Stockton from '89 to '93... and your username is ringing a bell. I think I might know you... but my memory is foggy. I worked heavily in lower D-wing.

BKNJ
 
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