{"id":536,"date":"2003-03-28T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2003-03-28T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/03\/28\/3-28-03\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T21:11:16","slug":"hackettstown-is-listed-as-helms-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/28\/hackettstown-is-listed-as-helms-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackettstown is listed as Helm’s Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s weirdness: The air freshener was recently patented<\/a>. U.S. Patent : #6,254,836<\/p>\n

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Here’s a good one… I borrowed Microsoft Streets & Trips from Dave B. Today I wrote him this letter.<\/p>\n

Hey, is there an update available for Microsoft Streets and Trips? This copy is a bit out of date. Hackettstown is listed as “Helm’s Mills”. It hasn’t been called that since at least 1780… maybe earlier. !!!!<\/p>\n

It’s weird, If you search for “Hackettstown, NJ” in MS Streets & Trips, it works fine. But when I downloaded a map into Pocket Streets on my Pocket PC, the name “Helm’s Mills” was in the place of where I know Hackettstown to be, and it claimed to not know where “Hackettstown” was! So I looked online and found some historical info mentioning that Hackettstown was, in fact called Helm’s Mills at some time in it’s distant past!<\/p>\n

You can verify this by searching for Helm’s Mills NJ in MS Streets and Maps. Up will pop downtown Hackettstown!<\/p>\n

Wacked!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll find out more about the history of Helm’s Mills and then write to Mr. Gates about his error…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s weirdness: The air freshener was recently patented. U.S. Patent : #6,254,836 ——————- Here’s a good one… I borrowed Microsoft Streets & Trips from Dave B. Today I wrote him this letter. Hey, is there an update available for Microsoft Streets and Trips? This copy is a bit out of date. Hackettstown is listed as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}