numerous foundations and basements???
- Thread starter mudboy dave
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Mudboy, If I'm not mistaken (which, I very well may be) I think thats the original town of Atsion.
Anyone feel free to jump on in and correct me if I'm wrong.
Anyone feel free to jump on in and correct me if I'm wrong.
Parkdale
This is real close to where i was asking about last night. i was told it was parkdale. i want to get out this weekend and check the area out.
http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/showthread.php?p=63539#poststop
This is real close to where i was asking about last night. i was told it was parkdale. i want to get out this weekend and check the area out.
http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/showthread.php?p=63539#poststop
I was wondering that myself, however.......its still a little over a mile southeast from your blue marker.
Mudboy,
What you are seeing are the remains of a small farm that was still functional into the 1950's. They sold to the State and it was absorbed into Wharton. The name was Kosowski os something close to that. Guy should have the actual name.
The general area is known as Chewtown, a.k.a. Chuton, which is centered at the intersection of Chew Road and Sandy Causeway. There are plowed in remanants of another foundation on the NW corner of the intersecction. Yucca plants give the location away. The foundations you are referring to are further north into the woods where Fleming intersects.
The cemetery in the woodcutter's property on Chew Road is a Chew family cemetery.
A very old friend of mine from church who maintains the cemetery, told me that his mother was from Chewtown and his father was from Dutchtown, around the corner on 206. He always asks me how things are going back in Chewtown whenever I see him.
If you look at the 1930 aerials on this site in the area of your foundations, you can clearly see the farm. I like that area and have killed some nice deer in there over the years.
I like the foundsation with the supports in the floor. I was told by some local oldsters that they were for whiskey barrels.
Another local legend is that the family that lived on the farm that you are asking about had a daughter that they treated like a rented mule.
One night she had had enough and laid down on the JCRR tracks right there and was killed.
I have never sought any corroboration on that tale.
Scott
What you are seeing are the remains of a small farm that was still functional into the 1950's. They sold to the State and it was absorbed into Wharton. The name was Kosowski os something close to that. Guy should have the actual name.
The general area is known as Chewtown, a.k.a. Chuton, which is centered at the intersection of Chew Road and Sandy Causeway. There are plowed in remanants of another foundation on the NW corner of the intersecction. Yucca plants give the location away. The foundations you are referring to are further north into the woods where Fleming intersects.
The cemetery in the woodcutter's property on Chew Road is a Chew family cemetery.
A very old friend of mine from church who maintains the cemetery, told me that his mother was from Chewtown and his father was from Dutchtown, around the corner on 206. He always asks me how things are going back in Chewtown whenever I see him.
If you look at the 1930 aerials on this site in the area of your foundations, you can clearly see the farm. I like that area and have killed some nice deer in there over the years.
I like the foundsation with the supports in the floor. I was told by some local oldsters that they were for whiskey barrels.
Another local legend is that the family that lived on the farm that you are asking about had a daughter that they treated like a rented mule.
One night she had had enough and laid down on the JCRR tracks right there and was killed.
I have never sought any corroboration on that tale.
Scott
wow!!!!!!! unreal. thanks very much for that tid bit of history, any clue when the farm dates back to?
great thread mudboy!
wow is right. my dad took me to these foundation when i was 10 and i fished those waters in the 70's. are there any old pictures of what these buildings looked like.
I think you am mistaken.
Ain't no fishable water near the foundations that we are discussing in Chewtown.
Budd & Gloria Myers have a fairly good recollection of her and the tale believe or not. Given their ages, they were pretty young at the time.
She came up in a conversation we had once and Gloria recalled her with pretty good clarity.
g.
It was the home of Michael J. Miloshevsky.
http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.711409&lng=-74.775232&z=16&type=m&gpx=
Guy
Thanks Guy.
Didn't you and I look for the grid monuments there in the middle of the road?
I know I looked for them at least once without success and I thought you were there.
Kayak Karl, I think you are recollecting visits to Parkdale nearby. There are fishable ponds on Clark's Branch and Sleeper.
Didn't you and I look for the grid monuments there in the middle of the road?
I know I looked for them at least once without success and I thought you were there.
Kayak Karl, I think you are recollecting visits to Parkdale nearby. There are fishable ponds on Clark's Branch and Sleeper.
Frank Rusnak and his late father George relayed the account to me a few years back.
Maybe Jerseyman could jump in the mix and add any accounts of train vs people accidents in that area in the 50's.
Yes I was. I looked one other time and could not find it. They always seem to put them in terrible places.
Guy