Gloucester County New Jersey is a picturesque area with many historic homes and pastoral scenes.

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Death of the Fox Inn, Mount Royal NJ. The inn was built around 1727.
It got its name because the hunters of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club
(1766 to 1818) often gathered at the inn after the chase.
This was the first such hunt club in America. The first owner was
Christopher Taylor. During the American Revolution it was used for
recruiting and as a military headquarters.

AURA, N.J. - photograph of Aura Methodist Church (located on Aura-Willowgrove Road & Route 610, right in the center of town. Looking through the tree limbs at the top you can see the steeple. My thanks to the webmaster of elktownship.com for identifying the photograph).

BILLINGSPORT, N.J.
- Flickr photographs of Billingsport

DEPTFORD, N.J.
- Old Deptford Strangers Burial Ground
- Cattell Family Burial Ground

Photographs of East Greenwich NJ - from EAST GREENWICH historian's site - includes photographs of historic homes in that township.

GLASSBORO, N.J.
Photographs of Heritage Glass Museum and Hollybush Mansion,
Flickr Photographs of Glassboro NJ

GREENWICH TOWNSHIP N.J. AREA (Gloucester County -- there is a different Greenwich Township in Cumberland County). Note Gibbstown is part of Greenwich Township
- Clonmell Methodist Church
- Broad Street School, Gibbstown N.J. [Greenwich Township School System]
- Old Greenwich Township Municipal Building
- C.A. Nothnagle Log House

NATIONAL PARK, NJ (new July 2005) -
The Red Bank Battlefield Park & James and Ann Whitall House -
Flickr photographs of National Park NJ

PAULSBORO:
- Several photographs including Tinicum Lighthouse (new September 2005)
- Paulsboro postcards (old) - Gill Memorial Library, Paulsboro NJ
- Paulsboro Library (Gill Memorial Library) - new June 2006
- Tombstones and Inscriptions, St. Paul's Church
- Flickr photographs of Paulsboro NJ

PITMAN:
Photographs of Pitman NJ
Photographs of Pitman Grove (on Flickr)
Alcyon Park & Lake (old photographs)
History of Alcyon Park Cleanup

SWEDESBORO - WOOLWICH
Photographs of Trinity Episcopal "Old Swedes" Church,
the Mortenson-VanLeer (Shorn) Log Cabin
and other interesting buildings in SWEDESBORO N.J.
- Old Swedes Inn aka The Ford Hotel (new)
- Moravian Church (new)

Adams Meeting House, aka "Old Stone Church" near Swedesboro/Woolwich NJ - HISTORY & CURRENT PHOTOS

WENONAH
Brief History & Photographs
Additional Photographs

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Photographs/Postcards from the "West Jersey History Project"
includes photos of:
Clayton | Billingsport | Gibbstown | Glassboro | Harrisonville | Malaga | Mickleton
Mullica Hill | Pitman Grove | Paulsboro
Paulsboro | Swedesboro | Woodbury
Woodbury
Woodbury | Westville | Williamstown

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Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record - see blueprints of historic homes in Gloucester County, and the
original documents used to apply for historic designation; also other related photographs in Gloucester County NJ [and other sources]

After waiting two years [January 2007] from my first request, the official Gloucester County (Freeholder) web site still has not successfully updated their historic place section. (The descriptions are old and will get you lost rather than locating the place, the links are dead, and the nice old photographs are still missing). I'm leaving the place names on the list below, and if I get a chance I'll go out and take photographs myself. Here is the link to their OLD site [archive]

Adams Methodist Episcopal Church, Road to Hendrickson's Mill, Swedesboro vicinity, Gloucester County, NJ
Barnsboro Inn, Sewell NJ | Official web site
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich NJ
Benjamin Clark House, Deptford NJ - On the east side of the Woodbury-Glassboro Road, Deptford Township. The west section of this old brick home is the oldest, having been built in the late 18th century. The east section has a stone insert, dated "1804. Because of Benjamin Clark's patriotic activities during the Revolutionary War, his home was raided several times by the British. Gloucester County College.
Bodo Otto House (East Greenwich NJ web site)
Candor Hall-John Ladd House, W. Deptford, NJ
Thomas Carpenter House, Main & Martel Sts., Mantua
Jesse Chew House, Mantua NJ | Description
Death of the Fox Inn (East Greenwich web site)
"Eighty Acres" in Glassboro NJ [series of photographs]
Fort Billings Site Paulsboro NJ | Plan & Sketches (American Memory)
Franklinville Inn, Franklinville NJ
Franklin Hotel, Franklinville NJ
Franklin House, Glassboro NJ | 2001 Article about Franklin House
Friends Meeting House, Woodbury
Gill House, Paulsboro NJ
Griscom Holly, Greenfields, Deptford NJ [link dead, county web site lame]
Holly Bush, Glassboro | More photographs
Hopkins House, Paulsboro vicinity
Hunter-Lawrence-Jessup House [now Gloucester County Historical Society museum building], Woodbury NJ
Thomas Iredell House, Elk NJ
Thomas Iredell House #2, Ewan, NJ
Archibald Moffett House, Mantua vicinity
Mickleton Friends Meeting House (East Greenwich web site)
Moravian Church, Sharptown Rd. Swedesboro vicinity | More photographs and history
Moravian Church Rectory, Swedesboro vicinity
Mullica Hill Town Hall, S. Main St. (Bridgeton Pike) &
Woodstown Rd., Mullica Hill
Mullica Hill Friends Meeting House, Mullica Hill (Harrison) NJ
Northnagle Log Cabin | History and photographs | Gibbstown (Greenwich) NJ
Paul House, Broad Street (near intersection of Commerce Street) Paulsboro NJ
Pitman Grove Camp Meeting, Pitman
John Rambo House, Mantua Grove Rd., Paulsboro vicinity
Red Bank Battlefield aka site of Fort Mercer, in National Park, NJ
Richardson Avenue School, Swedesboro (scroll down for photo) | History only [Archive]
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 51 N. Main St., Mullica Hill
Peter Stille House, Swedesboro vicinity
Stanger Burial Ground, Glassboro NJ
Stratton Mansion, Swedesboro vicinity
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Main & Focer Sts., Glassboro
The Tench Francis House & Barn, Manuta Creek, Paulsboro vicinity
Trinity Church, Church & Main Sts., Swedesboro | History & Photos
Union Street School, Mantua, NJ [archived version]
Vanleer "Schorn" Cedar Log Cabin, Swedesboro vicinity | 2nd photograph
West-Newbold House, Swedesboro vicinity [10/03 - the current owner indicates this house is the Thomas West House in Westville]
Whitall House, Delaware River & Hessian Ave., National Park | 2nd photograph
James Whitall Jr.House, National Park, Gloucester County, NJ
Zion Methodist Church, Malaga vicinity, Gloucester County, NJ

OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS:

Stereoscopic views of Central and Southern New Jersey; betw 1860-1920; Views of Central and Southern New Jersey including Gloucester City, Red Bank, Trenton, Vineland, and views along the Shrewbury River, including views of churches, bridges, homes, schools, state asylum and grounds, interiors, a porcelein factory, fires, group portraits, including children, horse and cart.

Library of Congress - American Memory Digital Collection (searchable)

National Register
of Historic Places
in Gloucester Co. NJ

Penny Postcards - Gloucester Co NJ

Photographs and
Descriptions of
Churches in
Gloucester Co NJ

More Historic Sites in
NJ

Images of Very
Important People in New Jersey during the
American Revolution

Small Towns, Black Lives. a photographic record historically African American communities of southern New Jersey
(Swedesboro NJ is one
of the towns presented)