E G Booz returns home after 39 years!!

[bostaurus]

Amazing! Glad that fellow did not keep his opinion to himself.

 

[RED Matthews]

Hi to all of you, I got a big smile when I read your story Steve. Obviously it was meant to be - Congratulations.
RED Matthews

 

[epackage]

I hope to be in your will Steve, hoping you live a very long life though....Jim[]

 

[Steve/sewell]

Thanks everyone it was a neat find for sure.Here is an aerial shot of my Hometown of Mantua New Jersey.Dr Dyott would have traveled by horse and carraige right past my house on the way to Glassboro to the glass factory.The woods between my house and Glassboro 5 miles away is where the famous Gloucester Fox hunting club hunted quite often in the early to late 1700s.Most of their members would become Washingtons personal body gaurds in the years after the winter at Valley Forge when we turned the tide on the British at the battles of Washingtons crossing,Trenton and Princeton.A lot of history rolled right past my house in each direction.Google the Gloucester Fox Hunting club.

 

[JOETHECROW]

Great story Steve....Glad it had a happy ending!

 

[RED Matthews]

Hi Steve, There is a little paragraph to the right of the aerial picture that I couldn't pick up for my file copy. It starts out with "A little history, Thomas Carpenter --- etc. to the bottom of the picture. I tried to cut and paste it but that wouldn't work either. I love your coverage of such interesting history. RED Matthews

 

[Steve/sewell]

Red there is so much glass history, and great US history all within a 40 mile radius of my current house and the one I grew up in.
I am very fortunate to live so close to all of these great places.There are over 40 glass works that operated anywhere from 1739 Wistarburgh in Salem County 16 miles south west of me,The Stangers in Glassboro 1778 just 5 miles from my home,Fislerville 1848(Clayton) home also to the Clevenger Brothers 1928,to Coffin and Hay (1820 to 1840) 20 miles south east to Hammonton,to 40 miles away south east again to Crowleytown and Greenbank 1850s,to 22 miles away in Bridgeton home to 20 different glass works between 1830 and 1900 to 25 miles away to Millville 8 glass works Wheaton village to30 miles south to Port Elizabeth.

 

[Dansalata]

great story...sometimes i think certain things we are destined to have...

 

[justanolddigger]

Awesome story, thanks so much for sharing it, one of the best I have read in a long time.