Salem

The most ornate of early glazed brick patterns decorate the west wall of this house, built in 1754 by John Dickinson.

Four miles to the south is Finn's Point National Cemetery where are buried 2,436 Confederate soldiers who died at Fort Delaware while...

Not far from here on the New Hersey side of the Delaware River, in 1643, the Swedes erected an earthwork fort with three angles, on order...

Site of first English settlement in New Jersey, 1641, soon destroyed by the Dutch.

Alloway, NJ

Here Caspar Wistar founded an important industry by making the first south Jersey glass in 1739.

Four miles south at Hancock Bridge is the house where Simcoe's Tories massacred sleeping patriots, March 21, 1778.

Four miles south, during the night of March 21, 1778, a party of Tory Rangers under Major Simcoe surprised and massacred about thirty...

Formally organized in 1741, though services had been held as early as 1720. The old church was built in 1767.

Alloway, NJ

Early settled by the Swedes, but received its name from William Penn who owned a large part of the land.

Founded in 1741, first Presbyterian Church in present Salem County.

Hancock Bridge Meeting House, built 1756, on land deeded to the Friends by William Hancock, who was later slain by the British.

Alloway, NJ

March 18, 1778, Captain William Smith attacked British troops under Major J. Graves Simcoe.

Simcoe's Tory Rangers lured capt. Smith's Militia over the bridge, Mar. 18, 1778, and routed them.

Built in 1808 to replace a log structure built in 1717 by Swedish Luterans. The church became Episcopalian in 1794.

Salem, NJ

Most famous New Jersey tree stands in cemetery.

Here, Caspar Wistar began the manufacture of glass in 1739. His son Richard carried on the business till the Revolution made it...

Woodstown from Camden, NJ

March, 1778, the British troops and foraging parties proceeding to Salem, divided at the Seven Stars Tavern, and one regiment marched...