New-story research audit — September 7, 2026

Four original entry pages added; no index, search or map files changed by this agent. All sources below were accessed through web search and opened where noted. Narrative is original prose, with paragraph-level links. No clipping reproductions or transcriptions were added.

Double Trouble

File: entry/double-trouble-village.html

  • Sarah Allaback, HABS NJ-1021 (summer 1991), written report, pp. 1–2, opened and read: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/habshaer/nj/nj1300/nj1307/data/nj1307data.pdf
  • NJDEP village interpretive guide, marked CMY 5/24, PDF opened and text inspected: https://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/historic/docs/double%20trouble_web.pdf
  • Historic Trust restoration project record, search result inspected: https://www.nj.gov/dca/njht/funded/sitedetails/doubletrouble.shtml
  • Supported: seasonal workers, box tickets exchanged for wages, foreman Alfio Musumeci and 57 seasons; transition from timber to cranberries; state acquisition 1964 and cultivation ending 2010.
  • Explicitly unresolved: name stories (storms versus muskrats), identity of earliest mill builder, 1903 versus 1904 Crabbe purchase. HABS is a later historic-building survey, not an eighteenth-century eyewitness source. State guide says name appears in deeds by 1790; actual deeds not inspected. Avoided incompatible schoolhouse dates (1890 versus c.1893) and implausible guide statement that an early sawmill employed 2,400 people.

Whitesbog blueberries

File: entry/whitesbog-blueberry-domestication-1916.html

  • J. Kim Kaplan, Agricultural Research, May/June 2011, full page opened: https://agresearchmag.ars.usda.gov/2011/may/nal/
  • USDA, 150 Years of Research, relevant blueberry passage in search extraction: https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/oc/np/150YearsofResearchatUSDA/150YearsofResearchatUSDA.pdf
  • Jonathan Damery, Arnold Arboretum, May 18, 2018, full page opened: https://arboretum.harvard.edu/stories/whitesbog-blues/
  • Supported: White/Coville collaboration, local pickers finding parental stock, 1912 commercial planting versus 1916 harvest versus 1920 Pioneer release, Ezekiel Sooy, distinction between selected wild plants and hybrids, Harvard’s dated accession evidence.
  • Limitations: did not inspect original notebooks or live collections; explicitly date plant-presence claim to 2018. USDA’s broad claim that blueberries are not self-fertile was not reproduced as an unqualified botanical rule. Original notebook references are research leads, not claimed direct readings.

Bass River fatal fire

File: entry/bass-river-fire-1977.html

  • NJ 2011 Hazard Mitigation Plan historical table, extracted search text: https://www.nj.gov/njoem/programs/pdf/mitigation2012/mit2012_section4.pdf
  • Larry Teitelbaum, “Front lines,” Burlington County Times, April 21, 1986, pp. 1 and 8; full state-hosted text opened: https://www.nj.gov/pinelands/infor/educational/curriculum/pinecur/art5.htm
  • Edward A. Brotak, Fire Management Notes 40(1), 10–13 (1979), catalog abstract opened: https://www.frames.gov/catalog/11652
  • Bass River Historical Society archive index, search extraction: https://www.bassriverhistory.org/gazette-back-issues.html
  • Supported: July 22, 1977, four West Creek/Eagleswood fatalities, 2,300 acres, evacuation; Harrison’s later recollection; names as supplied in Society index.
  • Follow-up succeeded: Brotak article read in Forest Service 2003 reprint, Fire Management Today 63(4), pp. 25–28: https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/legacy_files/fire-management-today/63-4.pdf . Entry now includes his attributed response chronology and weather hypotheses.
  • Limitations: Mechanical failure is explicitly an attributed retrospective hypothesis. Original 1977 newspaper images and incident/vehicle records were not inspected. Do not label this an officially unsolved investigation. The Society index is evidence for victim names and availability of transcriptions, not direct inspection of those transcriptions.

Chestnut Neck

File: entry/chestnut-neck-privateering-1778.html

  • NJ Geological Survey Revolutionary engagements inventory p. 20, search extraction: https://www.nj.gov/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/battles.pdf
  • NJ military-history newsletter October 2, 2025, page opened: https://www.nj.gov/military/outreach/newsletters/20251002.html
  • Pinelands Commission historical curriculum, search extraction: https://www.nj.gov/pinelands/infor/educational/curriculum/pinecur/peopres.htm
  • Norman R. Goos interpretive essay, PDF opened: https://www.nj.gov/pinelands/about/events/handouts/handouts/The_Battle_at_Chestnut_Neck.pdf
  • Supported: attack October 6, 1778; privateering commerce; British destruction; district includes wreck remains, at least two located according to historical curriculum; 1911 commemoration.
  • Conflicts retained: ten prize vessels in inventory versus thirty ships in military newsletter. Pulaski arrival October 8 kept separate from October 6 battle. Neither number elevated to settled fact. Goos is a named later interpreter, not an official contemporary report merely because his essay is on a government server. His blanket moral judgments on opposing sides were not adopted.
  • Rejected a Batsto HABS extract that appears to conflate October 6 attack with October 15 fighting. Also avoided Commission timeline’s erroneous “Harvard Graduate” statement about James Still (irrelevant to this story but demonstrates why official pages still require comparison).

Follow-up leads

  • Retrieve original deed recording the Double Trouble purchase, and early deed using the place-name.
  • Inspect the Coville notebooks and White’s original evaluations, documenting the contributors behind named varieties.
  • Retrieve original July 28, 1977 Tuckerton Beacon reporting; compare with Brotak analysis and incident records.
  • Follow NJ Archives Second Series II pp. 472–473 and wartime naval returns to reconcile Chestnut Neck vessel totals and wreck identifications.

Validation

Each new entry uses the existing header, navigation, footer, stylesheet and script. Each includes the standard entry header, topic eyebrow, h1, status, lede, factbox, sources and return navigation. New pages deliberately make no access-hour, trail-opening or visitation promises.