Cumberland

Court house bell rang as news of "Declaration" rached here. Cast in Massachusetts, 1765.

Bridgeton, NJ

Built by Presbyterians in 1792, has been cited by architects as an outstanding example of good Colonial design.

Centre Grove, NJ

About 1785, Eli Budd built a forge for manufacturing iron on the Manumuskin.

Eli Budd's forge, 1785; furnace about 1810.

Home of Philip Vickers Fithian, a patriot army chaplain who died in 1776.

Greenwich, NJ

Built in 1730 by Nicholas Gibbon, maritime merchant whose ships carried most of the colonial trade of this port.

Bridgeton's first glass factory, begun in 1837 by Stratton, Buck & Co. later Cohansey Glass Company.

Othello, NJ

Endowed as free school for poor children by Zachariah Barrow.

Millville, NJ

The River was named by the Dutch for Maurice, Brince of Orange.

Named by the Dutch for Maurice, Prince of Orange.

Cumberland Nail and Iron Company, makers of mails and pipe, where here from 1815 to the 1890s. Land became a city park, 1901.

Bridgeton from Salem, NJ

November 29, 1775, recruits were organized here.

Millville, NJ

Founded by James Lee in 1806.

Greenwich, NJ

Built 1728 by Jacob Ware.

In August, 1781, a party of Tories attacked a shallop in Maurice River opposite Port Norris.

A small 1880 truck farm of the Seabrook family. Became world's driveway of the Seabrook Schools, 44 feet from edge of paved Cumberland...

A delicacy of the Indians, the first annual tourists to the shore. This river is now the center of the Jersey Oyster Industry.

Capt. James Higgin's militia on board a sloop in river, beat off a Tory attack, Aug., 1781.

Millville, NJ

January 31, 1783, the crew from the armed boat "blacksnake", commanded by the Tory, Capt. Andrew Gillis, raided this section.

Centre Grove, NJ

Local militia under Capt. William Low captured privateer "Blacksnake" and crew near Autuxit on January 31, 1783.

Built in 1795 by Richard Wood, merchant. A son.