New Jersey, Cumberland County, Greenwich
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Built 1728 by Jacob Ware. "The oldest tavern in the County where one could obtain bedde and board for man and beast."
(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Built 1728 by Jacob Ware. "The oldest tavern in the County where one could obtain bedde and board for man and beast."(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Built in 1795 by Richard Wood, merchant. A son. Dr. George B. Wood (d.1879), became a noted medical professor and writer.
Endowed as free school for poor children by Zachariah Barrow. Oldest educational building in Cumberland Co., it served until the advent of public supported learning. Militia trained here-1812.
Greenwich was the principal colonial settlement of Cumberland County, serving as one of New Jersey’s first official ports-of-entry under British rule. While other early settlers, primarily Dutch and Swedish, were the first Europeans to explore this region, it was English settlers that determined the primary character of Greenwich and the role it would play in the creation of a new nation.
Site of Baptist Log Meeting House and Burial Ground settled by The Bowen Company and their leader Rev. Timothy Brooks. United with Cohansey Baptist Church in 1710. Seventh Day Baptists in this company established the Shiloh Church 1737.
Built in 1808 on land donated by William and Hope Hollingshead. Rev Richard Sneath was the first Methodist Preacher.
This house was built and owned for twenty years by the Fairfaxes of Belvoir
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This memorial is dedicated
Encompassing almost 130 acres, the Mount Olivet Cemetery was founded in 1907 by Flavious G. McPeak (1858-1933) and his wife, Johnnie Clara Lester McPeak (1858-1936), who arrived in Fort Worth in 1894 from Tennessee. The land on which the cemetery is located was purchased by Mrs. McPeak in 1895, and the family built a two-story home in 1896.
Standing at this point and looking to your south toward the open field, you are looking at the western edge of the parade ground. To your right is the current railroad that once was used by the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad, the line used to bring thousands of troops in from all over Louisiana. There was no train depot here at Camp Moore. Instead the men disembarked in the Town of Tangipahoa, ½ mile south, and then marched up here. In your immediate front, along the edge of this field where it meets the road and just past the driveway in your front is where a large two-story Commissary and Quartermaster House stood. All foodstuffs and quartermaster supplies for the various companies were issued here. Just past that point you will notice that the local road disappears to the left. It was in that area that the sutlers or merchant's shops, were located, just along the edge of Beaver Creek. Included in this lot were several restaurant shanties and a photographer. Just past the sutler area was Beaver Creek, which also formed the southern boundary of Camp Moore. If you were to continue around the bend in the road to the left. a large field opens on your front and right. This was the main camp for Camp Moore, where individual companies had their tents and company streets. Proceed to Marker No. 2.
Face the field to the south. This large field was the Parade Ground. It was cleared of pine trees by men that came through Camp Moore. Today it maintains the same overall size and shape that it did during the war. While the various companies were trying to organize into regiments, the men were taught discipline, the manual of arms and the schools of the company and battalion on this field. It was here that the individual companies of 64-100 men drilled and became proficient at marching and moving as organized bodies of troops. Drill masters were hired to help with the instruction as most of the officers were not trained when they arrived here. Every day the men would drill as squads of 10-12 men, then as companies of 64-100 men, then as regiments of about 1000 men and then each afternoon there was a dress parade on these grounds where the entire came would march on parade. General Taylor, the commander of Camp Moore would view the parade of troops. The campsites for the main camp were straight to your front, behind the tree line in the distance and continued on to the banks of Beaver Creek. To your extreme left (or east) was the upper camp or Camp Tracy, as the men called it. This was an additional camping area that extended on behind the cemetery. Proceed to Marker No. 3.
The cemetery was reclaimed from the elements in 1903 by the veterans themselves and the women who became members of Camp Moore Chapter #562, UDC. The land was bought from logging interests and the fence installed by 1905. The cemetery, fence and wall that you see here were dedicated on June 3. 1905. Within two years, the monument had been acquired from the Magnolia Marble Works of Magnolia Miss. and was dedicated on October 24, 1907. The cemetery contains an unknown number of graves at this time. The vast majority of these men died of disease during the two extremely bad measles outbreaks here in late 1861 and early 1862. The current markers do not mark the individual graves but were placed in an aesthetic manner in the 1990's for men that research has shown definitely died at Camp Moore. The actual graves are believed to be over the entire span of the enclosed cemetery. The soldier on top of the monument stands as a silent sentry over the graves of these men unknown to all but God. The named headstones are for men that research has definitively concluded died at Camp Moore. Numbers of men believed to be buried here have ranged from 100 to 800. Proceed to Marker No. 4.
Although difficult to see because of the vegetation at the cemetery fence, the ground falls off sharply just outside the fence. The same creek that you crossed to get to the cemetery passes along this back side of the cemetery. The ground rises on the other side and becomes high again. On this high ground, approximately 50 yards in front of you is where Camp Tracy was located. the upper camp of Camp Moore. This was an additional camping area when Camp Moore was loaded with troops, probably in excess of 3000. It was named for General Elisha Tracy, the militia commander of Camp Moore. Continuing to the east from this point for ¼ mile will put you at the Tangipahoa River. the eastern boundary of Camp Moore. The men used the Tangipahoa River and Beaver Creek for drinking water, bathing and recreation. Proceed to Marker No. 5.
You are standing at the northern boundary of Camp Moore. Looking into the woods to your front, you are viewing the direction from which came the fatal attack on Camp Moore on October 5th, 1864. Federal cavalry under Colonel John Fonda of the 118th Illinois Cavalry from Baton Rouge had passed through Clinton and other points west of here and then passed north, near Osyka before proceeding to attack Camp Moore. There were only a few dozen troops here by that time and they scattered under the attack. The Federals overran Camp Moore and destroyed everything here of value including a tannery, large quantities of gray cloth and clothing and other quartermaster stores. In addition, the garrison flag was captured. It was raided again on November 30th, 1864 under General John Davidson and all buildings were destroyed as well. Camp Moore, for all intents and purposes, ceased to exist after that time. Proceed to Marker No. 6.
This cabin was believed to be built in 1929 to serve as the meeting house for the Camp Moore Chapter No. 562, United Daughters of the Confederacy and served in that capacity for many years. It originally stood east of Marker No. 2 but was removed to this point many years ago. The cabin was designed after a cabin that served the same purpose for a UDC chapter in Mansfield, LA. The monument standing here was dedicated on September 9th, 1979 and stands in memory of the United Daughters of the Confederacy's efforts to preserve Camp Moore. On the reverse side is listed the chapter members of the Camp Moore UDC chapter that helped preserve Camp Moore in 1902.
This is the point of discovery for the Flora Temple Mine. In the early 1870’s, a Colorado River steamboat captain named Isaac Polthamus purchased the Flora Temple Mine. This mine was the 2nd patented claim in Arizona (1871). Polthamus and his partner, Nicholas Gunter, were the original claimants. The Castle Dome Mining & Smelting Company acquired ownership and operations of the mine until 1933 when it was sold to Mrs. Eliza DeLuce.
