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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
At 12.1 miles, at a junction, is PLEASANT MILLS (10 alt.). The name
of the scarcely distinguishable village, once Sweetwater, was changed in
1821 when William Lippincott of Philadelphia built the Pleasant Mills,
a cotton textile factory.
The METHODIST CHURCH (R) is a plain wooden rectangular structure.
built in 1808 on the site of Clark's Log Meeting House, which was erected
in 1758 by Capt. Elijah Clark. Revolutionary soldiers and seamen are
buried in the churchyard, with many of their graves marked by the iron
tombstones peculiar to South Jersey. One of these soldiers, Joseph Johnson, often asserted that he had fired the first shot at Bunker Hill.
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