Port Elizabeth
Cumberland County, NJ

Directions:

South of Port Elizabeth, intersection of Routes 47 and 670; 1.4 miles south of the volunteer fire department building in Port Elizabeth.

History:

Elizabeth Ray Bodly

1737 -- Of Swedish descent, Elizabeth Ray was born to the John Ray family in what is now Pilesgrove Township, Salem County.

At young age - she marries Cornelius Clark of Burlington, NJ; they buy a large tract of land near the Maurice River.

They had four children: Joel, John, Susan, and Elizabeth.

Her husband died early and Elizabeth was left to care for the farm and her four children. Fortunately, she had one of the best meadowlands for harvest in the area.

Elizabeth marries John Bodly and they have two children together. She was a Quaker and became somewhat of a local philanthropist.

Shortly, however, John Bodly dies. Around this time they name the area Port Elizabeth in honor of Elizabeth.

1789 -- Port Elizabeth named as official port of delivery

1802 -- post office established

Among the businesses established were the Union Glass Works, the Eagle Glass Works and a hotel.

1815 -- Elizabeth dies at the age of 78.

Port Elizabeth languished as Millville prospered with its glass making.

Peterson, Robert A. 1998. Patriots, Pirates, and Pineys: Sixty Who Shaped New Jersey. Medford, NJ: Plexus Publishing Inc.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Gerry Moore

Trees:
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Albizia julibrissin (silk tree)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Carya glabra (pignut hickory)
Carya pallida (pale hickory)
Carya tomentosa (mockernut hickory)
Celtis occidentalis (northern hackberry)
Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic white cedar)
Chionanthus virginicus (fringe tree)
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)
Diospyros virginiana (persimmon)
Ilex opaca (American holly)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)
Magnolia virginiana (sweetbay magnolia)
Morus alba (white mulberry)
Nyssa sylvatica (tupelo)
Pinus echinata (shortleaf pine)
Pinus rigida (pitch pine)
Pinus serotina (pond pine)
Pinus taeda (loblolly pine)
Pinus thunbergii (Japanese black pine)
Pinus virginiana (Virginia pine)
Populus grandidentata (big-toothed aspen)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus coccinea (scarlet oak)
Quercus falcata (Spanish oak)
Quercus marilandica (blackjack oak)
Quercus phellos (willow oak)
Quercus prinus (chestnut oak)
Quercus prinus x Quercus alba (hybrid oak)
Quercus stellata (post oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Salix nigra (black willow)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)

Shrubs:
Alnus serrulata (smooth alder)
Amelanchier canadensis (coastal shadbush)
Aronia arbutifolia (red chokeberry)
Baccharis halimifolia (groundsel bush)
Chimaphila maculata (striped wintergreen)
Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepperbush)
Comptonia peregrina (sweetfern)
Decodon verticillatus (swamp loosestrife)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Epigaea repens (trailing arbutus)
Eubotrys racemosa (fetterbush)
Gaultheria procumbens (teaberry)
Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry)
Gaylussacia frondosa (blue huckleberry)
Hudsonia ericoides (golden heather)
Ilex glabra (inkberry)
Iva frutescens (marsh elder)
Kalmia angustifolia (sheepskill)
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)
Lyonia mariana (staggerbush)
Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle bayberry)
Myrica pensylvanica (bayberry)
Prunus maritima (beach plum)
Quercus ilicifolia (scrub oak)
Rhododendron viscosum (swamp azalea)
Rhus copallina (winged sumac)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus cuneifolius (sand dewberry)
Rubus flagellaris (common dewberry)
Rubus hispidus (swamp dewberry)
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)
Vaccinium macrocarpon (cranberry)
Vaccinium pallidum (hillside blueberry)
Viburnum dentatum (arrowwood viburnum)
Viburnum nudum (possumhaw viburnum)

Vines:
Dioscorea villosa (wild yam-root)
Hedera helix (English holly)
Ipomoea hederacea (ivy-leaved morning glory) 9/21/02
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Smilax glauca (sawbrier)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis aestivalis (summer grape)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
Amaranthus cannabinus (salt marsh water hemp)
Amaranthus hybridus (hybrid amaranthus)
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed) 9/21/02
Antennaria sp. (pussytoes)
Apocynum sp. (dogbane)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)
Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed)
Aster novi-belgii (New York aster) 9/29/01
Atriplex hastata (hastate-leaved orache)
Baptisia tinctoria (yellow wild indigo)
Bidens comosa (strawstem beggar tick) 9/21/02
Bidens polylepis (Ozark beggar ticks)? 9/21/02
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed) 9/21/02 9/29/01
Chamaecrista fasciculata (partridge pea)
Chamaecrista nictitans (wild sensitive plant) 9/29/01
Chenopodium album (pigweed)
Chenopodium pumilio (pigweed) 9/21/02
Chondrilla juncea (skeleton weed)
Chrysopsis mariana (Maryland golden aster) 9/21/02
Cichorium intybus (chicory)
Conyza canadensis (horseweed) 9/21/02
Coronilla varia (crown vetch)
Croton glandulosus (tooth-leaved croton)
Datura stramonium (jimsonweed) 9/29/01
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace) 9/29/01
Desmodium marilandicum (Maryland tick trefoil)
Desmodium paniculatum (panicled tick trefoil)
Diodia teres (button weed) 9/21/02
Drosera intermedia (spatulate-leaved sundew)
Echium vulgare (viper's bugloss) 9/29/01
Eriocaulon aquaticum (common pipewort)
Eupatorium album (white boneset) 9/29/01 waning
Eupatorium hyssopifolium (hyssop-leaved boneset) 9/29/01 waning
Eupatorium pilosum (rough boneset) 9/29/01 waning
Eupatorium rotundifolium (round-leaved boneset) 9/29/01 waning
Eupatorium rotundifolium v. ovatum (hairy boneset) 9/21/02
Euphorbia ipecacuanhae (ipecac spurge)
Euphorbia maculata (spotted spurge)
Euthamia tenuifolia (narrow-leaved goldenrod) 9/21/02
Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry)
Froelichia gracilis (slender cottonweed)
Gnaphalium obtusifolium (sweet everlasting) 9/21/02 9/29/01
Gratiola aurea (yellow hedge hyssop) 9/21/02
Helianthemum canadense (frostweed)
Helianthemum propinquum (pine barrens frostweed)
Heterotheca subaxillaris (camphorweed) 9/21/02 9/29/01
Hieracium gronovii (hairy hawkweed) 9/21/02
Hypericum gentianoides (orange grass)
Hypericum canadense (Canada St. Johnswort) 9/21/02
Hypericum mutilum (dwarf St. Johnswort) 9/21/02
Hypochaeris radicata (cat's ear) 9/21/02 9/29/01
Lactuca canadensis (wild lettuce)
Lepidium virginicum (poor man's pepper) 9/21/02
Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bushclover)
Lespedeza cuneata (Chinese bushclover) 9/21/02 9/29/01
Lespedeza procumbens (trailing bushclover)
Lespedeza repens (smooth trailing bushclover) 9/29/01
Lespedeza striata (Japanese bushclover)
Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower) 9/21/02
Lotus corniculatus (birdfoot trefoil)
Lycopus spp. (bugleweed)
Ludwigia palustris (water purslane)
Melampyrum lineare (cow wheat) 9/21/02
Melilotus alba (white sweet clover) 9/21/02
Mollugo verticillata (carpetweed) 9/21/02
Myriophyllum humile (lowly water milfoil)
Nuphar sp. (spatterdock)
Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose) 9/21/02
Oxalis stricta (yellow wood sorrel) 9/21/02
Petrorhagia prolifera (childing pink) 9/21/02 9/29/01
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed)
Plantago aristata (bracted plantain)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)
Plantago major (common plantain)
Polygala lutea (orange milkwort) 9/21/02
Polygala nuttallii (Nuttall's milkwort)
Polygonella articulata (jointweed) 9/21/02 9/29/01
Polygonum aviculare (knotweed) 9/21/02
Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)
Rhexia mariana (dull meadow beauty)
Rhexia virginica (wing stem meadow beauty)
Samolus floribundus (water pimpernel) 9/21/02
Saponaria officinalis (bouncing bet) 9/29/01
Solidago canadensis var. altissima (giant goldenrod) 9/29/01
Solidago nemoralis (gray goldenrod) 9/29/01
Solidago odora (sweet goldenrod)
Solidago puberula (dusty goldenrod)?
Solidago rugosa (rough-stemmed goldenrod) 9/29/01
Solidago sempervirens (seaside goldenrod) 9/21/02
Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue)
Trichostema dichotomum (blue curls) 9/21/02
Trifolium arvense (rabbit's foot clover)
Trifolium pratense (red clover)
Trifolium repens (white clover) 9/21/02
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein) 9/21/02
Xanthium strumarium (clotbur) 9/21/02
Xyris difformis (yellow eyed grass)

Rushes:
Juncus effusus (soft rush)
Juncus pelocarpus (brown-fruited rush)
Juncus tenuis (path rush)

Sedges:
Bulbostylis capillaris (hair-like sedge)
Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)
Cladium mariscoides (twig rush)
Cyperus dentatus (toothed flatsedge)
Cyperus grayi (Gray's flatsedge)
Cyperus retrofractus (rough flatsedge)
Eleocharis englemanii (spikerush)?
Eleocharis microcarpa (small-fruited spikerush)
Eleocharis tenuis (slender spikerush)
Rhynchospora capitellata (small-headed br)
Scirpus cyperinus (woolly grass bulrush)
Scirpus robustus (salt marsh bulrush)
Scirpus subterminalis (water bulrush)
Scleria reticularis (reticulate whip grass)

Grasses:
Andropogon virginicus var. abbreviatus (Virginia bush beard grass)
Andropogon virginicus var. virginicus (Virginia broom beard grass)
Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal grass)
Aristida tuberculosa (three-awn grass)
Cenchrus tribuloides (dune sandbur)
Chasmanthium laxum (slender spike grass)
Cynodon dactylon (Bermuda grass)
Digitaria spp. (crab grass)
Eleusine indica (zipper grass)
Elymus sp. (wild rye grass)
Eragrostis pectinacea (Carolina love grass)
Eragrostis spectabilis (purple love grass)
Panicum dicanthelium (panic grass)
Panicum dichotomiflorum (fall panic grass)
Panicum longifolium (long-leaved panic grass)
Panicum spretum (spurned panicgrass)
Panicum verrucosum (warty panic grass)
Panicum virgatum (switch panic grass)
Paspalum setaceum (bead grass)
Phragmites australis (giant reedgrass)
Schizachyrium scoparium (little blue stem)
Setaria faberi (nodding foxtail grass)
Setaria viridis (green foxtail grass)
Spartina alterniflora (salt marsh cordgrass)
Spartina cynosuroides (big cordgrass)
Spartina patens (salt hay cordgrass)
Tridens flavus (purple top grass)
Triplasis purpurea (purple sand grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Lycopodium appressum (southern club moss)
Asplenium platyneuron (ebony spleenwort)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda regalis (royal fern)
Pteridium aquilinum (bracken fern)

Others:
(British soldiers)
(reindeer lichen)
Sphagnum sp. (sphagnum moss)

9/21/02

After lunch the group returned to the morning's meeting place and walked south along Route 47 down to mile marker 31 and then descended into the woods and down to a dried up pond and open meadow. The formerly wet meadow was literally covered with Gratiola aurea (yellow hedge hyssop) in bloom. Also here were Xyris difformis (yellow eyed grass) and Vaccinium macrocarpon (cranberry).

Then the group bushwacked west through the woods to find a set of ponds left over from sand mining operations. Here there were lots of plants of Eriocaulon aquaticum (common pipewort). Submerged in the water were many plants of the species Myriophyllum humile (lowly water milfoil). One shallow pond was covered with Scirpus subterminalis (water bulrush).

The group walked further west to cross a road and then walked a short ways south to pick up a trail along the railroad tracks leading back to our car parking area. Although the railroad tracks have only been abandoned for about five years, the tracks were covered with pine trees. In fact, there are lots of pine species in the area, including Pinus echinata (shortleaf pine), P. rigida (pitch pine), P. serotina (pond pine), P. taeda (loblolly pine), P. thunbergii (Japanese black pine), and P. virginiana (Virginia pine).

At times it was very tough going for the group as we had literally to push through the vegetation. When the tracks bordered a huge salt marsh area we had to push through the Baccharis halimifolia (groundsel bush). An interesting plant in bloom here was Samolus floribundus (water pimpernel).