Collingswood High School - Knight Yearbook (Collingswood, NJ)

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The development of Collingswood was planned in 1874 by E.C. Knight and R.T. Collings. Also during this time, 827 acres were purchased, in what is now the heart of Collingswood, to be set aside as Knight Park. The park was to be a memo- rial to Knight's mother. . . . The Roberts Park area was one of the first land pur- chases that began Collingswood's growth. . . , The Knight Historic House on Coll- ings Avenue was built by one of the first settlers, Richard Collings. Edward C. Knight inherited the house three genera- tions later , . . In 1873, Collingswood was voted to be a dry town. . . . ln 1878, the first post office was opened. Ten citizens gathered in 1881 in the shoe shop of James Riggins and chose the name of Collingswood. . . , J. Stokes Collings opened the first general store in 1882 on the corner of what is now Collings and Haddon Avenues. , . The Winter of 1899 had below zero weather, 19 of snow, and people were housebound for .u Knight Park Haddon Ave. at Christmas three days. . . , In 1900, trolleys began running on Haddon Avenue. They were heated by coal stoves and the fare was 5C. . . . A smallpox epidemic broke out in 1902 . . . In 1906, Collingswood High School was established at the Garfield School and in 1910 the first C.H.S. graduating class held its commencement in the new E.C. Knight High School. . . . Knight Park began playing a great part in the cultural, social, religious, and athletic history of Collingswood. Sunday evening church services were held there in the summer, community and school pageants were frequent, and band concerts were presented Saturdays and Sundays for many years. . . . The trolley tracks which had long been buried under asphalt along Haddon Avenue were dug up in 1943 by Public Service for scrap for the war ef- fort. , . . ln 1938, Collingswood celebrat- ed its 50th anniversary ..., In 1981, Col- lingswood is a family-suburb of Phila- delphia. . . . ,.,, , New , Hangout at corner of Haddon 8: Collings Haddon 8a Washington Aves

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,,- m.ml1MN-W Present Collingswood Library Collingswood Library in 1917 at Haddon 84 Frazier Aves. . ,,,,,,,,,,,,, . 55 TZ T 1,4 M-uv. , 1:44. . ,, ,A '4'?'H W -V W . .41-,is-f rf f f-rw , . ,. WW... .L ff Collingswood Theatre at corner of Haddon 8: Lees Ave. Stage Manager: H Babylon once had two million peo- ple in it, and all we know about 'em is the names of the kings and some copies of wheat contracts - and contracts for the sale of slaves. Yet every night all those families sat down to supper, and the fa' ther came home from his work, and the smoke went up the chimney - same as here. And even in Greece and Rome, all we know about the reallife of the people is what we can piece together out of the joking poems and the comedies they wrote for the theatre back then. You know how it is: you're twenty-one or twenty-two and you make some deci- Culture in Collingswood Shop on Haddon Ave. sions, then whisssh! you're seventy: you've been a lawyer for fifty years, and that white-haired lady at your side had eaten over fifty thousand meals with you. How do such things begin? Every child born into the world is nature's at- tempt to make a perfect human being. Now there are some things we all know, but we don't take'm out and look at'm very often. We all know that some- thing is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars - everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something had to do with human beings. . Emily: Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any hu- man beings ever realize life while they live it? . Stage Manager: No - The Saints and poets, maybe - they do some This is the way we were in our growing up. 71 Thornton Wilderls 'LOur Town