March 15, 2026
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June 26, 2018
Can You Tell Us about This Old Fyke CBC Map?
I stopped by the Brotherton house sale last week to see if I could find something to remember John by, and came across this incredible Christmas Bird Count map featuring the Ramsey circle.
The map, though musty, is a glimpse of our region before it got developed to a fare-thee-well. The map includes a ZIPcode for Hagstrom, so it can't be older than 1963.
Fyke got the map scanned, and it's now on view on the Fyke website.
You can see it here, and see how undeveloped this area was 50 years ago. You can enlare the map and see amazing details.
Does anyone know how old it is, and who drew the circle, etc., and who did the lettering?
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Fascinating map. I can say with certainty that it’s mid-50s or later. My father and mother purchased property in Upper Saddle River around 1953, before Brookside Drive was even put in. We used to have to bushwack through the woods to our two acres. My father named the circle off Brookside ‘Florence Court’—my mom’s name was Florence. We moved to USR in late ’54. Upper Saddle River was a sleepy farm town back then. An idyllic place to grow up. It was there that I first became interested in birds. We had a feeder…I still have my first bird guide, the Little Golden Book of Birds!
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Fascinating map. I can say with certainty that it’s mid-50s or later. My father and mother purchased property in Upper Saddle River around 1953, before Brookside Drive was even put in. We used to have to bushwack through the woods to our two acres. My father named the circle off Brookside ‘Florence Court’—my mom’s name was Florence. We moved to USR in late ’54. Upper Saddle River was a sleepy farm town back then. An idyllic place to grow up. It was there that I first became interested in birds. We had a feeder…I still have my first bird guide, the Little Golden Book of Birds!