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Message:: [QUOTE="BRandM, post: 1946500, member: 22729"][ATTACH=full]338977[/ATTACH]Here's the second pick up from Tom Denly at the Baltimore show last Thursday. Monroe Forge was an iron smelting operation run by Lewis M. Walker. It was established in 1820 or 1821 on the South River three miles southwest of May's Landing, NJ. Another operation called Weymouth Furnace was in the same general vicinity. Monroe Forge was also known as Walker's Forge for obvious reasons. It was located on 9,800 acres of land on part of what is known today as the Pine Barrens National Preserve. Little is known about Walker's life. He was born in Oley Township, Berks Co., PA in August, 1791 and came to NJ in 1811. He married Charlotte W. Pennington, the niece of the Governor of New Jersey (1813-1815). He both served as a County Freeholder and coroner of Atlantic County, and later was a representative in the State Legislature and the State Senate. The forge was abandoned in 1835. Walker died in 1853. The "J.P.Walker" listed on the note was his grandson who inherited and later sold the property to a hunting club. This note is in really nice condition. Tom Denly told me that he's never seen one this nice. It's listed in Wait as W-1198 and is an R-4. Bruce[/QUOTE]