Burlington Pharmacy - Burlington, NJ
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N 40° 04.733 W 074° 51.518
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Located at 301 High Street in historic Burlington, this is the oldest pharmacy in continuous operation in New Jersey.
Waymark Code: WM67NB
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 04/18/2009
Views: 4
This historic pharmacy was built on the corner of High and East Union Streets in Burlington in 1731. The date is proudly incoporated into the side of the building along East Union Street.
History reads that this building, owned by Quaker William J. Allinson, an ardent abolitionist, was a center of anti-slavery activity. Oral tradition states that Allinson hid slaves in tunnels under the pharmacy as part of the Underground Railroad. Slavery was denounced from the pharmacy doorsteps by poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
Address:
301 High St
Burlington, NJ USA
08016
Web site: [Web Link]
Open to the public?: Public
Name of organization who placed the marker: Burlington County Histroical Society
Site Details: Not listed
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