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Newsletter Volume 6 Issue 3 March 2008 Next Meeting 7:30 p.m. Wenonah Historical Society Friday March 14, 2008 Newsletter Volume 6 Issue 3 March 2008 Message From can enjoy and it will certainly provide interpretation and analysis. This will Vice President a great opportunity to work with the be the “Show and Tell” part of the Barbara Capelli Wenonah Elementary School and meeting. additional volunteers to see that this Dear Members; The History of Wenonah day will be another great reflection on This Friday’s meeting is sure to be by Marjorie K. Lentz the pride we all share about our town! a crowd pleaser and we are expecting During the mid-1970’s the a super crowd at that! So, come early Historical Fact Wenonah Historical Society, wanting and make sure to get your seat! Also Our neighbor to the south, Sewell, to do something for the Bicentennial be sure to tell your friends and NJ was named after William Sewell, a decided a book about the origins of neighbors…bring the kids! General in the Civil War and Wenonah would be an excellent way Another matter of importance, the President of the West Jersey Railroad. of both participating in the event, and Historical Society is taking a He was substantially involved in the creating a fund-raiser for the Society. significant role in the creation of a creation of Wenonah. Marjorie Lentz volunteered to author Founder’s Day in Wenonah Park on such a book. It was completed and June 5th. We are looking for WHS OFFICERS 2008 published in 1976. She did a fantastic volunteers and anyone interested in President Louis McCall job, the project was a success, the speaking about the history of entire printing sold out and there are Wenonah! Vice Pres. Barbara Capelli few, if any copies available for the Jennie McQuaide and Jack Secretary Jo Dominy public. Sheppard are assisting Marjorie Lentz Treasurer Carol Wiltsee Marjorie has graciously agreed to on an updated version of Marjorie’s Trustee Betty MacLeod allow parts of her book to be used in history book “Wenonah”. The original subsequent WHS newsletters. edition was published in 1976 and has Trustee Vicki McCall Accordingly, this and future long since been out of print. When Meetings are held the second issues will contain parts, or even available it is sure to be a fun and Friday of the month at the chapters of her book. Save them up informative reading experience. Community Center except June, July and August and you will eventually have your We have so much to be thankful own copy of the original “Wenonah” for here in Wenonah and so many by Marjorie K. Lentz. people that work very hard to preserve March Meeting Program For those who want a “whole” what Wenonah’s founders started. Wenonah resident Larry Ledrich book, an updated version is currently Wenonah is full of great will display his Native American being written, available late 2008. volunteers, and many of those Indian artifacts collection. The volunteers are part of our Wenonah collection originated in a site in Historical Fact Historical Society. How wonderful it Harrison Township. He will be joined 4/17/1883 Dr. George Bailey, on is to know that so many of you have by professional archaeologist Jack behalf of the Mantua Land and been instrumental in keeping our town Cresson. Jack has spent a lifetime Improvement Company presented to the reason why people want to live studying native habitats and will share the Borough two “squares” of land for here and we continue to flourish by his knowledge and expertise on the our Park. It was accepted by the your examples. subject. If you have found something Borough and the Deed received and Founder’s Day should be a great unique or unusual while digging in acknowledged September 11, 1883. family experience that the whole town your garden or yard bring it for Jack’s 1 “JUST A RAILROAD STATION” December 1870 Excerpts from the book “Wenonah” by Marjorie K. Lentz The new railroad station along the west side of Whitney augmented the report by noting that the the tracks of the West Jersey Railroad stood land, consisting of 572 acres, could be purchased incongruous among the fields that surrounded it. for $69,575. The group unanimously agreed and in Farmers had eyed the station with interest because a few minutes, $29,500 was subscribed. they anticipated it would be a convenience in It was just a railroad station but it witnessed the transporting their sweet potatoes to the beginnings of a town and the town, still unnamed, Philadelphia markets. However, as the newspaper, already had a history. The Constitution stated, the station looked far "too elegant for sweet potatoes because it boasted of Early maps reveal small campsites of the "two compartments, one for the sale of tickets and Unalachtigo Indians of the Lenni Lenape Tribe joined by a comfortable passenger saloon." spotted along the banks of the Mantua Creek and the Chestnut Branch that flows into it. In the 1600's Heading toward the station on December 19, cartographers named the streams for the Indians 1870 was a special train which left Camden, New Jersey, just before noon. The train followed the who lived by them, and it is assumed that the West Jersey Railroad tracks past Gloucester, past Mantua Creek was named for the Manteses, a Westville and at Woodbury took the Y that made a small band of Indians who had campsites along beeline to the station known as the New Mantua these waterways. The trails that border Mantua Station. The passengers who detrained that day Creek and Break Back Run are considered to be were not in the least interested in transporting Indian trails and it is along these waterways that sweet potatoes, but they were interested in arrowheads, net sinkers, stone hammers and axes converting the sweet potato patches into building have been found. Potsherds of the Woodland lots and in transporting commuters to a "new Period have been discovered and sufficient suburban town." fragments at one site have made possible the From the rise of the land at the New Mantua reconstruction of pottery revealing a skillful design Station the visitors had a sweeping view of the of inverted Vs. fields now sliced by the railroad tracks. They saw Some of the land bordering the Indian trails was Henisey's Landing Road which led to the busy owned by Nathaniel Chew who in 1712 recorded wharves a-long the Mantua Creek. Within sight of in Gloucester County's earmark book the marks of the station they looked across to the dwelling of the his pigs, "a slitt in each ear and half penny on each Stone Farm House already 97 years old. A short side." One of his sons, Jeffrey Chew, inherited a distance away were meandering lanes that led to a part of the acreage and to his holdings purchased few other farmhouses and to the west was the 125 acres from Samuel Moffett. Moffett either abandoned road bed of the railroad tracks that retained or later secured a five-acre plot from the previously surmounted a thirty-two foot high farm on which in 1773 he built a dwelling which trestle over the Mantua Creek leading to the old Mantua Station. traditionally was a stage line stop on the route from Camden to Cape May. The house was strategically The stop at the station was brief, but while the located on the Old Ford Road which led to the passengers were there they envisioned how the edge of Chew's farm to the only place below land could be leveled, the country lanes erased and Berkeley, now Mount Royal, that stage lines could the existing farm houses squared and placed properly on straight streets. After "a site visitation cross the Mantua Creek. During the ownership of the Gentlemen met in the passenger saloon of the Robert Sparks it is recorded that "the militia met in New Mantua Depot" at 1:15 p. m. when Samuel A. a field in 1777 to practice, hold meetings and elect Whitney read a proposal for forming a "Real Estate officers at the stone-house." Deeds note that the and Improvement Company to operate at the New five-acre plot was later joined to the farm and it Mantua Station of the West Jersey Railroad." was known as the Stone House Farm. 2 Traditional accounts relate that a Revolutionary William F. Allen, resident engineer of the West War skirmish occurred at the intersection of Old Jersey Railroad and son-in-law of the president of Ford Road and Bark Bridge Road. the railroad, made contact with the seven On both sides of Glassboro Road was the landowners whose land was adjacent to the tracks. "plantation" of Benjamin Clark. The story has been Each one agreed to sell his land. The largest told that while the British camped along the landowner was Isaac C. Stevenson who owned Monongahela Trail in 1777 they seized Clark's about 244 acres extending from the New Mantua team of horses and a load of wheat he was driving Station northward to Glassboro Road and south to to Valley Forge for General Washington’s Army. Bark Bridge Road. Charles Starn owned 163 acres However, that night Clark crept into the British in the area of the railroad station reaching camp and retrieved his horses hiding them on an westward toward the Mantua Creek. The Peter Kier island in the Mantua Creek. Also that same winter Stone House Farm extended southward to the General Anthony Wayne foraged for supplies for Mantua Creek.
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