South Jersey Culture & History Center at Stockton University

SoJourn 2.1, the third issue of South Jersey history, culture, and geography has arrived from the printers (about a week sooner than we anticipated). You can purchase it from the Stockton University Bookstore, the AtlantiCare Regional Hospital gift shop, Second Time Books in Mt. Laurel (as soon as we can have them delivered), and Amazon or by contacting me, Tom Kinsella, or Paul W. Schopp.

The Articles in this issue:

“The First African American Excursion to Atlantic City” by Paul W. Schopp

“Proving a Legend: A Submarine in the Rancocas Creek” by Alice Smith

“Brevet Brigadier General Elias Wright: Surveyor Extraordinaire” by Elizabeth G. Carpenter

“Mapping the Mullica Valley: Natural History Landscapes” by Kenneth W. Able

“Off Course in a Raging Sea: Captain William M. Phillips and the Plight of the Schooner BENJAMIN E. VALENTINE” by Paul W. Schopp with Anthony Ficcaglia

“Haul Away, Boys!” [Pictorial essay on Shad on the Delaware]

“Jerseyisms” by Francis E. Lee

“The Rebirth of Buzby’s Chatsworth General Store” by R. Marilyn Schmidt

“The Publications of R. Marilyn Schmidt”

“The Endicott-Reardon Family Museum” by Rebecca Muller

“Anecdotes and Memoirs of William Boen”

“The Coia Map Project” by James Pullaro and Paul W. Schopp

We hope you will find this issue both entertaining and informative.

The South Jersey Culture & History Center at Stockton is proud to announce the second issue of SoJourn, a journal devoted to the history, culture, and geography of South Jersey.

Stockton students edited and designed the text; local historians contributed the content.

Copies are available at the Stockton Campus Center Bookstore, Second Time Books in Mt. Laurel, the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center gift shop, and Amazon (or by contacting me, Tom Kinsella).

Contents of this issue:

“Kate Aylesford: Modernity and Place in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens” by Matthew G. Hatvany
A reconsideration of one of the first historical romances based upon events in South Jersey, describing the Battle of Chestnut Neck and Revolutionary era Batsto and Sweetwater.

“Alfred and Muriel: The Story of the J. A. Sweeton House in Cherry Hill, New Jersey” by Brian Stolz as told by Jim Stanton
How South Jersey came to have its one and only Frank Lloyd Wright designed house.

“School Segregation in the Post-Civil War Era: Burlington County, New Jersey, 1865 – 1915” by Zachary T. Baer
Before Brown v. Board of Education and before Plessy v. Ferguson came Pierce v. The Union District Trustees. The story of Jeremiah H. Pierce’s efforts to desegregate Burlington schools.

“Where Blackberries Grew: Margaret Mead in Hammonton” by Patricia Chappine and Mark Demitroff
The story of Margaret Mead’s connection to Hammonton, New Jersey.

“A Day on the Bay with Waterman Phil Andersen” by Susan Allen
A stunning photo essay chronicling a day with two local crabbers.

“South Jersey Fruit Picking Tickets” by Richard Watson
All you ever wanted to know about picker tickets and their use by South Jersey farmers.

“From Butcher Knife to Scalpel: Four Generations of South Jersey Physicians” by Lisa E. Cox, Edward Hutton and Ruth Hutton-Williams
Four generations of general practitioners serving Cumberland County from 1826 through 1976.

“Manufacturing from Menhaden: A History in the Mullica Valley” by Kenneth W. Able
The development and decline of the menhaden industry on and near the Mullica River.

“Carabajal, The Jew: A Legend of Monterey, Mexico” by Charles K. Landis, with an introduction by Vince Farinaccio
A short historical fiction depicting the life of Don Luis de Carabajal y Cueva, governor of Nuevo León, written by Charles K. Landis, founder of Vineland and Sea Isle City, New Jersey.

“Reimagining a Remnant of the Past at Stockton” by James Pullaro and Paul W. Schopp
An artistic interpretation of the sawmill erected on what is now Stockton’s Lake Fred in 1815.

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We are always looking for submissions for future issues. Contact me if you are interested in writing or know someone who might be.

Burlington Biographies: A History of Burlington, New Jersey, Told Through the Lives and Times of its People, by Robert L. Thompson, has arrived from the printers.

At 552 pages, this hardcover study of the city of Burlington, New Jersey, is a well-researched and entertaining introduction to the city’s rich and long history.

Available from SJCHC for $29.95. Please direct inquiries to Thomas.Kinsella@stockton.edu.

During the nineteenth century, James Still was perhaps
the most gifted physician in South Jersey. He
was also African American, the son of former slaves,
who received no more than six months of traditional
schooling, and was self taught in both medical knowledge
and practice. Born in Washington Township,
Burlington County, New Jersey (now Shamong), Dr.
Still overcame poverty and racial animus to become
one of the wealthiest men in South Jersey during his
lifetime. This republication of his outstanding autobiography,
self-published in 1877, is a stirring reminder
of the power of self determination and faith.

This new edition of Early Recollections is not a facsimile
reproduction but is newly typeset with foreword by
Samuel C. Still III and introduction by Paul W. Schopp.
Includes a new and enlarged index.

179 pages, paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9888731-6-2
$8.95

Republished in 2015 by the South Jersey Culture &
History Center. Available on Amazon and by
contacting SJCHC.