Today I put the finishing touches on NJPB Live Maps version 2. What started as a Topozone.com replacement for my users has mushroomed into a pretty neat app that will let you view some historic aerial photography, topos, and upload GPX files that will display in the map.
Big thanks to Devin Heitmueller for giving me [...]
I went out today in search of Van Note Camp, a sawmill near Whiting that my distant family operated back in the early part of the 20th Century. While I was out there I also tried to find the ruins of the packing house of a pretty large cranberry bog near Mount Misery.
According to the [...]
This Saturday I hiked the bottom portion of the canal from Mount Misery Brook to Bisphams Mill Creek.
On the George Cook Topo Map of 1887 you can plainly see the canal, and the darkened area where it crossed Mount Misery Brook.
The lake down by Lower Mill does not exist anymore. When Henry Beck visited in [...]
The other day I wrote up a piece for NJPB about my first trip through the Pine Barrens.
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