A Key to a Historical Map
(Also see the guide to city and town names.)
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Fort Elfsburg: Beginning with an expedition that departed Sweden in 1637 or 1638, the Swedes and Finns (then part of Sweden) purchased land from the Indians on both sides of the Delaware Bay and River. Upon arriving they laid the foundation of a town and fort they named Christina, for the Swedish Queen, on the west side of the river. At the close of the year 1640 or early in 1641 a settlement was established on the east side they called Elfsburg or Elsinborg.
- Site of Emigrant House (Andrew Thompson 1681)
- Isaac Smart House 1696, currently owned by Champion Coles
- John Darkin House (Windham) 1720, Razed
- Bradway or Hall House 1682, demolished 1965 for expansion of Gaynor Glass Works
- Site First Fair Grounds: Salem was a port of entry in 1682, and the same year a market was by law to be held every Tuesday near the old wharf, then called the tower landing and designated the marketplace. No sales were to take place before 11 o’clock in the morning; also fairs were established by law, to be held in Salem first and second of May, the 20th and 21st of October annually. Later entrance was on Market Street (1928)
- The Salem Oak Tree: an ancient white oak tree and the Friends burial grounds in Salem. For age, health and location, it is the most outstanding living monument in the State. If we could examine its cross section we would find that the rain precipitation during its long life is recorded for posterity showing narrow rings for year’s light rain fall, wide rings for years of abundant rain. In 1881, the Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends purchased from Samuel Mickelson and wife Ann 16 acres of land and house built of hewn logs on Bradway Street for a meeting house and burial grounds and for other purposes. The original log house was used until 1699, when a larger brick house was built east of the oak tree and occupied until the present meetinghouse on East Broadway was finished in 1772.
- Doctor Francis Bilderback House, 1813 early frame dwelling originally built by Hedge Thompson
- Court house 1735
- Site of the first Post Office in Salem County
- Alexander Grant House 1721 (Salem County Historical Society)
- Robert G. Johnson House 1807 (Salem County building)
- John’s Episcopal Church: original building built in 1728 and occupied by the British in 1778.
- Site of John Fenwick’s House (Ivy Point), 1676
- Salem Creek Bridge: was a covered bridge from 1831-1923 which had replaced earlier bridges. It is now part of the state highway system (Rte. 45)
- Friends’ Meeting House 1772
- Richard Johnson House (Guilford Hall)
- John Wilkinson House (Penny Hill) 1727
- Site of Robert Zane House 1676
- Richard Smith House 1729 Salem Hancocks Bridge Rd Being restored by the Harvey family
- Lewis Morris House 1745 AKA William Goodwin has been extensively remodeled
- John Mason House 1725owned by Mr. & Mrs. Ted Demko
- Abel Nicholson House 1722 Owned by the Salem Old House Foundation
- George Abbot House 1700 For Sale, owned by Judge Thomas Bowen
- Massacre at Hancock House, March 1778 25-2 Hancock House State park open to the public
- John Maddox Denn House 1725
- Thomas Shourds Home built by Joseph Ware II, 1730
- Site of Christopher White House 1690
- Loggetown Cemetery Marker for those killed at Hancock House 1778 rear of Canton Baptist Cemetery
- Mansion House of Col. Benjamin Holme : burned by the British March 1778 owned by Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duffy
- William Smith Burying Ground: Marker for those killed at Quinton’s Bridge 1778 County owned.
- William Tyler House 1690-1730 restored in 1947
- Daniel Smith’s House (Weatherby) occupied by the British 1778owned by Mr. & Mrs. Ron Driscol
- Skirmish at Quinton’s Bridge
- William and Mary Oakford House 1736 owner Pierce Acton
- Our Historical Record of Glass: Casper Wistar, a brass button maker came from Philadelphia in 1738 to establish the first glass plant in Salem County. Others that followed were Salem Glass Works, Gayner Glass Works
- John Pledger, Jr. House 1727: Pillaged by British in 1778 Corporate property
- Hugh Middleton House, 1735, on the Kings Highway owned by Mr. & Mrs. John Carpenter
- Richard Brick House 1750 110 Compromise Road
- Samuel Smith House 1718
- William Hall House 1724 Owned by Emel family
- Marker in memory of John Fenwick
- Salem County Almshouse established 1796 part demolished only Insane asylum remains
- Site of Mary White’s Vineyard
- Hill-Austin House 1746 146 Old Salem Rd
- Champney-Reed House 1746 Old Salem Rd
- Zacheus and Deborah Dunn House 1743 AKA Pissant House
- Glebe Farm or Parsonage See Woodstown Almanac 1812
- Seven Stars Tavern 1762 owned by Mr. & Mrs. Frank
- On the south bank of Salem Creek, near Sharptown, still stands a patch of Eastern Hemlock on the edge of what was formerly an Indian village. It is he only stand in Southern New Jersey. The farm was owned by Truitt Perry for a number of years and the house was built in 1734.
- Kachikanizacheen “big tract of meadow land along a river – now known as Oldman’s Creek.”
- Carney’s Point
- Deepwater
- Saint George’s Church, Penns Neck Originally Swedish Lutheran (original church log)
- Penns Neck Presbyterian Church Only cemetery remains on road to Riverview Restaurant
- Finns Point National Cemetery
- Ft Mott built in defense of the Delaware Bay & River now a State Park
- Obisquahasit on Freas Rd
- Mathias Lambson House, 1741 Lambson Tavern, Old Tollgate Rd.
- Jacob and Catharine Mattson Richman House 1746
- Pole Tavern – Pittsgrove razed
- David Davis House, 1731 Owned by a descendant
- Pittsgrove Presbyterian Church
- German Lutheran Church now Friesburg Lutheran
- Daretown Presbyterian Church
- Implements of the Indians found
- William Bradway House
- Baptist Church at Cohansey
- Greenwich Tea Party Monument
- Presbyterian Church at Fairfield, Cumberland County Old Stone Church
- Pennsville-New Castle Ferry. What is left of entrance can be seen behind the Riverview Restaurant.