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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
Right on this road through cedar swamplands to GLOUCESTER LAKE (R),
0.6 miles, which once supplied power to Gloucester Furnace.
Left at Gloucester Lake to (R) the SITE OF GLOUCESTER FURNACE, 1.6 miles, on
Landing Creek. The remains of a darn and a pile of slag nearby are the only signs
of the hog-iron furnace built in 1813 by John Richards, who was trained at Batsto
Furnace under his uncle, Col. William Richards, one of Washington's officers. The
old village, a stop on the Philadelphia stage route, has disappeared.
Green Bank Rd. turns L. through cut-over woodland.
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