All,
Here is an interesting update to this thread concerning the stone hills near Mount that Al, Jessica, and I visited. While looking for property stones Al and I found an area where the removal of sandstone was apparent, and I was wondering if Mancill Gager who had owned the property at one time had removed the stones for construction of the homes in Medford Lakes. Here is one line that I posted which is important.
Someone in the past spent quite a bit of time digging up the stones provided by nature there.
The location.
Now the update.
I spent most of the day today exploring the pines with Ted Gordon, and when he arrived this morning he gave me a copy of a 1942 article written by Henry Beck. The article was about a Miss Mary Wills who at the age of 83 was a Champion Berry-picker. Her father was William Shreve Wills who at one time was the keeper of the hotel at Mount for 8 years. Miss Wills reminises in the article quite a bit about various subjects, but one portion of the article Ted remembered and wanted to bring to my attention. Ted felt that the removal of stone at the location we visited occurred much earlier than I had thought. It appears he was correct.
From the article.
There was a stone quarry near the Mount Tavern. It was from there, Miss Wills revealed, that the stone was hauled to build the glass works at Hermann. "It didn't last very long," she said, but all the stone was "riz" back there. My father had two teams and did the hauling...
I have no proof this was the location, but being so close to Mount it may have been.
Guy
Here is an interesting update to this thread concerning the stone hills near Mount that Al, Jessica, and I visited. While looking for property stones Al and I found an area where the removal of sandstone was apparent, and I was wondering if Mancill Gager who had owned the property at one time had removed the stones for construction of the homes in Medford Lakes. Here is one line that I posted which is important.
Someone in the past spent quite a bit of time digging up the stones provided by nature there.
The location.
Now the update.
I spent most of the day today exploring the pines with Ted Gordon, and when he arrived this morning he gave me a copy of a 1942 article written by Henry Beck. The article was about a Miss Mary Wills who at the age of 83 was a Champion Berry-picker. Her father was William Shreve Wills who at one time was the keeper of the hotel at Mount for 8 years. Miss Wills reminises in the article quite a bit about various subjects, but one portion of the article Ted remembered and wanted to bring to my attention. Ted felt that the removal of stone at the location we visited occurred much earlier than I had thought. It appears he was correct.
From the article.
There was a stone quarry near the Mount Tavern. It was from there, Miss Wills revealed, that the stone was hauled to build the glass works at Hermann. "It didn't last very long," she said, but all the stone was "riz" back there. My father had two teams and did the hauling...
I have no proof this was the location, but being so close to Mount it may have been.
Guy
