tench francis property

[stizkidz]

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/...r&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co=hh&st=gallery&sg=true

Some non-Pines related forgotten places but I hope some of you will find this interesting.
Looks like it was demolished in the 1940s. What a beautiful house and estate.

Sadly, it is a municipal/solar farm complex now...

Interesting to see how the flow of the creek was redirected over time, if you look at historic aerials.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/...r&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co=hh&st=gallery&sg=true

An interesting note: A similar GW "Long Live The President" button to the one in my avatar was found on this property in 1964:

http://kirkmitchell.tripod.com/CobbGW/Stacks/bw1349.html

 

[Jerseyman]

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/...r&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co=hh&st=gallery&sg=true

Some non-Pines related forgotten places but I hope some of you will find this interesting.
Looks like it was demolished in the 1940s. What a beautiful house and estate.

Sadly, it is a municipal/solar farm complex now...

Interesting to see how the flow of the creek was redirected over time, if you look at historic aerials.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/...r&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co=hh&st=gallery&sg=true

An interesting note: A similar GW "Long Live The President" button to the one in my avatar was found on this property in 1964:

http://kirkmitchell.tripod.com/CobbGW/Stacks/bw1349.html

Tench Francis owned Paradise Farm, once located on Paradise Lane in West Deptford Township, Gloucester County. If you look closely at the photographs of the stone barn, you will notice some narrow vertical slits in the stonework, placed there for ventilation. A number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century antiquarians thought the slits were gun ports and immediately labeled Paradise Farm as the site of the Dutch Fort Nassau, especially after one of these guys spotted a small blue flower growing that he identified as a species of Dutch origin. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth as all surviving documentary records strongly indicate that the Dutch constructed Fort Nassau in 1626 (not 1623 as is often stated) at the south end of present-day Gloucester City on a small prominence that once existed there. This narrow point of land provided the fort’s inhabitants to have an unobstructed view of Big and Little Timber Creek, the mouth of the Schuylkill River, and up and down the Delaware River—a clear strategic military advantage in an unfamiliar area where hostile forces could arrive by any of these waterways.

Best regards,
Jerseyman

 

[stizkidz]

It is indicated on an old map as "Paradise". Curiously, there is an indication of a Graveyard not too far from there. Looks like it was possibly where I-295 runs presently?

 

[Jerseyman]

It is indicated on an old map as "Paradise". Curiously, there is an indication of a Graveyard not too far from there. Looks like it was possibly where I-295 runs presently?

This would be the Old Stephens Burial Ground. It is still there, located between Crown Point Road and I-295 in a small wooded area at the end of an old lane leading off Crown Point Road. The burying ground contains 25-30 graves, but only about 11 of them have markers that can be read. The oldest one is Isaac Stephens, born 1749 and died 1-13-1811. The newest stone is for George Herrig, born 1868 and died 1935.

Best regards,
Jerseyman