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|  The Kay-Evans House @ Croft Farm - Cherry Hill, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers This historical sign can be found affixed to the front of the house to the right of the front door. From 1697-1897, four different mills earned the Kay and Evans families their livelihood. posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 2/17/2008 last visited: never |
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|  Historic Haddonfield - Haddonfield, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers In back of Greenfield Hall on Kings Highway is a marker posted high up on a shed which tells the history of this area in association with the Revolutionary War. You need to go through the gate on the right side and find the shed in the rear. posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 7/8/2008 last visited: never |
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|  Haddonfield - Haddon Fortnightly
in New Jersey Historical Markers The Haddon Fortnightly is a civic and social club for women and is a member of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/7/2006 last visited: 2/9/2008 |
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|  The Old Guardhouse - Haddonfield, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers This is one of the more interesting road-side markers lining Kings Highway East. It sits across from the Indian King Tavern marker and shares similar Revolutionary War history, according to the historical tablet placed in 1931. posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 8/9/2008 last visited: never |
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|  Haddonfield - Indian King Tavern
in New Jersey Historical Markers Haddonfield's Indian King Tavern is one of New Jersey's most historic buildings. Named for the local Lenape Indians, it is a premiere example of eighteenth-century colonial tavern architecture as well as the site where New Jersey was legally created. posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/7/2006 last visited: 10/10/2010 |
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|  Ye Kings Highway 1681 - Haddonfield, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers This marker is extremely easy to miss and overlook. I have passed by this portion of King Highway hundreds, probably thousands of times and it took a 4 1/2 year old to notice it and point it out to me. Look up, way up! posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 3/22/2008 last visited: never |
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|  The Old Grove School - Haddonfield, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers This marker is really beautiful. It is as official as a local municipality can get with a historical remembrance. It is surrounded by flag stone and ivy with a bench in front. Next year, this marker turns fifty! posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 3/22/2008 last visited: never |
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|  Haddonfield - Haddon Fire Company
in New Jersey Historical Markers Haddon Fire Company #1 the second olderst volenteer fire company in the country posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/16/2006 last visited: 2/9/2008 |
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|  Cherry Hill - Old Salem Road
in New Jersey Historical Markers The Old Salem Road, or Kings Highway was started in 1682. Part of it was what is now Main Street in Moorestown. This is the reason places like Mount Holly, Moorestown, and Haddonfield have so many homes that predate most ever built in Maple Shade. Maple Shade got its start for two reasons- The road that would later be built going to Camden and on to Market Street Philadelphia, and then the rail road.
posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/7/2006 last visited: 3/9/2008 |
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|  Haddonfield - Elizabeth Haddon
in New Jersey Historical Markers Elizabeth Haddon named this land "Haddonfield" in honor of her father. A wilderness in 1701, she saw many changes in what would be her home until her death in 1762 at age 82. posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/16/2006 last visited: 2/9/2008 |
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|  Jonas Cattell - Haddonfield, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers This historic marker is mounted on the right side of the 1777 house, next to an alley on the east side of Kings HIghway, smack dab in the middle of the Haddonfield Historic District. The house is marked by the Historical Society. posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 3/14/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Centennial Exposition - Haddonfield, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers Simple metallic , NJ historic marker attached to the right side of this 111 E. Kings Highway structure. posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 5/26/2010 last visited: never |
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|  Hadrosaurus Foulkii - Haddonfield, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers William Parker Foulke excavated the fossils of Hadrosaurus foulkii from a Haddonfield, NJ, marl pit in 1858, the first complete, intact set of dinosaur bones ever discovered. This historical sign marks the location of this important event. posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/16/2006 last visited: 8/8/2008 |
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|  Cherry Hill - Barclay Homestead
in New Jersey Historical Markers Step back in time at the Barclay Farmstead, an historical oasis in the heart of bustling Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Built in 1816 by a Quaker farmer, Joseph Thorn, the farmhouse and surrounding 32-acre property offers visitors an opportunity to observe and participate in the agrarian lifestyle that once dominated the South Jersey landscape. Now listed on the National & New Jersey Registers of Historic Places, the Barclay Farmstead is owned and operated by Cherry Hill Township.
posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/13/2006 last visited: 10/28/2007 |
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|  Bonnie's Bridge
in New Jersey Historical Markers This Revolutionary War artifact is located at 350 Wayland Rd., Cherry Hill, in someone's yard!!! posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 11/19/2007 last visited: never |
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|  N.J. Colonists & Lenni Lenape Indians - Haddonfield, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers This is a rather old marker and delineates the western most boundary of Haddonfield. It lies just inside the historic district as well. It tells the story of Indians and pioneers. posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 7/9/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Cherry Hill - Scarborough Covered Bridge
in New Jersey Historical Markers Scarborough Covered Bridge, on the aptly-named Covered Bridge Road, is the centerpiece of Cherry Hill's Barclay Farm neighborhood. The covered bridge, one of two still standing in New Jersey, was designed by famed architect Malcolm Wells and built across the Cooper River's north branch by homebuilder Bob Scarborough. It was dedicated on Valentine's Day in 1959 as 101 couples kissed to mark the tradition of the Kissing or Friendship Bridge.
See nearby Barclay Farmstead Waymark and Cache. posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/13/2006 last visited: 10/29/2007 |
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|  Historic Saddlertown - Haddon Twp., NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers A thirty-five year old marker tells about an old town that is no more. posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 9/18/2011 last visited: never |
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|  Haddon Twp. - Saddler's Woods
in New Jersey Historical Markers Saddler's Woods is named in honor of Joshua Saddler, a runaway slave credited as the first non-indigenous preservationist of the woods. posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/7/2006 last visited: 8/31/2011 |
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|  Samuel Coles House - Cherry Hill, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers Built in 1743, the Samuel Coles House is one of five NRHP located in Cherry Hill. Unlike the other sites, this one is a well-lived in house which has been restored by its owners over the last 50 years. posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 6/8/2008 last visited: never |
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|  Lawnside - Peter Mott House
in New Jersey Historical Markers Peter Mott (c. 1807-1881), an African American farmer, constructed this house around 1844 and resided there until 1879. According to persuasive oral testimonies, Mott and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Thomas Mott, provided refuge to escaping slaves during the years leading up to the Civil War. posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/16/2006 last visited: 10/10/2010 |
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|  Stokes-Lee House - Collingswood, NJ
in New Jersey Historical Markers This historic marker was supplied by the Department of the Interior to mark this house as a member of the Nat'l Register of Historical Places. It is located to the right of the front door, a few feet away, under the portico, 5 feet from the ground. posted by: Math Teacher location: New Jersey date approved: 12/31/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Lawnside
in New Jersey Historical Markers On April 20,1926, all who could, passed through the doors of the public school
on Warwick Road to cast their ballot in the "Official Special Election" of the
Borough of Lawnside. Just one month earlier, on March 23, 1926, New Jersey
Governor Moore signed into law State Assembly Bill 561, dissolving Center
Township, of which Lawnside was a part, and incorporating the Borough of Lawnside. With that First Election, Lawnside was propelled into the local and national spotlight and claimed a pl posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/16/2006 last visited: 12/7/2007 |
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|  Haddon Heights - Ebenezer Hopkins Home
in New Jersey Historical Markers The Georgian style Ebenezer Hopkins House sits along the Cooper River in Haddon Heights. Today hosts changing art exhibits in all media. Artwork is purchased from annual juried art exhibits to become part of the Camden County Art Bank. posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 6/10/2006 last visited: 4/8/2000 |
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|  Cherry Hill - Colestown Cemetery
in New Jersey Historical Markers Colestown Cemetery purchased by Samuel Coles in 1685. I have a ton of cousin buried here. Plaque is just inside the archway entrance. posted by: LowellHouseGuy location: New Jersey date approved: 3/7/2006 last visited: 3/9/2008 |
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