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Atsion Mansion Evening Tours Return this April! If you missed the evening tours in January, April is your month to see the Atsion Mansion at sunset!

These are incredible photos, thank you! The mansion is open again this month for evening tours, every Friday at 6pm and 7pm!

Digging through Census Records and Richards Family papers, I am able to share 5 names and connect them to serving under the Richards Family while in residence at the Atsion Mansion. 1840 Federal Census William Nelson (30) Colored Margaret Okie (35) Colored Catharine Green (20) Benjamin Taylor...

This would actually be a good example of what the Atsion Mansion garden would have looked like in the 1830s. When I went up to research the Samuel Richards papers, I learned that Richards hired a gardener to tend to his Philadelphia garden and Atsion garden.

While researching more on the Raleigh Family and their era at Atsion, I came across a newspaper article from October 23, 1879 that reports:

Might be a little late to the conversation haha, but it appears this photo shows the wooden frame building off to the left to be the old icehouse for the Mansion and General Store. The overgrowth in front of the mansion are what remains of the English Garden from the Richards Era. The garden...

Joseph Wharton did lol

I think this map is quite well put together. Have you thought of adding in some of the paper mills such as Harrisville or Pleasant Mills? Paper was another prominent industry in the Pinelands after the collapse of the iron industry.

He has been found and is safe.

I suppose the engine would look somewhat similar to this?

Thank you Jerseyman! I suppose it's time to take a trip up to Trenton.

While doing research on W.W Fleming and Atsion, I came across a paragraph from "The Atlantic City High Speed Line" dated from November 1929. "The first train to run from Camden to Atlantic City was drawn by the engine "Atsion" and made the first trip on July 4, 1854. At that time there were...

As I was looking over the 1876 Map of Atsion, I noticed a lone building off to the east. Any idea on what this building might have been?