I'll be darned. Lived in Bloomsbury area all my life and never knew this!!! Thanks for the info!! Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Hartman" <[email protected]> To: "NJHUNTER" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:28 AM Subject: [NJHUNTER] Blue Mountains found in New Jersey! > To everyone who responded, thank you very much. > > Yes there are Blue Mountains in New Jersey as well as in Pennsylvania! > > Wikepedia has a nice article on the Pennsylvania ridge and notes that it > runs into New Jersey. It is part of the Kittatinny mountain range. > By coincidence, I found an article written in 1885 which notes the Blue > Mountains in New Jersey as running from the Delaware Water Gap over to the > falls on the Passaic River. See: > http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/usa-newjersey.htm > These mountains would be close enough for the 2 hunters from Bloomsbury, > noted in the Hunterdon Republican article, to travel to. These 2 men had > also taken fishing trips together to Pennsylvania in past newspaper items. > > This still leaves the Ringoes group's excursion by wagon to the Blue > Mountains in doubt. Since the time frame was not given in the item, it > would be difficult to assume that they travelled some 40 or 50 miles up to > Northern New Jersey for their outing. We will probably never know. > However, I have sent an email to the Park Ranger for the Sourland Mountain > Preserve and perhaps an answer is forthcoming!? > > I Googled ["Blue Mountains" "Sourland Mountains"] and got 2 hits. Both of > them where in Australia or New Zealand! > > Again, thanks for all who responded, if I get anything further, I'll post > it! > > MrBill > Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
OK, Linda, thanks for the reply and I've got one for you. There is a Mt. Airy located between Ringoes and Lambertville with which I am familiar since I lived a couple of miles away when I lived in New Jersey before coming down here to Florida. Since you live up around Bloomsbury, have you ever heard of a "Mount Airy" that is located somewhere in northern Hunterdon County. The Bloomsbury and sometimes the Glen Gardner correspondents in the old Hunterdon Republican newspaper frequently mention people who live in this location. The book "Hunterdon Place Names" by Phyllis B. D'Autrechy only references the southern location. Thanks for any help, MrBill ----- Original Message ----- From: lmuessig To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Blue Mountains found in New Jersey! I'll be darned. Lived in Bloomsbury area all my life and never knew this!!! Thanks for the info!! Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Hartman" <[email protected]> To: "NJHUNTER" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:28 AM Subject: [NJHUNTER] Blue Mountains found in New Jersey! > To everyone who responded, thank you very much. > > Yes there are Blue Mountains in New Jersey as well as in Pennsylvania! > > Wikepedia has a nice article on the Pennsylvania ridge and notes that it > runs into New Jersey. It is part of the Kittatinny mountain range. > By coincidence, I found an article written in 1885 which notes the Blue > Mountains in New Jersey as running from the Delaware Water Gap over to the > falls on the Passaic River. See: > http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/usa-newjersey.htm > These mountains would be close enough for the 2 hunters from Bloomsbury, > noted in the Hunterdon Republican article, to travel to. These 2 men had > also taken fishing trips together to Pennsylvania in past newspaper items. > > This still leaves the Ringoes group's excursion by wagon to the Blue > Mountains in doubt. Since the time frame was not given in the item, it > would be difficult to assume that they travelled some 40 or 50 miles up to > Northern New Jersey for their outing. We will probably never know. > However, I have sent an email to the Park Ranger for the Sourland Mountain > Preserve and perhaps an answer is forthcoming!? > > I Googled ["Blue Mountains" "Sourland Mountains"] and got 2 hits. Both of > them where in Australia or New Zealand! > > Again, thanks for all who responded, if I get anything further, I'll post > it! > > MrBill > Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message