Does anyone have this book, WATERWAYS OF CAMDEN COUNTY
A Historical Gazetteer by William R. Farr. Has anyone ever seen it, read it?
Thanks
Chris
A Historical Gazetteer by William R. Farr. Has anyone ever seen it, read it?
Thanks
Chris
Waterways Of Camden County
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Chris:
I have the book in my library. Bill Farr, a lawyer by profession but a historian at heart, worked on Camden County place names for over forty years. He sought to find the earliest usage of a given toponym and provide references to all the material that discussed a particular place name. Waterways was the first of a planned trilogy, the second being water mills and the third being landed place names; watermills is still in editing and I'm not sure landed place names will ever be published except, possibly on a website. Research on the third of the series ended with his death in 2005. While Bill missed one or two waterbodies in his work, nonetheless the book is a well-documented exhaustive study of waterways in Camden County and the origins of their names, as well as historic sites surrounding these waterways. I would recommend anyone on this list who has an interest in waterways purchase this book!
Best regards,
Jerseyman
P.S. For full disclosure, you should know I worked on the book, providing some editorial effort. I also designed, typeset, and arranged for the printing of the volume.
How about pictures, I'm really interested in the names of waterways and the lost waterways, but also historic pictures. Growing up in the haddonfield area I'm really interested in what things use to look like.
Chris:
There are some illustrations in the book, all from my collection. If you are interested in other historic images not featured in the book, perhaps we can make some arrangement for you to view them. Please PM me about those arrangements. If you choose to order it from Amazon, as Ben has provided a link, great. If not, I have a case of the books here at my place.
Best regards,
Jerseyman