. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry restored in historic Double Trouble By ELIZABETH G. CARPENTER The preacher spotted the gaping holes in the dam caused by gnaw- ing muskrats. "Here's trouble!," he shouted. Resignedly, the preacher and his neighbors repaired the lake's end dam. A week later, however, the old man's patience became strained. Finding muskrat destruct- ion for the second time in seven days, he hollered: > "Here's double trouble!" With those words, shouted more than 100 years ago, the Pine Barrens hamlet—Double Trouble—wa
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry restored in historic Double Trouble By ELIZABETH G. CARPENTER The preacher spotted the gaping holes in the dam caused by gnaw- ing muskrats. "Here's trouble!," he shouted. Resignedly, the preacher and his neighbors repaired the lake's end dam. A week later, however, the old man's patience became strained. Finding muskrat destruct- ion for the second time in seven days, he hollered: > "Here's double trouble!" With those words, shouted more than 100 years ago, the Pine Barrens hamlet—Double Trouble—was christened. HENRY CHARLTON BECK, once state editor of the Courier- Post (Camden, ), recounts this story in his book, "Forgotten Towns of Southern, While the tale may not be historically impeccable, it is genuine folklore, a colorful thread in the fabric of Pine Barrens experience. Legend says Indians, members of the Lenni Lenape tribe, favored this site surrounding the pristine waters of Cedar Creek. Local historians have traced the hamlet's ownership from the early 18th century, when the land was deeded to Anthony Sharp, a Quaker and Irish woolen merchant, to the present, with the state of New Jersey owning the property and leasing cranberry bogs to Frederick A. (Fred) Mahn and John (Jack) Traino. A working sawmill at the site "% »• f EIER EARTHMOVING "We're Best on Earth" One yd. CAT backhoe Bog Construction Land Clearing Canal Work Flume Setting Pond Construction Ditching Contact: Peter K Meier 63 South Street Halifax, MA 02338 (617) 293-3218 Grower references available Equipped with swamp mats attests to the fact that lumbering sustained residents of the (continued on page 9). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Portland, CT [etc. ] : Taylor Pub. Co
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