I just drove through Mays Landing a couple hours ago. The Great Egg Harbor River had no water in it! I thought I was seeing things. But in other places I saw...
This time they were in someone's driveway along a back road (in the woods) in South Egg Harbor. There were easily 25 of them. By the way, elsewhere in South...
Hi Barry, as always I read the ghosttowns digest with great interest. I was thinking, when I read about you photographing the pic at the barber shop how...
JoAnn, There was also a CCC camp back of, and behind Egg Harbor Lake, the eastern lake. The site is all woods now, but one can find ruins and cellar holes...
Barry, I'll check in the Galloway Historical Room at the Municipal Complex and see if I can find anything on South Egg Harbor for you. Ken Sooy Sr. Barry...
Do any of you know the name of the man in Tuckerton who rehabs old WW1 helmets? I know his last name is Sooy, which is why I'm replying on Ken Sooy, Sr.'s...
Hi John, To be honest this is the first that I've heard of it. Bob Birdsall may be able to help you. I'll forwatd this to him. Ken Sooy Sr. John Pearce...
Barry, I checked some od the data in the Galloway Twp. Historical Room, but because of the weather I had to leave earlier than I wanted to and I didsn't have...
Ken, I read your letter with interest as it brings up a good point; what makes a town? Is it a post office, a school, a church? Places do get an identity. I...
Thanks Ken, I will transcribe part of the big paper item from the Barbershop later tonight, under a new post called Egg Harbor City Manor. This paper item...
Here is some of the text and some description of the paper item from Lou's Barber Shop. I had some copies and made and I returned the "original" to him. First,...
Barry, This is good information. This type of Development was quite common In Galloway Twp, and I suspect in other Townships as well. sit on the Galloway Twp....
JoAnn, To me, what makes a town is having at least a few buildings clustered together, such as any combination of a church, store, school, firehouse, etc.,...
In the town where I grew up, just across the street from us, in the woods behind the houses there used to be a sand pit. How there came to be sand in the midst...
It's more than a little sad when you "go home" only to find it gone or big changes. It's like that for me everytime I go to my Mom's (and that's just the...
Hi, Kewl Barry. Ah, a northerner, Wonder if that was limestone up there. Maybe a small cave or water outlet. humm. 85'ish. Maybe I bumped into you at the...
What has become of Walpack now? ... outlet. ... up that way. Used to go to the ... the time it stopped being Ideal farms. ... North Jersey lost forever ... ...
Sad? It is down right heart breaking! Just think how I feel when I visit Friendship.Sometimes I feel like moving far away from this state before I have to...
Snapdragon, it is sad when things are gone, especially when they were good things. This year the old Harwan Theater on the Black Horse Pike in my town fell to...
Walpack Center consists of a store/post office, a Methodist church, a one-room school, a fire house, and several houses. I think it's been this way since at...
Walpack (Walpack Center) was one of those small communties taken over by the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, and the people evicted, as the story...
Funny you should say that Barry because tonight I was at Paulsdale, the homestead of the family of Alice Paul, who wrote the Equal Rights Amendment and fought...
Buttermilk Falls is not that far away too. Its the tallest in New Jersey. Its nice now that they have a wooden walkway of stairs going up along the waterfall...
As it relates to the topics covered by this group, what are your interests? (mentioned in the text on the group homepage) Mine are many. They include the...
Well, Barry, you just about covered my main interests in this particular area and the main reason your site is so popular! I, too, like historic buildings,...
In no particular order, birdwatching (I count for Project FeederWatch), history, sports, geography, current events, politics, gardening, biking (though I don't...
Here are the oldest churches (by date of founding of the congregation) that I know about in South Jersey. I recently posted this to another group. I find it...
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