We are still looking for the property corners for the Hampton Park property discussed above, and our first stop was right along Carranza Road at the first bridge past the Wharton border coming from Tabernacle. The Batsto flows under this bridge and If you visit there in the future look over the south side of the railing and you will see the stone located there.
We then were disappointed at three other locations where there still is a possibility that at one or two of them we just did not try hard enough. However, at the next location after circling for a while I used my metal walking stick to find a deeply embedded stone. This one was well covered and is not going anywhere, and it's one that nobody would be searching for in the future since it is not on the Wharton boundary. A lost stone basically.
Four feet away and still hard to find.
Then off to an old well hidden unused bridge and dam right near Hampton Furnace. Al stumbled on this last week. This is the canal that the parents of the man who gave us the above photo's built. I can now see that when they did not want the water to flow into the bogs from the Batsto River, this canal diverted the flow along this route. For this reason the state was not happy, and eventually by Eminent Domain took the property from them to stop this alteration of the flow.
Guy
