The Holly City of America

0 o~ ~ •o • ;...::-~ o THE HOLLY CITY OF AMERICA 1966+1969 '1'~"' de Uut«t Statu ol """"'"" MILLVILLE, NEW JERSEY CENTENNIAL ~1866-1966~ "7ne 7tct't'g ettg,, A te~timonial to the history, growth and progress of the City of Millville and its people Editor - MARTIN C. WEBER f Advertising Solicitation Chairmen JIM O'DONNELL - Rotary Historian - VIRGIL S. JOHNSON BUD VANAMAN - Kiwanis Adve~ising Manager - JAMES A. O'DONNELL Layout - MARJORIE BROADWATER Published by the Millville Centennial Corporation Millville City Commissioners Centennial Year of 1966 Saul J. Polkowitz William E. Shaw Paul R. Porreca Stephen Romanik Frank S. Hoffman Your City Com.missioners in this Centennial Year of 1966 Pledge a mighty stride toward another 100 Years of Success for our beloved City. PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, on February 26, 1866, the Governor of the State of New Jersey approved Chapter 54 of the Laws of 1866 and thereby created the City of Millville, and WHEREAS, from and after February 26, 1866, the City of Millville has continued to prosper and flourish and to provide significant contributions in all fields of endeavor, not only by and for the citizens and inhabitants of the City of Millville but for the county, state and nation of which this City forms a part, and WHEREAS, this date marks the One Hundredth Anniver sary of the approval of the statute creating this municipality, and WHEREAS, it is entirely fitting and proper that this occa sion should become a milestone in the progress of this City and that this event be a time of review of the achievements and attainments of the past and of a challenge to attain further and higher achievements in the future: NOW, THEREFORE. I, WILLIAM- E. SHAW, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF MILLVILLE. do proclaim February 26, 1966, as CENTENNIAL DAY, and the entire year 1966 as CENTEN NIAL YEAR and I do call upon all citizens of the City of Millville and upon all friends of the City of Millville within and without its borders to join together in celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary of this, our City and to rededicate themselves to the further advancement of this municipality. Done in the City of Millville, the 26th day of February, 1966, of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Ninety-first and of the City of Millville the One Hundredth. Mayor By the Mayor Clerk MILLVILLE CENTENNIAL CORPORATION DIRECTORS A. R.Marks Paul Marts A. C. Chambers John Fath Walter C. Garrison, Jr. Frank S. Hoffman Irving Mancus Virgil S. Johnson F. H.Neal, Jr. Michael N . Palermo John B. Sieck, Jr. Harold S. Vanaman Martin C. Weber Marvin M. Wodlinger Laurence Zygmunt A. R. MARKS, General Chairman Headquarters Chairman ........................................................ William McCarthy Treasurer .......................................................................................... Paul Marts Corresponding Secretaiy .................................................................. Jean Lane Recording Secretaiy .................................................................... Helen Gilbert Financial Advisory Committee Marvin Wodlinger John B. Sieck Larry Zygmunt William McCarthy Legal Advisor .. ................................................................ Marvin M. Wodlinger Insurance .............................................................................. George McCadden Bond Drive Chairman .................................................................... Claude Reed Participation Chairman ........................................................ Karl V. Kirchhoff Brothers of the Brush .............................................................. Michael Chiola Centennial Belles .................................................................... Zina S. Chiola Co-Chairman Men's Participation ................................................ Jim Bolton Co-Chairman Ladies' Participation ........................................ Carol Cranmer Caravans ........................................................ Robert Langley, Kathryn Downs Publicity .............................................................................................. Tom Dunn Press Virgil Johnson Joyce Vanaman Chalky Bennett Distribution ........................................................................................ Bill Smith Speakers ............................................................ William McCarthy, Tom Dunn Radio & T.V. .............................................................. Fred Wood, Jim Lewis Fireworks Chairman .................................................................... William Oliver Jr. Queen Contest Chairman .................................................. Jim O'Donnell Sr. Queen Contest Chairman ........................................................... Ethel Smith Queen's Float ........................................................................ Robert VonSuskil Jr. & Sr. Queen Contest Judges Chairman .................. Mrs. Robert K. Smyth Concessions .................................. George Stiles, Millville Fire Department Concerts ................ .............................................................. Michael N . Palermo Novelties ........................................................ Sylvia Smith, Jr. Women's Club Hospitality .................................................................. .............. Coralie Tozour Housing ........ .......................................................................... Bonnie Reynolds Transportation ........................................ ........................................ Lynn Garton Events Programming February 26th Arrangements ...... Frank Hoffman, Bud Vanaman Dinner ................................ AI Chambers, Chamber of Commerce Parades ................. Walt Garrison, Irv Mancus, Frank Neal, Jr. Special Events Sam Hodgdon James Steelman Ken Kull HEADQUARTERS STAFF Chairman, William McCarthy Secretaries, Jean Lane Colleen Huntley Store Personnel, Mary McCarthy Margaret Rush Mascot, Scott Lane MILL VILLE CENTENNIAL HAND GLASS BLOWING EXHIBIT SPONSORED BY THE GLASS BOTTLE BLOWERS ASSOCIATION LARGEST PORTABLE GLASS FURNACE IN THE WORLD JUNE 21st to 25th HIGH AND 2 P.M. BROAD STS. to 9 P.M. FREE DAILY SOUVENIRS Lorenzo Lober, Honorary Glass Blower of the Centennial, is shown with Louis Hund (now deceased) at the hand glass blowing exhibit 12 years ago at the Millville Streetarama BUY IT IN GLASS SUPPORT LOCAL INDUSTRY AND LABOR GLASS BOTTLE BLOWERS ASSOCIATION AFL - CIO Locals 7, 68, 93, 219, 250 and 257 where Millville now is to Learning's Mill where it ?°he history, growth and progress of the crossed the Menantico Creek. There was a saw mill at Learning's Mill as early City of Millville and its people as 1720. Its products were brought to a ships' landing place on the east bank of the Maurice River by a The Indian name of the principal river running road which roughly followed the present Smith Street. into Delaware Bay was Wahatquenack, and there has Possibly because of the nature of the cargo exported, been a tradition, which like many other errors, ~as the place came to be known as "Shingle Landing". passed into history, that its present name Maunce, In the summer of 1754 a road was built from was derived from the circumstance that a vessel called Berryman's Run, a branch of the Menantico, to the the Prince Maurice was burned at an early date by river at Shingle Landing. At the same time the first the Indians, at the reach since called, "No Man's bridge across the Maurice River was constructed. It Friend". Whatever may be the tru~? as to the _burn was a crude affair resting on log cribs and without ing of the vessel while she was repamng, according to a draw. West of the river the new road extended to one version of the story, it is much more probable the Beaver Dam, near where Carmel now is, where that the name was given to the river either b~ !Vley, or it joined the old road to Cohansey Bridge. After the DeVries, captains of Dutch vessels, who visited the bridge was built the place was called "Maurice River bay the former in 1623 anc1 the other in 1631. A map Bridge". The best estimates of local historians place of :'Nieuw Nederlandt" 'published at Amsterdam in this log bridge at the foot of the present Smith Street 1676, including New Jersey and Zuyd Revier, or South with "Shingle Landing" close by to the south. River as the Dutch called the Delaware, marks very On the west side of the river, about opposite the distin~tly the entrance of Maurice River into the bay latter spot, a Swede named Lucas Peterson built a and names it Mauritius Revier. The same name, evi house in 1755. Later this property was owned by dently the Dutch or Latin name for Maurice, Prince Alexander T. Moore, of Bridgeton, who leased it to of Orange, was given by some of the Dutch writers to Philip Souder, Jr., who kept a tavern there in 1793. the Hudson. When the county of Cape May was estab By 1796 the tavern keeper was Benoni Dare and in lished by the legislature. of West Je:5ey_ in 1692, they that year Mr. Moore built an addition to the structure bounded it on the east side of Moms River, so spelled for use by his tenant as a kitchen. The building stood in the printed law. In the act of 1694 it is called Prince until 1867 when it burned to the ground. • Morris River. When the county was set off from Salem, When the War for Independence began there was the law describing the township . bo'!lnds it on P~ce one farm in the area where Millville proper now stands. Maurice River; but the township 1s called

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