Month: April 2019

In the last post, I took a close look at Morrisville Borough in Pennsylvania on one side of the Delaware River, and Trenton, New Jersey, the capital of New Jersey, directly across from Morrisville on the other side of the River.

The starting point on the circle alignment for this post is Sayreville, a borough in New Jersey located in Middlesex County New Jersey…

… near the Raritan Bay…

…at the Raritan River, long a transportation and trade route pre-dating colonial times. This S-shaped river bend at Sayreville…

…compared with the S-shaped river bend shown here in the Ukok National Park in the Altai Mountains of Central Asia…

…the Big Bend of the Rio Grande River in South Texas…

…and the Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River near Page, Arizona.

Charles Morgan III and the Morgan Clan were said to have arrived from New York in the early 1700s to settle the 645-acres granted to them by New Jersey’s first proprietors, John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton and Sir George Carteret. This land became known as the Morgan section of Sayreville.

Members of the Morgan family were the proprietors of the Morgan Inn, which was established sometime around this same time in 1703. The Morgan Inn later became somewhat known infamous as the Old Spye Inn, as this place saw a lot of activity during the Revolutionary War.

It was believed to be haunted, and the Old Spye Inn burned down in 1976.

The Welsh pirate Henry Morgan was mentioned as having a possible connection to these New Jersey Morgans, but the dates didn’t check out when I looked into it. Henry Morgan was said to have died in 1688, so he could never have gone to the Inn as he was purported to have done on occasion.

However, I will take this opportunity to mention that Henry Morgan was given the credit historically for the sacking of star Fort San Lorenzo in Chagres, Panama, near Colon, in 1670…

…and the sacking and destruction of Old Panama City the following year in 1671.

Old Panama City before, with a star fort depicted in this diorama here…

Old Panama City after, without a star fort left standing….

You know, the Captain Morgan’s Rum Captain Morgan. Exactly the same historical character.

Sayreville received its final naming from James Sayre, Jr, of Newark, one of the two co-founders of the Sayre and Fisher Brick Company in 1850.

There are extensive clay deposits in the area, and the Sayre and Fisher Company quickly became one of the largest brick-making companies in the world.

Big companies including, but not limited to, DuPont established plants in Sayreville for gunpowder production initially in 1898, and later for paint and photo products.

The Raritan River Railroad operated freight and passenger service through here between 1888 and 1980, after which time Conrail took over rail operations.

This the logo for the Raritan River Railroad…

…and this is the logo for Rolls Royce.

The similarity between these two logos tells me these two companies were connected in some way. Besides the fact the logos look virtually identical, it brings to mind what I found in Derby, England.

I found Derby near the Algiers’ Circle Alignment as I was tracking it through England in the last series. Derby is the geographic center of England, and the Derwent River Valley in Derbyshire is considered the Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

Rolls-Royce is a global aerospace, defense, energy, and marine company focused on world-class power and propulsion systems, and its civil aerospace and nuclear divisions are in Derby…

…as well as the Railway Technical Center, the technical headquarters of British Rail, and considered the largest railway research complex in the world…

…and Derby is the location of Bombardier Transportation, the rail equipment division of the Canadian company Bombardier, and for many years the United Kingdom’s only train manufacturer.

There are certainly interconnecting pieces of the puzzle to be found lying around these tidbits of otherwise disconnected information.

Back to Sayresville. The extensive clay deposits here include the Crossman Clay pit…

… having gained recognition as a premiere source for amber, as well as pyrite and a diversity of fossils.

The John F. Kennedy Memorial Park is adjacent to the Crossman Clay pit.

Look at all the swans and koi fish here at the park! And pay no attention the man-made water’s edge….

Moving on from Sayreville, the alignment enters the Raritan Bay, which has a number of places at which to look.

I am going to start by looking at the Navesink Twin Lights, next to a long and narrow land feature called Sandy Hook Island. While these two places are a distance east off of this particular alignment, they are both noteworthy.

The Navesink Twin Lights are on the headlands of the Navesink Highlands, overlooking Sandy Hook Bay, the entrance to the New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean.

Navesink was also the name of the Lenni Lenape people who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore near Sandy Hook, and Mount Mitchill in the scenic highlands in eastern New Jersey.

We are told, however, that the Twin LIghts were built in 1862.

The American Civil War is said to have taken place between 1861 to 1865, so we are expected to believe this solid masonry structure was built during war-time, and we will keep seeing similar attributions given to many structures.

Sandy Hook is described as a barrier spit in Middletown Township, which is located in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

It is 6-miles, or 10-kilometers long, and at its widest, 1-mile, or 2-kilometers, across. It encloses the southern entrance of the New York Bay, and provides protection from the open waters of the Atlantic to the East.

Fort Hancock, and the Sandy Hook Lighthouse, is located at the northern end of Sandy Hook.

The lighthouse on Sandy Hook at Fort Hancock is said to be the oldest working lighthouse in the United States, and we are told it was  built in 1764.

The construction of the Fort of Sandy Hook was said to have started in 1857 and ended in 1867, without completing the building of the fort under the supervision of then-Captain Robert E. Lee of the Corps of Engineers, and was designed as a five-bastion irregular pentagon (describing a star fort perhaps?), built primarily of granite (which rates as 7 – 9 on the Mohs scale of relative hardness to other minerals scale).

Not only was the fort said not to have been completed, it was also said to have had most of its surviving parts taken down by the U. S. Army after World War II.

The batteries of the now designated Fort Hancock were said to have been constructed starting in 1890 as part of the Sandy Hook Proving Ground for the testing of coastal defensive weapons, like Battery Potter.

Battery Potter is described as the prototype for a steam-hydraulic, gun-lift carriages, otherwise known as “disappearing guns.”

Fort Hancock is said to have become inactive in 1974, and is now part of the National Parks of New York Harbor, and the Gateway Recreation Area, under the National Park System.

Just north of Sandy Hook is the Ambrose Channel, the main shipping channel in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey.

On the other side of the Ambrose Channel from Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook is Fort Tilden on the Rockaway Peninsula in New York, a now abandoned Army installation that was said to have been built in 1917, and in use until 1995. It is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, and administered by the National Park Service, like Fort Hancock.

Now back to Raritan Bay, where the Great Beds Lighthouse is on the alignment I am tracking, just offshore from the northwestern New Jersey coast, located at the Great Beds Shoal near the mouth of the Raritan River. It was said to have been built in 1880, and manned until 1945.

The Old Orchard Lighthouse is said to have been built in 1883, and is three-miles south of the center of Staten Island.

This is the West Bank Lighthouse, which serves as the front-range light for the Ambrose Channel, which is used in navigation to indicate safe passage, or position fixing. It was said to have been built in 1901.

The Staten Island Lighthouse is on Richmond Hill is the rear-range light for the Ambrose Channel, a 90-ft-high, or 27-meter, tower said to have been built in 1912, and is 141-feet, or 43-meters, above sea-level.

This is the Coney Island Lighthouse on the western end of Coney Island, in Seagate, and situated east of the Ambrose Channel of New York Harbor. It was said to have been built in 1890.

The Romer Shoal Lighthouse is situated between the ship channels of Ambrose, Swash, and Sandy Hook, and is approximately 3-miles, or 5- kilometers, north of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. It was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. It was said to have been built in 1838.

My personal position after 3-years of intensive study of this subject is that the lighthouses around the world were built by the maritime Ancient Advanced Civilization that has been removed from our collective awareness.

This alignment tracks very close to, if not directly over, Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island.

It is described as a former United States Military Installation on Staten Island, situated on The Narrows, which divides New York Bay into upper and lower halves, said to have been established before the War of 1812, as well as between 1845- 1861. I could not find clear reference dates on its construction.

…and a natural defense point for the Upper Bay of Manhattan and beyond.

This sturdy structure was closed in 1994, and is now also administered by the National Park Service’s Gateway National Recreation Area.

On the southern side of the other end of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge from Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island is Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. Fort Hamilton is an active United States Army installation.

This is the Fort Hamilton Community Club…

…the high school for the community of Fort Hamilton…

…the historic Fortway Theater of Fort Hamilton, which was said to have opened in 1927, and closed in 2005, to become a supermarket in 2007…

…and Fort Hamilton community real estate for sale.

John Paul Jones Park, named for the Naval hero of the American Revolution, is on the northern side of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, with its cannon…

…and obelisk.

The rest of the southwest corner of Brooklyn is the neighborhood of Bay Ridge.

This was Bliss Castle on the Bliss Estate, said to have been built by the wealthy manufacturer Eliphalet Bliss…

…and after he died, his will stipulated it could be sold to New York City at less than market prices if it was used as park land.

So his former estate became first Bliss Park, and then later Owl’s Head Park, and all of the original infrastructure on it has long-been removed, having been demolished in 1940.

This is the Union Church of Bay Ridge, with cornerstones said to have been laid in 1896 for two church congregations, one Presbyterian and the other Dutch Reformed, with its beautiful heavy masonry…

…and this was the historic Crescent Athletic Club Boathouse in Bay Ridge. It burned down in 1904.

I will pick up the alignment in Upper New York Bay in the next post.

So far, this circle alignment has been tracked through the metropolitan areas of Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; Wilmington, Delaware; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Next on the alignment, we come to Morrisville, a borough in Bucks County, located just below the Delaware River Falls, opposite the Delaware River from Trenton, New Jersey.

In the State of Pennsylvania, a borough is considered a self-governing municipal entity, best thought of as a town, and usually smaller than a city, but with fewer powers and responsibilities than full-fledged cities.

Pretty close to sounding like the word Moorish…think that might be a stretch? Let’s take a look at this more closely.

We are told Morrisville was named after Robert Morris, an English-born merchant and Founding Father. He was a businessman turned politician, and is best known for being the Financier of the American Revolution. He campaigned unsuccessfully for Morrisville to become the new Nation’s Capital.

This is a portrait of him painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1782, originally hung in Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

I wonder what he is holding in his right hand…and interesting that there is a view of a classical-looking building through the window he is sitting next to. In the United States in 1782?

When I looked up the Coat-of-Arms of Robert Morris, Founding Father, this is what I found:

I looked up the Morris Coat-of-Arms, and while there are several versions, this is one of them…

…compared with the flag of Sardinia, a large island in the Mediterranean off the coast of Italy, which is nicknamed the Four Moors flag…

…and the flag of Corsica, an island just north of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea.

Then there are Morris Dancers in England, who practice a group dance form of choreographed steps, with bells on the knees, and wielding sticks, swords, or handkerchiefs.

It is said the name of Morris Dance is first recorded in the 15th-century as Moorish Dance. Here is a 1480 statue of a Moorish Dancer at the Old Townhall in Munich.

Graystones in Morrisville is where William Penn is said to have purchased the first Pennsylvania land in 1682 from the Lenni Lenape…

…and here is the massive gray stone at the top of the land purchase on Crown Street in Morrisville, to the left of that historical marker.

It is interesting to note that both of these important men in the historical narrative, Wllliam Penn and Robert Morris, are said to have ended up in debtor’s prison before they died because of financial problems.

The Lincoln Highway, the one of the nation’s earliest transcontinental highways, goes through Morrisville.

The Lincoln Highway starts in Times Square in New York City, and ends up in Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It is said to have opened in 1913.

The Calhoun Street Toll Supported Bridge is between Morrisville and Trenton. It was said to have been constructed in 1884 by the Phoenix Bridge Company.

This bridge helps connect segments of the 3,000-mile-long East Coast Greenway, which runs from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Florida.

The Calhoun Street Bridge was part of the Lincoln Highway until 1920, at which time the Lincoln Highway was re-routed to the toll-free Lower Trenton Bridge.

A portion of the Delaware Canal State Park is in Morrisville.

The canal that runs through Morrisville was said to have been built in the 1830s between Easton to the North and Bristol to the South…

…and a crushed-stone towpath, upon which mules pulled cargo-laden boats.

So, somehow the technology existed in the 1830s to build a sophisticated canal system, and they had the ability to crush stone into tiny, tiny pieces, but that the boats themselves had to be pulled by mules?

This is certainly what we are taught, but does this make sense?

I checked out Core Creek Park in Morrisville because I always find things in parks, and sure enough, it has a folly…

…that is similar to the one in Nemours Gardens in Wilmington, Delaware.

Robert Morris lived at Summerseat in Morrisville. Note the windows going underground, like there is more of this building below the ground…

…and which was a busy place during the American Revolutionary War…

Morrisville is where Washington established his camp in the winter of the famous crossing of the Delaware River, and where the British Garrison in Trenton was defeated, marking a turning point in the war in favor of the American forces.

So this brings us to Trenton, the capital of New Jersey, and briefly the U. S. Capital in 1784.

The New Jersey State Capitol Building is just right across the Delaware River from Morrisville, said to have been built in 1790, and the oldest state house in continuous legislative use in the United States. Built 7 years after the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783?

How? We can’t build like this even today.

And the beginning of the Industrial Revolution wasn’t said to have really gotten underway in the United States until approximately the mid-1800s.

There were a number of mills in Trenton, New Jersey.

The paper mill on Assunpink Creek in Trenton was already described as old in the 1870s. With the guy in the top hat standing in the mid-ground; the two guys underneath the bridge in the background; the group of four on the bridge itself; and with no other activity going on, this photo seems really odd to me. What were they doing there?

Assunpink Creek was also the location of the Second Battle of Trenton between British and American forces on January 2nd, 1777, which the Americans won.

Here are structures of the Assunpink Creek today.

Nothing out-of-the-ordinary to see here, right?

Here is a close-up of the foundation of the building, showing what appears to be large blocks of masonry.

This building in Trenton was the Exton Mill on the left, compared with the design features of what is called an old church at the abandoned settlement of Ushakovskoye, on Wrangel Island on the East Siberian Sea in the middle; and that of the building in Jerome, Arizona, on the right.

The Delaware and Raritan Canal connects the Delaware River at Bordentown, New Jersey, and the Raritan River at New Brunswick, New Jersey. This a distance of 44 miles, or 71 kilometers.

It goes through Trenton…

…on its way to the New Brunswick Terminus. We are told the canal was built between 1830 and 1834. Again, the sophistication of the engineering of these canals does not match the low technology of the times in which they are said to have been built.

Here is one of the locks on the Delaware and Raritan Canal.

This building is in Trenton’s West End…

…compared with this one in Fort Madison, Iowa…

…and this one in Kherson, Ukraine.

I found this historic photo of the Orpheum Theater on the left side of this street in Trenton.

Orpheum was the name of many theaters at one time, and the root of this goes back to the Greek god Orpheus. He had the ability to charm all living things through his music, which essentially means casting a spell.

Here is a historic photo of the Orpheum Theater in Springfield, Illinois.

This is the Orpheus Statue at Fort McHenry, said to be the winning design by Charles Niehaus in a contest held in 1916 to come up with a monument to commemorate the centennial of the writing of the “Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key.

This 40-foot statue of Orpheus is said to have been greeting visitors to Fort McHenry in Baltimore since 1922.

Just want to put this out as food for thought as to why Orpheus could possibly be commemorated in ways like these in our relatively recent past.

One last place in New Jersey that I would like to visit before I finish this post are the Kittatinny Mountains. They are roughly 70 miles, or 110-kilometers, north-northwest of Trenton, and slightly northeast of the Delaware River Gap.

This obelisk serves at the High Point Veterans’ Memorial in the Kittatinny Mountains…

…and this is a photo of the Kittatinny Ridge, with some very geometric-looking blocks of stone, and straight-edges seen throughout the blocks of stone pictured.

I will be picking up the alignment in the New York Bay area in the next post.

I started this new Circle Alignment in Washington, DC, in the last post, and tracked it as far as Baltimore. This alignment pretty much travels through cities on the east coast along I-95, and comes to Wilmington, Delaware next.

Wilmington is the largest and most populous city in the State of Delaware.

These were the lands of the Lenni Lenape people, also called the Delaware Indians, which also historically included: present-day New Jersey; eastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River watershed; New York City; western Long Island; and the Lower Hudson Valley.

According the history we have been taught, everything changed for the Lenni Lenape after Henry Hudson sailed up what is now called the Delaware River in 1609.

Twenty-nine years after Henry Hudson came through, came the Swedish South Company’s settlement of Fort Christina, named after Queen Christina of Sweden.

It was built in 1638, the first Swedish settlement in North America, and the principal settlement of the New Sweden Colony. Here’s an early map showing a star fort at this location flying a Swedish flag.

This is an old post card showing Fort Christina’s location, with a monument, and arrows are pointing towards a feature known as The Rocks, as well as the nicely-shaped masonry shoreline.

Twelve miles south of Wilmington, Fort Delaware is located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River.

Fort Delaware was said to have been built starting in 1819.

This is a close-up view of one of the points of this star fort.

Wilmington is built out around the confluence of the Christina and Brandywine Rivers. I am seeing what is actually a canal system here, like I have seen in other places.

Brandywine Creek State Park is three-miles north of Wilmington. Much of this park was part of the duPont family’s Winterthur Estate. In 1965, the State of Delaware purchased 433-acres (or 175 hectares) of it, and established the park.

This impressive and huge stone bridge is also found in Brandywine Creek State Park…

…as well as this feature, called the Third Dam.

One of Wilmington’s nicknames is “Chemical Capital of the World.”

The Edgemoor Chemours Chemical factory operated here until 2015.

It was purchased by the Port of Wilmington. I was drawn to look at Edgemoor because of the moor in the name. The memory of the people is retained in the name. Then there is a moor sound going on in Chemours…

…as well as Nemours, the 300-acre, or 120-hectare, country garden estate of the late industrialist Alfred I. duPont.

This architectural style is called a folly, which is defined as a decorative building that doesn’t serve much of a purpose, even if it is meant to look like it does. That’s interesting. I wonder what they are not telling us they are telling us. Sounds like a cover-up code word to me, like the use of the word bluff being used to disguise ancient infrastructure.

At any rate, the folly in Wilmington at Nemours Gardens on the left is similar in appearance to the two follies in England on the right.

Here is a comparison of a very similar-looking building design detail in Wilmington, Delaware on the top, and in Jerome, Arizona on the bottom.

This Edgemoor neighborhood home on the left has an impressive and sturdy stone tower right next to it, and for comparison is the Grimstone Park Tower in North Yorkshire in England on the right.

Close to Wilmington, on the other side of the Delaware River in Penns Grove, I would like to share another architectural similarity to Jerome, Arizona, which is an ancient mining town close to where I live.

Compare the similarities between these three homes in Penns Grove on the left; Jerome, Arizona in the middle; and Providence Rhode Island on the right.

Next on the alignment, we come to Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania, and the 6th-largest in the United States.

I consistently find interesting things at reservoirs.

So I looked into the Upper Roxborough Reservoir, and found out that it is an abandoned watershed project in northwest Philadelphia. These stately structures are described as filters of the reservoir.

It brought to mind the fort the Portuguese are said to have built on Hormuz Island after they captured the island between the United Arab Emirates and Iran in 1507 – the interestingly named Fort of Our Lady of the Conception (for a fort?)…

…and I first learned of this pedestrian underground located for the Crystal Palace in London from a recent video on “Metaphysical Alignments Across London and Britain” made by the Moorish Culture Classes’ YouTube Channel.

I have talked about the Crystal Palace in past posts because the story we are told about it makes no sense, but I didn’t know about the underground or advanced geometries associated with the Crystal Palace.

These next three photos were taken at the Wissahickon State Park just below the Upper Roxborough Reservoir.

The Schuylkill River flows past near here on its way through Philadelphia to the Delaware River.

The Schuylkill River flows past Fairmount Park.

The Smith Memorial Arch is a gateway to West Fairmount Park, said to be an American Civil War monument…

…on the grounds of the 1876 Centennial Exposition, the first official World’s Fair in the United States.

This is the Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, said to have been built for the 1876 Centennial Expo, and the only major structure from that exhibition to survive.

This is the original Horticultural Hall, no longer standing, that was said to be designed for the 1876 Exposition in the Moresque style of the twelfth-century…

…and looks a lot on the outside like some Oklahoma High Schools to me, like this historic photo of the original Central High School in Tulsa.

The Shofusa Japanese House and Garden is just across the Schuylkill River from Fairmount Park, with its peaceful appearance, and what looks like ancient stonework next to the water.

The Schuylkill River enters the Delaware River in the neighborhood of the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

The Philadelphia Navy Yard, or the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, has been an important naval shipyard of the United States for over two centuries, said to have begun in 1776.

The Philadelphia Navy Yard was also the location for the Philadelphia Experiment in 1942, which I have speculated on as a causal factor for the creation of a new time-loop between 1492 and 1942 in my “An Explanation for What Happened to the Positive Timeline of Humanity & Associated Historical Anomalies and Events” post.

This is the Delaware River on the Philadelphia waterfront, with its nice masonry banks.

This building on the municipal pier is now the front for condominiums on the Delaware River, but I see the signature features for Moorish architecture here as well.

And this is a view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Schuylkill River. Ummmhhh, this looks like ancient Greco-Roman architecture to me…

…and for comparison, this is the Museum of Art in Budapest, Hungary. What is going on here?

I want to leave you with images from Benjamin Rush State Park, on the far northeastern edge of Philadelphia.

Benjamin Rush was considered a Founding Father of the United States, a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and founder of Dickinson College.

This is Benjamin Rush State Park in the far northeast corner of Philadelphia….

I will pick up the alignment in the area around Trenton, New Jersey in the next post.