Haddon Heights High School - Garneteer Yearbook (Haddon Heights, NJ)

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the Atlantic City Railroad. Lawnside is a borough and has its own grammar school, churches, fire hall, and political organizations. It has a population of 1,379 and covers an area of 1.67 square miles. MAGNOLIA was originally known as Greenland, but was changed to Magnolia by the Narrow Gauge railroad which ran through it in 1878. The White Horse Pike was a toll road and one of the gates was located at Warwick Road. The church-loving people from miles around attended the Sunday services at the Methodist Church which is still in use. Before it was incorporated into a borough it was divided into Centre and Clementon townships. It was incorporated in 1915, and its first mayor was Harry Wolohon. Mag- nolia now has a population of 1,522 and covers an area of .92 square mile. SOMERDALE was originally called Somerville, but because of some confusion in the mails with a town of the same name in North Jersey it was changed to its present name. Children of seventy years ago attended the traditional little red school house which is still standing on the point of Warwidc and Somerdale Road. When the farmers weren't raising crops or tending to their farms they were operating the marl pits. This marl was used as a fertilizer, but was replaced by a commercial fer- tilizer because it did not pay as instantaneous benefits as the newer type. Edward N. Kirkbride developed the Crestwood section, and by the influx of Philadel- phians, the population increased until it has now reached its present total of 1,151. Somerdale has an area of 1.37 square miles and an assessed valuation of 3708,079. Before it was incorporated into a borough in 1929, with Mr. William Aimee as its first mayor, it was part of the old Clementon Town- ship. Mr. Charles Mauger is its present mayor. In 1889 the Rural Land Improvement Com- pany organized the village which is now known as STRATFORD. The land was originally the Hinchman-Lippincott farm, prize-farm of South jersey at that time. In 1892 six houses had been constructed, most of the materials coming from the Hinchman-Lippincott farm. White Horse Tavern, a stop-over place for travelers from Berlin to Camden, was built about 1750. It gave its name to the White Horse Pike which was laid out in 1806. After much consideration, the name of Strat- ford, known to us as the birthplace of William Shakespeare, seemed to lit the high hopes the early settlers had for this village. In 1903 it was a part of Clementon township, and in 1925 it became a borough. The first school met in a house which was built out of a sheep barn of the Hinchman-Lippincott farm. U1

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Rus SUBURBAN TO HADDON HEIGHTS N ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the fine representation of suburban towns in Haddon Heights High School and for the indebtedness our school feels to the outlying districts, it is with deep gratitude that we use as our theme suburban life. We wish to thank those who so kindly helped us in the compiling of these histories. Since Haddon Heights is the focal point of all student activities, we shall naturally begin our historical trip from here. HADDON HEIGHTS was incorporated as a borough March 2, 1904, from parts of Haddon and Newton Townships, with Benjamin H. Lippincott as its first mayor. He suggested the name of Prospect Ridge, but the descendants of the Haddonfield section succeeded in having it called Haddon Heights. Haddon Heights was enlarged by adding the Fairfield tract in 1925. Characterized by progressiveness, it has grown to such an extent that it boasts a fire department, twenty-one miles of paved streets, a police department, three schools, a public library, ambulance service, fifteen hundred residences, private waterworks, modern sewage disposal plant, Borough Hall, a fine park, and Roman Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Christian Scientist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches. Progress-industry is the word on the official seal of BARRINGTON, the town which immediately adjoins Haddon Heights on the east side of the White Horse Pike. Its original name was Dentdale, a station on the Philadelphia 8: Reading Railroad, a narrow gauge road which boasted two trains a day. In 1890 Mr. Burr Haines sold his 112-acre farm to a syndicate, which cut the farm into building lots. Burrwood was proposed for its name, but through the influence of Wil- liam Simpson, a native of Barrington, Massa- chusetts, the new settlement was called Barring- ton. On March 27, 1917, it was created from Center Township into a borough, with Edward Dold as its mayor, and a council of seven mem- bers. Barrington now has a population of 2,252 people. It has a post office, fire hall, borough hall, two schools, a World War Memorial, a sewage disposal plant, and a Presbyterian, Metho- dist, and Brethren Church. Following next in line going south on the White Horse Pike we approach LAWNSIDE, the only incorporated negro colony in New jersey. Lawnside in its embryo was a tract of land sold to negroes for a small amount of money by Ralph Smith, of Haddonfield. Runaway slaves found refuge there before the Civil War and called it Free Haven. After I.ee's surrender it became known as Snow Hill and in 1907 it was changed to Lawnside by XX'-, Nxxyixeaa I6l

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In 1912 there were 100 people in Stratford, now there are 958 people. It has a post office, fire hall, town hall, church, railroad station and a school house. To build is to conquer is a motto which may be aptly applied to LAUREL SPRINGS, the name being taken from the abundant growth of laurel and the vast number of springs. It was originally a part of Clementon Township, and in 1913, was incorporated into a borough-Joseph W. Du Rand being its first mayor. The present mayor is 1. B. Moran. Like many other newly founded places, Laurel Springs, in its birth, had no electricity, sidewalks, water, or any conveniences. Three oil lamps were the sole lighting system of the town. Homes were equipped with windmills in order to obtain water. When there was no wind the inhabitants had no water. Walt Whitman, famed for his O' Captain, My Captain lived in Laurel Springs, and composed his poetry along the banks of Laurel Lake and the sulphur springs. His home there is still occupied and is in excellent condition. At present Laurel Springs has two fire companies, a Camden County Free Library, a printing house, four churches, a grammar school, a national bank, a third class post office, and a population of 1,500. One of the contributing factors in the history of CLEMENTON is that it was one of the early routes used for transporting fish, clams, and oysters. It was originally a part of Gloucester Township, but in 1901 was incorporated as a township, and in 1925 be- Came known as Clementon Borough. One of the oldest land-marks is the company of Snyder and Gibbs Feed Mill, which was founded by the Honorable Theodore Gibbs, father of the first mayor, Willard T. Gibbs. The school children of the early days were compelled to go to the school known as District No. 49, which is located on the ground occupied by the Lindenwold Grammar School. Signal Hill, a part of Clementon, is known as the second highest hill in South Jersey. Until a. year or two ago, a monument erected by the U. S. Government for a look-out station was located on this hill. The present population of Clementon is 2,605 and the mayor is Herbert T. McAdams. A PINE HILL, which belongs to Clementon Township, was known in 1911 as Clementon Heights. At that time there were six families and two general stores. The only water obtain- able was sold by the stores for one cent a bucket. The prosperity boom sent the people from Philadelphia into the suburban communities, so ISI