So, whatcha want?

Ben Ruset

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I asked this on the NJPineBarrens.com Facebook Page and didn't get much of an answer, so I'll pose the question here on the site.

After the current series of articles on Charles Read is done, what are folks interested in reading about? I have a few ideas for things that I'm going to be researching, but what interests you? I want to know.
 
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Anything Colonial and Pine Barrens/South Jersey, especially if there's a focus on medical/herbal/local lore (Lenape?) remedies for the many ills they suffered. Might not be doable, might not be of general interest, but that's what I'm curious about these days. :)

Thanks much Ben, for even asking! Really liking the Charles Read trip.

Glo
 
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Well, I probably wouldn't be the best qualified to write about the Lenape, much less their herbal remedies, but I was thinking about taking a closer look at Brotherton.

And the Tuckerton RR sounds like that'd be pretty easy to do as well.
 
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Mordecai Swamp Ben! I'd like to know if those trenches that surround the southern sides of the islands along the Batsto Crowleytown road and at least one island south of the road were perhaps fortifications against an impending attack by the british that never came because of Chestnut Neck blowing their surprise attack.I'd swear the square shaped earthworks at the ends of the trenches look like they could have been revetments fo cannon.
Al
 
pinelandpaddler

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manumuskin said:
Mordecai Swamp Ben! I'd like to know if those trenches that surround the southern sides of the islands along the Batsto Crowleytown road and at least one island south of the road were perhaps fortifications against an impending attack by the british that never came because of Chestnut Neck blowing their surprise attack.I'd swear the square shaped earthworks at the ends of the trenches look like they could have been revetments fo cannon.
Al
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That's quite the romantic imagination you have there, Alfie. But those ditches are curious, aren't they? Aside from the barrow pit on either side of the 1808 Road, every ditch in the swamp was most likely excavated for logging, but these ditches along the bottom of the dunes don't quite make sense...
 
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You say I have agood imagination which I guess means you think my theory "debunked" to use your favorite term but yet you admit you have no alternative? come on Gabe...invent something! Charles did it,you can too:)
 
pinelandpaddler

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Al, there is a similar ditch located at "the Horseshoe" near the Forks of the Mullica:

http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.633159014678384&lng=-74.65235710144043&z=17&type=h&gpx=

I've been stumped by this. The ditch runs along the edge of the floodplain along the upland at the interior of the abandoned river meander. I would suggest it was a drainage ditch if it weren't for the fact that the sandy interior is well-drained as it is. Budd Wilson was told by some old timers some time ago that corn was once grown at "the horse shoe", but I don't know what purpose the ditch would serve for growing corn.....

I don't know, good sir......but you're right: I should at least offer an alternative theory. I therefore suggest that the trenches in Mordecai Swamp were dug out in order to to collect run-off when rain fell upon the dunes. But for what purpose?
 
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