0 m. (75 alt., 180 pop.), which is chiefly a collection of large billboards at a traffic circle, advertising ferries of the Delaware River.

US 322 travels directly through the heart of the flat pine and bog country for mile after mile with no towns and few curves.

At 4.2 m., at a cloverleaf intersection, is the junction with State 50 (see Tour 34).

This section of the road, part of Black Horse Pike, carried passengers and freight between Philadelphia and the coast before railways were built. At 8.9 m. is the junction with a graveled road.

Right on this road to the SITE OF THE WEYMOUTH IRON WORKS, 0.5 m., and of a paper mill erected later on the same spot. Founded in 1800, the Weymouth furnace produced cannonballs, stove parts, and water pipes, employing about 200 workers. When the works burned during the Civil War they were replaced by a Manila-paper mill, also destroyed by fire. There remain gaunt walls 2 feet thick, with trees growing inside and out of the enclosure; piles of bog-iron ore and slag, and a tall, square brick chimney. Arches in the foundation span channels through which diverted waters of the Great Egg Harbor River still run. Across the river (R) are remnants of dams, bulkheads, and ditches, used to harness the stream. Sixty-two people still live here, facing the ruined factory buildings.

Northwest of this junction the deep forest crowds close to US 322. A few isolated summer cabins are among the trees.

At 25.1 m. State 42 (see Tour 31), which is united with US 322 between McKee City and this point, branches (R) from US 322.

WILLIAMSTOWN, 25.6 m. (160 alt., 1,536 pop.), has a compact and active business area around the TOWN HALL (L), in the center of the community. Once a glass-making center, the town now depends largely on two canneries, which preserve fruit and vegetables.

Williamstown has gradually lived down its early name of Squankum (Indian, place of the evil god). The name was brought here in 1772 from Squankum, Monmouth County, by Deacon Israel Williams; 70 years later the town was named for the deacon himself. One historian recalls that in 1800 there were but four or five houses at Williamstown "within sound of the conch." This sea shell was brought to New Jersey in large quantities aboard sailing vessels trading with the West Indies and was used ashore as a dinner horn. At sea it served as a foghorn.

Macadam replaces concrete at the western end of Williamstown. The land takes on the appearance of a huge checkerboard, with large square fields of truck crops alternating with apple orchards.

GLASSBORO, 32 m. (145 alt., 4,799 pop.), is a business-like farm center displaying well-kept streets, neat one-family dwellings, and a prosperous-looking business center with bright store fronts. Although it owes its name to the once extensive glassworks here, that industry has com- pletely vanished.

Development of fruit and poultry farms has led Glassboro to serve the region with a peach-basket factory, a dress factory, cold storage, and fruit and vegetable auctions held by the Gloucester County Agricultural Cooperative Association. In 1936 this market's sales reached $485,000. A plant on Delsea Dr. produces 2,000,000 gallons of apple cider annually, much of which becomes vinegar.

Glassboro dates back to 1775 when a German widow, Catherine Stanger, and her seven sons built a glass factory here. The cornerstone of the first plant is visible under the dining room of a building at 124 State St. Greensand and silica deposits boomed the glass industry, which reached its peak around 1840 when a bottle famous in the 1840 Presidential campaign was made here. Shaped like a log cabin, the flask was symbolic of candidate William Henry Harrison's supposed home. The bottles were filled by a Philadelphia distiller, E. C. Booz; soon known as "Booz bottles," they widely popularized the word "booze" or "booze," which as early as 1812 had been a potent noun in the vocabulary of Parson Weems, American evangelist.

With the adoption of modern machinery in the glass industry, the Gloucester factories succumbed to competition from other sections where a purer grade of glass sand was available.

On the highway (L) at 32.8 m. are the buildings of the GLASSBORO STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, one of six normal schools maintained by the State. The group of three large Georgian Colonial style buildings in red brick and white stone occupies a 55-acre tract. Part of the land produces vegetables for the 400 or more students.

At Glassboro is the junction with State 47 (see Tour 33).

Westward along US 322 chicken farms replace the orchards, which reappear farther west on the low, rolling hills.

RICHWOOD, 35.7 m. (150 alt., 250 pop.), has a few modern homes and weathered houses. Built at the junction of five roads, the village was once known as Five Points.

MULLICA HILL, 38.8 m. (80 alt., 600 pop.) (see Tour 28), is at the junction with State 45 (see Tour 28).

Northwest of Mullica Hill the highway turns sharply R., then L., along low hills that slope down to Raccoon Creek (L), which twists through tomato-growing country, alive with activity during August and September, when the big crop is shipped by trucks to canneries. Gloucester County, through which the highway runs, produces 2,000,000 bushels of tomatoes annually, the third largest tomato crop from any county in the United States.

At 43.1 m. is the junction with old King's Highway, built in 1681 by order of the Provincial Legislature of West New Jersey.

Left on this road is SWEDESBORO, 1.2 m. (10 alt., 2,213 pop.), a large shipping station for farm produce. The main highway presents many contrasts. On it are important Colonial structures, poultry-dressing plants, and the offices of produc shippers. One of the oldest Swedish settlements in the State, Swedesboro was known first as Raccoon. Until the Revolution it was the Swedish center of the region and an important point on the stage line between Salem and Camden. In 1778 the British and Tories from Billingsport burned the schoolhouse and other buildings.

TRINITY CHURCH, standing on a bluff at the intersection of the King's Highway and Raccoon Creek, and shaded by tall maple, buttonwood, and cedar trees, is a handsome Colonial structure. The graceful white spire, surmounted by a shining ball and vane, towers far above the ivy-covered brick walls with large Gothic windows. The church has recessed doors, fronted by heavily capped columns. Above the entrance, below the sloping eaves of the gabled roof, a circular slab set in the wall bears the simple inscription, "5784." Built in that year by the Swedish Lutheran congregation, Old Trinity was taken over by the Episcopalians five years later, upon the passing of the Swedish mission. The church still uses a silver communion service bought by the Swedish congregation in 1730 for £7.

The road descends into the bottom lands and turns sharply northward.

At 47.9 m., at the northern end of Bridgeport, is the junction with US 130 (see Tour 19). US 322 turns L. here and is united with US 130 through the village, for 0.7 miles.

BRIDGEPORT, 48.3 m. (20 alt., 850 pop.) (see Tour 19).

At 48.3 m. US 322 turns R., separating from US 530 (see Tour 19).

A stretch of concrete highway leads through a marsh, with dense growths of reeds, cattails, and coarse, sun-dried brown grass.