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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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