Stone Searching Fall & Winter 2024/2025

[Teegate]

I was on my own today, and sometimes there are places Jessica would prefer me to do alone. As I have mentioned before she prefers deep woods and sometimes the stones and monuments are on property corners close to homes or businesses. That is just how it is. As long as I stay on state property I am good to go so I headed today to make the long one mile walk to the back of the junkyard on Chew road. There is an easier way but I wanted to check out the road and anything along it that may interest me.

After walking 2.5 miles this morning with my wife, I headed to my stating point and started hoofing it. A mile later I was where I wanted to be. Just for the record, this shows that I never left state property even though the far right corner looks like I did, I didn't. BTW, I was not able to find the corners and the blue line is the exact line of the property.

Some if not many of the vehicles are actually on state land but I stayed away just to be certain.

There is a human made pond behind and on the edge of the property that is fully on state land.

There is a long canal that starts at the Price Branch and extends to the Clark Branch. On the walk in down the road I took this photo of the canal. It is very old and had filled in somewhat but at one time it much have been substantial.

This shows the canal. The red rectangle just above the blue line is where the dirt was dumped after digging the pond. It is pretty high. Just to the right of the red rectangle and along the blue line the canal has been filled in. But it resumes right at the NJ341WA and heads south.

I was getting tired at one point behind the junk yard and found a seat to rest a little.

And in the end I walked quite a bit. I should sleep well tonight.

 

[manumuskin]

I woulda used the seat as well.I don't mind sitting on the ground but before I do I need to eyeball it to see if there is a sapling or something to help me get up again.The joys of old age:-(

 

[RednekF350]

The family got jammed up a few times for encroachments. When the father was alive, they slowly started storing all types of vehicles just west of their home. It was State property but was always quietly maintained as a side yard area to the home. The storage of junk finally caught the eye of the State.

To the east, on what was formerly a farmed area behind and to the east of the old homestead house, which is now gone, they started storing vehicles in the late 90's. The farmed field was almost completely covered in cars until they got reeled in and had to pull the vehicles out of there. The cleanup of both areas took place around 2017.

The family is very nice. My sons went to school with the youngest Myers who was the grandson of the original owner. I met the original owner by chance back in the early 90's when I shot a deer from my climber with a muzzleloader a few yards behind the rear property line. He came driving out across the field in an old car after he heard the boom and started walking the rear line until he spotted me in a tree. At first he seemed mad and said I was trespassing but I told him nicely that I was a surveyor and I knew the boundaries and that I came up from Chew through the woods along the easterly line and cut across the back. I made sure I shot the deer before he made it into the field too. He asked where I was from and I said right around the corner! His face lit right up and he smiled and said, you're welcome anytime. He said he just didn't like the out-of-towners hunting around his property and shooting "his deer". We had lot of mutual friends and everything ended well. He told me to drag my deer across the field and not to bother going back through the woods again.

The photos below show the progression and regression of the vehicle storage.

 

[Teegate]

There are a few old stands out there right now. However, they are not in use.