Bridgeton High School - Baconian Yearbook (Bridgeton, NJ)

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SU THAT WE MAY PREPARE UUHSEL BridgeTon, Hisforical and lndusTrial - This is The Theme of our Baconian and also The Theme aT The BridgeTon High School library mural. Funds Tor This mural were raised by The l94O-'4I Library STQTT wiTh The help oT Miss Florence R. Rauch, librarian. IT was painTed by Azio Mar- Tinelli Through The Works ProiecTs Admin- isTraTion. AT The lelT of The mural is The Hancock Saw Mill, builT by Richard Hancock in I686 on whaT was Then Indian Fields Run. Bridge- Ton was known Tor a Time as Cohansey Bridge. This name was derived from The TirsT bridge spanning The Cohansey in l7I6. The RevoluTionary plow and Tield vividly depicl' The imporTanT parT ThaT Bridge-Ton played in supplying The RevoluTionary sol- diers wiTh Toad. The old Iron Foundry locaTed on The Cohansey made cannon,

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5 TU BU FUHTH AND SEB cannon balls, and farm implemenis during early limes. Iron was broughi here by bool and made info nails and iron pipe. Bridge- +on's Liberly Bell rang oul freedom in I776 from The cupola on lhe Old Courl House. La+er, The bell hung in The Wesl Jersey Academy on lhe some sile where our high school building now slands. The remainder of lhe mural porlrays modern Bridgelon wilh irs varied indus- lries. I+ slresses lhe manulaciuring ol glass. lhe Canning ol agricullural producls, and dairy farming. Glassware, which is made in Bridgelan, lin-ds iis way info homes and ollices in nearly every seclion of lhe Uniied Sfales. Our canned farm producfs lespe- cially our lomalo producisl are lcnown lhroughoul 'rhe nafion. Though we are very proud of our hislorical herilage, we also 'rake greal pride in our modern business enlerprises.