The History of Weymouth Township 

by Stephen Csere

Edited by Kathleen Csere Karr

Copyright 1994 by Stephen Csere

All Rights Reserved


Colonial Days    Recent History, Part One   Recent History, Part Two  Appendices, Author Information

Edited by Kathleen Csere Karr

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Colonial Days

1: Formation of the Township 

2: First Inhabitants: the Lenni Lenape Indians 

3: The Revolutionary War: 1775-1783 

4: The First Schools 

5: First Churches 

6: Charcoal Industry and Tar Kilns 

7: Early Shipbuilding 

8: Iron Furnaces 

Weymouth Furnace 

Aetna (Etna) Furnace 

Walkers's Forge 

9: Lumbering 

10: Early Glass Industry 

11: Slave Labor in New Jersey 

12: Life Span, from Diaries 

13: The Jersey Devil 

Recent History, Part One

14: Land Development by Risley and Bourgeois 

Early Taxes 

15: Early Inhabitants and the Railroad 

16: The Railroad Station 

17: Early Schooling/Local School System Beginnings 

Early School Board Actions 

The Dorothy School Bell 

Teachers at the Dorothy School 

High School 

The Dorothy School Strike 

The Dorothy Private School 

The Belcoville School 

Recent History, Part Two

18: Churches 

Holy Nativity Episcopal Church 

St. Bernard's Catholic Church 

Everybody's Mission Church 

19: Hotels 

Marsalee Hotel 

Milmay Hotel 

Dorothy Hotel (J. Gebert) 

Dorothy Hotel (Ferdinand Eckel) 

20: Bars 

Happy's 

Clem's 

21: Local Grocery and Drygoods Stores 

Ellison's 

Radley's 

Flanagan's 

Frick's 

Burkman's 

Brown's 

Flanagan's 

Burkitt's 

Malloy's 

Bakeries 

22: Local Industries 

Lumbering 

The Clay Pit 

Sawmills 

Cranberry Bogs 

Brown's Gravel Hole (and Tuckahoe Road) 

The Poultry Business 

Poultry Feed Mills 

Farmers Cooperative Association of Vineland 

23: Politics 

The Tax Collector 

Township Fire Wardens 

Road Overseer 

24: The Dorothy Fire Company 

25: The Conception of Belcoville 

The Belcoville Volunteer Fire Company 

26: Boy Scout Troop #62 

27: Interesting Odds and Ends 

 

Appendices, Author Information

 

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