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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEC2_patterned-brick-houses_Lower-Alloways-Creek-NJ.html
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 v…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEBZ_swedish-cabin_Lower-Alloways-Creek-NJ.html
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 seventeenth-ce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAY_welcome-to-fort-mott_Pennsville-Township-NJ.html
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 earlier…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAX_friends-burial-ground_Salem-NJ.html
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, by the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAV_finns-point-national-cemetery_Pennsville-Township-NJ.html
This cemetery containsthe graves of 2,436 Confederatesoldiers who died while pisonersof war at Fort Delaware.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAU_union-monument_Pennsville-Township-NJ.html
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.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAT_confederate-monument_Pennsville-Township-NJ.html
Erectedby theUnited Statesto mark the burial placeof2436 Confederate soldierswho died at Fort Delawarewhile prisoners of warand whose graves cannotnow be individually identified.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAP_finns-point-national-cemetery_Pennsville-Township-NJ.html
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 prisoners…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9I_salem-oak-tree_Salem-NJ.html
Most famous New Jerseytree stands in cemetery.By tradition, John Fenwickmade his treaty with theIndians in its shade, 1675.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9H_old-bridges-at-this-location_Salem-NJ.html
Old Bridges at this LocationThe 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 A…
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