Construction of the building began in 1856 and it served as a school from 1857-1925. The upper floor housed the high school,
accessible through the door on the front right side of the building and led to the stairway to the second floor. . . . — — Map (db m244298) HM
Here, Caspar Wistar began the manufacture of glass in 1739. His son Richard carried on the business till the Revolution made it unprofitable. This was the beginning of an industry important in South Jersey for 150 years. — — Map (db m298794) HM
1951 — 1968
South Span — Dedicated August 16, 1951
North Span — Dedicated September 12, 1968
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dedicated these bridges on September 12, 1968 to the men and women of the State of Delaware and . . . — — Map (db m25561) HM
Formally organized in 1741, through services had been held as early as 1720. The old church was built in 1767. School here came to be called “Pittsgrove College”, because of number of students prepared for college by the ministers. — — Map (db m88458) HM
Not far from here on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, in 1643, the Swedes erected an earthwork fort with three angles, on order of Gov. Johan Printz to control the River. It was commanded by Lieut. Sven Skute, and was abandoned in 1651. — — Map (db m298456) HM
In memory of those patriots who were massacred by the British in this house March 21, 1778 ---------- Erected by Oak Tree Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Salem New Jersey 1903 — — Map (db m21591) HM
The winter of 1777 – 1778 had been particularly harsh on both the British and the Colonial troops. British commanders learned that the rich agricultural supplies in lower New Jersey could be obtained with little resistance and sent detachments to . . . — — Map (db m21604) HM
Old Bridges at this Location The first bridge across Alloways Creek at this location was built by John Hancock and others in 1709 and was known as Hancocks Bridge. The same year (1709) two other bridges were built across Alloways Creek, one at . . . — — Map (db m21606) HM
In commemoration of the patriots massacred in the Hancock House March 21, 1778. Erected by the Patriotic Order Sons of America of Salem County July 2, 1932. — — Map (db m21592) HM
The exterior of the Hancock House is an outstanding example of the patterned brick houses that once dotted the landscape of Salem County, NJ. Modeled after the seventeenth-century building traditions of the Quakers’ English homeland, masons used . . . — — Map (db m21703) HM
This single-room cabin is a rare remaining example of hand-hewn, white cedar plank construction and reflects a traditional Swedish cabin. This cabin, with its glazed windows, is more elaborate than those typically constructed in the . . . — — Map (db m127787) HM
The Alloway Creek Watershed Wetland Restoration SiteThe Alloway Creek Watershed Site encompasses approximately 3,096 acres of wetland and upland edge in Elsinboro and Lower Alloway Creek Township, Salem County. This site follows the north side . . . — — Map (db m127788) HM
Salt marshes are one of the most productive habitats in the world and possess many surprising qualities and benefits – protecting the mainland from flooding and the effects of erosion, filtering sediments and some pollutants from the water, and . . . — — Map (db m44026) HM
Founder of New Salem
1675
First permanent English settlement on the Delaware
Here at Fenwicke Grove lies buried
Major John Fenwicke
1618 -- 1683
Late Absolute Lord or Cheife Propriatary by — — Map (db m304140) HM
The original 1872 plans specified that eleven gun emplacements with twenty guns and a mortar battery with six emplacements were to be built. Only two gun emplacements and two magazines were ever completed, the magazines are still visible to your . . . — — Map (db m22040) HM
Civil War Dead An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. . . . — — Map (db m312872) HM
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that . . . — — Map (db m114213) HM
Emplacement #1 magazine had a capacity of 494 rounds in cases and 96 rounds in rack or total of 590 rounds. Ammunition was served to this passageway by two endless chain hoists with hooks. The hoists were connected by belts to small motors. These . . . — — Map (db m22018) HM
The three 12-inch guns were mounted at Fort Mott between February and June, 1898. The guns and carriages were unloaded from vessels at the government wharf and transported down the rail lines behind the parapet. The guns were hauled up inclined . . . — — Map (db m21770) HM
After the two 5-inch guns were removed in 1917, an observation station was built over one of the original gun emplacements. This structure, the battery commander’s station for Battery Arnold, was made of reinforced concrete at a cost of $850.00. It . . . — — Map (db m22019) HM
Named in honor of Captain Robert Edwards, who was killed in action near Frenchtown, Michigan in 1813. Battery Edwards has two casemates for 3-inch rapid fire guns, and was partially constructed using two magazines from the 1872 fortification. The . . . — — Map (db m21790) HM
Battery Gregg is named in honor of Captain John C. Gregg, who served as Captain in the 4th Infantry and was killed in action near Mariquana, Philippine Islands, on March 31, 1899. Completed in December 1900, Battery Gregg was the fourth of Fort . . . — — Map (db m21735) HM
Battery Harker was named in honor of General Charles G. Harker, who served in the 2nd, 9th and 11th Infantry and was killed in action at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 27, 1864.
This battery has three emplacements for 10-inch . . . — — Map (db m21772) HM
Named in honor of Captain Maurice Krayenbuhl, who was killed in action near Meycausyan, Philippine Islands in March 1899. Battery Krayenbuhl’s two 5-inch rapid fire guns on the right flank of the heavy caliber battery, in conjunction with the rapid . . . — — Map (db m22015) HM
The 5-inch gun platforms, finished in the summer of 1899, had to be changed to conform to changes in the type of gun mount to be installed. The platforms had to be cut down approximately one foot, and the new platform was ready by December 2, 1899. . . . — — Map (db m21794) HM
In 1638, the New Sweden Company financed a group of Swedes and Finns to travel to the New World to establish a colony for trade with the Native Americans and to learn about the land. These early settlers traveled up the Delaware River, entered the . . . — — Map (db m88581) HM
The Fort Delaware Prison
The federal government constructed Fort Delaware between 1848 and 1859. Located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, the fort was built to defend Philadelphia.
In the second year of the Civil War, Fort . . . — — Map (db m312861) HM
Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of 2436 Confederate soldiers who died at Fort Delaware while prisoners of war and whose graves cannot now be individually identified. — — Map (db m21655) WM
Though located far from any site of armed conflict, Finn’s Point National Cemetery exists as a direct result of the American Civil War. It is the resting place for the remains of 2,436 Confederate soldiers whose military careers ended as . . . — — Map (db m21651) HM
Near here
300 years ago and later lived the first colony of settlers of Finnish blood upon this continent
To their memory and to the love of freedom and justice that they handed down to their descendants this tablet is erected
June . . . — — Map (db m68758) HM
Historical Information
Finn's Point National Cemetery is located about six miles northwest of Salem, N.J., at the north end of what was Fort Mott Military Reservation. Today, the picturesque cemetery is entirely surrounded by the . . . — — Map (db m312858) HM
Fort Delaware
Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island, in the Delaware River, was part of a system of permanent fortifications built between 1817 and 1861 to protect the U.S. coastline. Built over ten years, the fort protected the ports of . . . — — Map (db m312873) HM
The Finns Point Range lights served as a point of entry and exit for maritime traffic between the Delaware Bay and River. In 1950, after the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the channel to 800 feet wide and 40 feet deep, the Finns Point Rangelights . . . — — Map (db m65260) HM
Property of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Guided ships through the upper Delaware Bay from April 2, 1877 to March 22, 1950. Through the efforts of private citizens coordinated by the "Save the Lighthouse Committee," the 115-foot iron tower was . . . — — Map (db m65259) HM
The forts electrical plant was placed in a room sixteen feet by thirty feet in the west end of the main battery. The original plans for generating electrical power at the battery used a coal fired steam system. Two 25 kilowatt General Electric . . . — — Map (db m22035) HM
Each emplacement had two cranes located at the edge of the gun platform. These service cranes were used to raise and lower party and equpiment in addition to providing emergency back up for the ammunition hoists.
Each emplacement had a set . . . — — Map (db m312896) HM
At the gun platform level, the projectiles were loaded onto an ammunition track. Soldiers then pushed the truck with the projectiles to the breech for loading into the cannon. Gun crews could quickly load and fire the large 10- and 12-inch . . . — — Map (db m312898) HM
Some of the means employed for the transmission of orders and information in the coast artillery service were as follows: radiotelegraphy for communication between coast-defense headquarters, other radio stations, and boats equipped with radio . . . — — Map (db m312894) HM
This tree dedicated by the Veterans Administration in 1976 to America's Medal of Honor recipients who helped make this bicentennial observance possible "by gallantry abo ve and beyond the call of duty" — — Map (db m312888) WM
The New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route is a “park in the making”—an idea becoming a reality. Many of its sites are available for you to visit. When complete, the Trail will link numerous natural and cultural landmarks into a story of coastal . . . — — Map (db m312859) HM
Fifty-two feet above the ground, soldiers in this observational tower were able to identify an enemy vessel, calculate its speed and distance, note weather conditions and communicate this information to the main plotting room and the ten-inch . . . — — Map (db m88583) HM
Since Fort Mott was a self contained community with its own hospital, school, library, and YMCA, many married officers brought their families to live with them on the post in Army provided housing. Along Officer's Row were several single . . . — — Map (db m312893) HM
In the early twentieth-century, when Fort Mott was an active military post, the parade ground was the hub of daily life at the fort. The soldiers' day began and ended here. In the morning, troops gathered on the Parade for Colors and flag . . . — — Map (db m312891) HM
Fort Mott was one of three forts built at this location on the Delaware River. At this section of the Delaware estuary, the waterway narrows from a broad bay into a river. Considered a strategic location early in the nineteenth century, . . . — — Map (db m21710) HM
Pea Patch Island Heronry is the largest Atlantic Coast nesting ground north of Florida for wading birds. Originally a dredge disposal site, this vegetated high ground has been a nesting habitat for nine species of wading birds since the 1970s. It . . . — — Map (db m44021)
A Special emphasis was placed on keeping the interiors of the defensive magazines under the various batteries dry. According to an excerpt from, “Reports on 5-inch Guns, Fort Dupont and Fort Mott, December, 1900, Operations” which references Battery . . . — — Map (db m21792) HM
Once the administrative heart of the fort, the Post Headquarters housed the office of the Post Commander. The other personnel assigned to the headquarters were the Materiel officer and the Adjutant. Activities such as general corresponcence, . . . — — Map (db m312889) HM
The burial of prisoners of war (POWs) in soldiers' and national cemeteries dates to the Civil War (1861-1865). The United States and Confederacy collectively held more than 400,000 prisoners in overcrowded camps. Mortality rates were high. Based . . . — — Map (db m312887) HM
Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is located within the Atlantic Flyway-one of four major migration corridors which pass through the continental United States. The refuge provides crucial and diverse habitat for wildlife seeking nourishment . . . — — Map (db m88561)
Switchboard Room A central Switchboard room is where all the important communications emanated. By means of this switchboard, all base lines were made interchangeable. A distribution switchboard was installed in a switchboard room as a . . . — — Map (db m22036) HM
Two latrines were built within the parados for soldiers assigned to the gun batterys. The bathrooms each had several toilets for enlisted men, a private stall for officers and a large cast-iron urinal. Toilets were similar to our modern . . . — — Map (db m22021) HM
The parados (Spanish for rear door) is the earthen hill adjacent to the gun battery. It serve as a shield against gunfire from the rear. Construction of the moat and parados at Fort Mott began in 1897 and took over two years to complete.
The . . . — — Map (db m88582) WM
The construction of a fortification the size of Fort Mott required the delivery of a large amount of materials and equipment. The river provided an excellent “highway” and the government constructed a wharf to receive the construction materials. . . . — — Map (db m22022) HM
Battery Harker and Battery Arnold share the continuous 750 foot long parapet wall. Battery Harker (right) contains three 10-inch gun emplacements and Battery Arnold (left) has three 12-inch gun emplacements. A protective earthwork, the parados, was . . . — — Map (db m21749) HM
Near this stone lie the remains of 105 United States soldiers whose names so far as known are hereon inscribed, but whose graves cannot be identified.
They died for their country. — — Map (db m21656) WM
In honor of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to the United States of America and the families they left behind. The sacrifice will not be forgotten. — — Map (db m312860) WM
In commemoration of the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall Visitation
September 25-30, 2019
[Name, Panel, Line]
Claude W. McBride, 1E, 27 •
Charles F. Coiner, 5E, 96 •
Richard N. Gereau, 5E, 117 •
Donald L. Lehew, 10E, 48 • . . . — — Map (db m160207) WM
Fort Mott is an Endicott-era fortification (ca. 1896) that was begun prior to the Spanish-American War. Construction of an earlier fortification, known as the Battery at Finns Point, was begun in 1872 but never completed. Components of the . . . — — Map (db m21660) HM
Fort Mott is an Endicott-era fortification (ca. 1896) that was begun prior to the Spanish-American War. Construction of an earlier fortification, known as the Battery at Finns Point, was begun in 1872 but never completed. Components of the . . . — — Map (db m312900) HM
Island Point was originally constructed by Company 1225 of the Civilian Conservation Corps as a picnic area. The work included the demolition of 18 cottages along the south shore of the lake, clearing of 3 acres of woods, construction of a . . . — — Map (db m153926) HM
Constructed by the members of Company 2229V (Veterans of WWI) Civilian Conservation Corps
1939 - 1941
Total Construction Cost $105,076.82 — — Map (db m153927) HM
On March 17, 1778, Colonial militia formed a line of defense on the south bank of Alloways Creek. The British, having occupied Salem, attacked the next day and by a ruse drew the Colonials across the creek into a(n) ambush. Seven Colonials died in . . . — — Map (db m88443) HM
Built 1721 with earlier portions constructed c. 1690-1700. In addition to serving as a residence, these buildings once housed a temperance hotel and medical offices. John S. Rock, the first African-American attorney admitted to practice law before . . . — — Map (db m168704) HM
Originally named "Bridge Street" for the northern Fenwick Creek crossing and first town entrance, most buildings date from the late 18th and early 19th centuries representing an American town from over 200 years ago.
National Register of . . . — — Map (db m153701) HM
Originally named "Wharf Street" this was the town's road to the Port of Salem, which was Salem's trade link to the outside world. Most buildings date from between 1820 and 1890.
National Register of Historic Places
United States Park . . . — — Map (db m153665) HM
Esther “Hetty” Saunders was a remarkable woman of color who began her life in the early 1790s as a slave in Delaware. In 1800, her father saw an opportunity to escape to freedom with his children, crossing the Delaware River into . . . — — Map (db m36431) HM
1891 Built as Ford's Hotel.
1919 Converted to Salem County Memorial Hospital in memoriam to WWI soldiers and sailors. Opened with 30 beds, 12 physicians and surgeons. First year 1093 patients treated.
1951 Hospital vacated building relocating . . . — — Map (db m88554) HM
Built in 1891 as Ford's Hotel, then considered the most elegant and modern of several hotels in town. Converted to Salem County Memorial Hospital in 1919, dedicated to fallen soldiers of WWI. In 1951 the growing hospital moved to Mannington . . . — — Map (db m153710) HM
Top panel New Jersey Register of Historic Places 1974; National Register of Historic Places 1975; Significant for its Romanesque and Gothic ecclesiastical architecture, its steeple structural design and for being a work of architect John . . . — — Map (db m88543) HM
This oak tree, a survivor of the original forest, was standing here when Salem was founded by John Fenwick in 1675. It is eighty-eight feet high and its foliage covers one-quarter of an acre. “This tablet was erected on October 10th, 1925, . . . — — Map (db m21659) HM
To keep in perpetual remembrance the name of
John Fenwick
1618-1683
Major in the Army of Oliver Cromwell, 1648
Proprietor of the Salem Tenth
Member of the Assembly of West New Jersey, 1681
"That my said . . . — — Map (db m153699) HM
has been designated a National Historic Landmark. This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America. Reuben Cuff founded this church in 1800. This present structure was built in 1878.
Rev. . . . — — Map (db m127817) HM
Built in 1806, was the residence of Col. Robert Gibbon Johnson, historian, agriculturist and champion of "New Jersey tomatoes." — — Map (db m300906) HM
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