Items from the Gift Shop
Books:
Stories of Lower Penn's Neck	$10.00
Fond Memories	$20.00
Love in the Park-On Sale!	$10.00
Silver Grove Hotel	$5.00
Map, Riverview Beach Park	$3.00
Post Cards (sepia) 8 cards	$3.00
Note Paper, 12 cards	$5.00
Park DVD	$18.00

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Donations

Arlene Buehler-Three road maps of Lower Penn's Neck, dating back to the 1950s.
Dr. Charles Liebeknecht-An iron spike from the trolley tracks that ran on Broadway in Pennsville.
A set of thirteen Septemberfest mugs.
Donald and Janice Walton-Five Pennsville Memorial High School yearbooks dated 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1976.
Marcia Walton-Collection of State Maps.
Leigh Ingersoll-A beautiful ferry boat on loan to the Society. He built the ferry boat "Philadelphia" and has it on display in a glass case in the museum.

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Congratulations Dr. Charles Liebeknecht

Dr. Liebeknecht was honored by the Pennsville Rotary for having been a member of the Pennsville Rotary club for fifty years.

Special Thanks to Tom Githens

We would like to extend a special "thank you" to Tom Githens, who recently built two additional library units for our history room. We now have four, beautiful matching bookcases. You must stop by to see them!

Salem County Historical Society

The Salem County Historical Society unveiled its 2011 special exhibition "The Farmer Feeds The All: Reflections of Salem County Farm Life"

25th Anniversary

The Pennsville Township Historical Society will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary next year in 2012!

20th Anniversary

Church Landing Farm Museum will be celebrating its 20th anniversary next year, June 13, 2012. Renovations to the museum took over one year, with the help of Atlantic Electric and numerous members of the Society. Our devoted members have always supported our motto, which is "Preserving Yesterday for Tomorrow". This is very visible as you realize the growth we have made over the years, considering that the only building on the grounds was the museum. Counting the gazebo, we have added seven buildings to the grounds since 1992.

Old Post Cards

The Society is looking for old post cards of Pennsville to be donated, or perhaps on loan, so that we can make copies of them.

New Members for 2011

To be updated soon.

St. Georges Church

St. George's Church will be celebrating 300 years in 2014. If you have something of interest connected with our Swedish history, please call Grace Alliegro.

History Room

The History Room continues to be a busy place where organizing and investigating goes on constantly. Wall-to-wall bookcases contain many books about the activities and people of Pennsville. We are very fortunate to have such an enthusiastic team which includes Dot, Ellie, Bernice, Mary, Grace, Donna and Dee.

We are very busy stacking our new shelves with the history of our community. Hopefully, we are not going to run out of space any time soon. We would like to thank Michael Robbins for all his hard work in connection the internet to our computer. It's great!

We are very thankful to have Dot Bunting and her expertise in being able to organize everything. We are always busy.

Riverview Beach Photos

The Society is looking for old photos from people who came down to our beaches from Philadelphia, Wilmington, and surrounding areas during the early days of the Park. The photos could be those of visitors, or of any permanent residence along the river.

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Historic South Jersey

 Grace Alliegro

Fort Mott Historical Background

1838-Land purchased for Battery at Finns' Point
1872-U.S. Army Engineers began building earthworks.
1878-Two (2) eight inch rifles were mounted. No troops were stationed there.. Earthworks with traces of gun mount and powder magazine are located north, near range-finder tower.
1896-On the eve of the Spanish-American War, work began on two batteries with continuous parapet; (1) Battery Harker, named for Brigadier General Charles C. Harker, who was killed at the Battle Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 22, 1863. (2) Battery Arnold, named for Lieutenant Colonel Lewis G. Arnold, who served with the Mexican and Florida Wars and in the War of the Rebellion. He died Sept. 22, 1871.
1897-Dec 14th, Fourth Artillery troops arrived from Washington Barracks. Dec 16th, Battery designated Fort Mott, in honor of Major General Gersham Mott of Burlington, NJ who served with distinction. Second Lieutenant in the Tenth Infantry with the Mexican War, Lieutenant Colonel in 5th NJ Volunteers in 1861, Brigadier General in 6th NJ Volunteers in 1862, and Major General in 1865. He was wounded four times and resigned in 1866, and died Nov 29, 1884.
1901 and 1902-Battery Krayenbuhl, named for Captain Maurice G. Krayenbuhl who was killed in action March 26, 1899, Meyconayan, Philippine Islands.
1902-December 2nd, Three inch rapid fire guns were mounted on the right and left flank of Battery Krayenbuhl. Named Battery Edwards in honor of Captain Robert Edwards, who was killed in action near Frenchtown, Michigan on Jan 22, 1813.
1905-December, Battery Gregg, named for John C. Gregg, who was killed in action at Mariquana, Philippine Islands, March 31, 1899.
1917-July, Guns dismounted from Battery Harker; made ready for shipping to Canada.
1918-November, Number of troops reduced at the fort.
1924-September, Fort placed on partial activity basis.
1951-June, Area dedicated as a State park.