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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
The road winds through lowlands where once the waters of prehistoric
Pensauken Sound flowed. Huge boulders, washed down from the northern
part of the State in prehistoric times, make many of the fields fit only for
grazing.
MARSHALL'S CORNER, 40.4 miles, is only a gasoline station at an
intersection with a county road. The tiny village that once stood here was
named for William Marshall, whose son, James Marshall, discovered gold
in California (see Tour 4).
At 41.6 miles is the junction with a macadam road.
Left on this road is PENNINGTON, 0. mile (210 alt., 1,335 pop.), a delightful
old country village with a block or so of small stores and an unused trolley track
on the main street. The town dates from 1697 when Johannes Lawrenson purchased
the land. At first the village was called Queenstown, in honor of Queen Anne, but
because of its insignificance people began to refer to it derisively as Penny Town.
About 1747 it became permanently known as Pennington.
PENNINGTON SEMINARY, W. Delaware Ave. opp. Green Ave., is a leading boys'
school founded in 1843. The school is housed in a four-story building of red brick
with white wooden pilasters and a mansard roof.
State 30 is level across the tableland near the Delaware River. Southward rise the smokestacks and water towers of Trenton's factories.
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