Carpenter's Landing, New Jersey

Carpenter's Landing was a mercantile settlement located at the head of sloop navigation on Mantua Creek in Mantua Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.[1]

In the late 1780s, Thomas Carpenter (1752-1847) moved to Carpenter's Landing and established a store and lumber business.[2] In the 1860s, it was described as "a place of considerable trade in lumber, cordwood, etc., and contains one tavern, two stores, 30 dwellings and a Methodist church".[3] The landing is said to have been named either for a man named Carpenter who built boats at the site during its mercantile boom days,[4] or Edward Carpenter (son of Thomas Carpenter and descendant of Samuel Carpenter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) who owned the Heston & Carpenter Glass Works at nearby Glassboro, New Jersey in 1786[5][6] in partnership with Col. Thomas Heston, his wife's nephew.[7]

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References

  1. Henry Charlton Beck: More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., 1963, pp. 299-301.
  2. http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/c/Carpenter0115.html
  3. Beck, p. 299.
  4. Beck, p. 300.
  5. Charles S. Boyer: Old Inns and Taverns in West Jersey, Camden County Historical Society, Camden, N.J., 1962, pp. 158-159.
  6. Borough of Glassboro: History - The Past, http://www.glassboroonline.com/history_glassboro.html, retrieved August 1, 2010.
  7. Arthur Adams: "Memoirs of the Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society" in The Northeast Historic and Genealogical Register, Vol. CVII, Whole Number 425, January 1953, p. 70.

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Coordinates: 39°47′20″N 75°09′07″W / 39.789°N 75.152°W / 39.789; -75.152


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