Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1
Introduction

Chapter 2
Urban Development

Chapter 3
Maritime Activity

Chapter 4
Agriculture

Chapter 5
Industry

Chapter 6
Transportation

Chapter 7
Education

Chapter 8
Religion

Chapter 9
Social/Cultural

Chapter 10
Recommendations

Appendix 1
Patterned Brick Houses

Appendix 2
Stack Houses

Appendix 3
Existing Documentation

Bibliography

SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY and the DELAWARE BAY Historic Themes and Resources within the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route

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²Stansfield, 123-25.

³Thomas J. Wertenbaker, The Founding of American Civilization, The Middle Colonies (New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1963), 236.

⁴Noble, 45.

⁵Wertenbaker, 239.

⁶David Steven Cohen, The Folklore and Folklife of New Jersey (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1983), 134.

⁷Noble, Barns and Farm Structures 16.

⁸Noble, 57.

⁹Noble, 3.

¹⁰Carl Woodward, Development of Agriculture in New Jersey, 1640-1880 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1927), 46.

¹¹Woodward, 46-48.

¹²Sickler, 198.

¹³Harry B. Weiss and Grace M. Weiss, Early Sports and Pastimes in New Jersey (Trenton: Past Times Press, 1960), 12.

¹⁴Mulford, 79, 152, 173.

¹⁵Woodward, 52-61.

¹⁶Sickler, 196-99.

¹⁷Woodward, 79, 102.

¹⁸Woodward, 103, 124-25.

¹⁹Woodward, 150-65.

²⁰Harry B. and Grace M. Weiss, Some Early Industries of New Jersey (Trenton: New Jersey Agricultural Society, 1965), 50-51.

²¹Weiss and Weiss, Early Industries, 50-54.

²²Joyce van vorst, "Cedar Swamp Creek Meadow Co.," Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy 9 (1989), n.p.

²³George Abbott to the Director of the Census, 1920. Abbott Family Papers.

²⁴Edward Abbott Sr., "History of Abbott's Dairy," Salem County Historical Society Newsletter 31 (September 1986), 5-7; Diane Miller, "Roots: He Watched His Family Business Grow," Today's Sunbeam (15 August 1984), 1.

²⁵These men formed meadow companies in which they shared the expense of keeping dikes and sluices in good worklng conditions. Perhaps, then, they shared the profit. They were probably not as commercially oriented as the Hackensack Meadow Company, but rather akin to the Abbott Meadow and Cedar Swamp Creek companies.

²⁶Weiss and Weiss, Early Industries 57-58.

²⁷Weiss and Weiss, Early Industries 65.

²⁸First Annual Report of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture (Trenton: The State Gazette, 1874), 47.

²⁹Howard A. Turner, Systems of Renting Truck Farms in South-Western New Jersey USDA Bulletin No. 411 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1916), 2-3.

³⁰Josiah C. Folsom, Truck-Farm Labor in New Jersey USDA Bulletin no. 1285 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1922), 9-11.

³¹Folsom, 10, 15.

³²Folsom, 14-18.

³³Folsom, 33-35.; U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau, Work of Children on Truck and Small-Fruit Farms in Southern New Jersey (Washington, DC: GPO, 1924), 53-56.

³⁴Folsom, 34-35.

³⁵Richard A. Hogarty, New Jersey Farmers and the Migrant Housing Rules (Syracuse: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1966), 2-15.

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