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Lost Haddonfield: Horsing Around

When horse roamed Haddonfield.

 
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"C. H. Smith's Sale and Exchange Stables, later Budd and Davis Livery Stables, were located along Mechanic Street directly behind Gibbs Tavern, now 125-129 Kings Highway East,"according to "Lost Haddonfield" by Doug Rauschenberger and Katherine Mansfield Tassini. "The business operated from the 1880s or earlier until about 1920. The site is now a borough parking lot." provided
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"'Loading Hay' was taken about 1894 by the late Benjamin T. Wood in the field behind his family's home at 209 Kings Highway West,"according to "Lost Haddonfield" by Doug Rauschenberger and Katherine Mansfield Tassini. "The barns in the rear belong to the houses located along the west side of the first block of West End Avenue.  Many of these barns still exist today."
"C. H. Smith's Sale and Exchange Stables, later Budd and Davis Livery Stables, were located along Mechanic Street directly behind Gibbs Tavern, now 125-129 Kings Highway East,"according to "Lost Haddonfield" by Doug Rauschenberger and Katherine Mansfield Tassini. "The business operated from the 1880s or earlier until about 1920. The site is now a borough parking lot."
"This picture, taken about 1875, shows Redman Avenue being graded,"according to "Lost Haddonfield" by Doug Rauschenberger and Katherine Mansfield Tassini. "Without mechanized equipment the task of grading and cutting a road was hard work and mostly manual labor; the large horse-drawn roller is the only major piece of equipment visible in this photograph."
"A delivery wagon shown making its way down Washington Avenue early on a very snowy spring day; the photograph is dated April 3, 1915,"according to "Lost Haddonfield" by Doug Rauschenberger and Katherine Mansfield Tassini. "The houses are 200 (in the center of the photo) and 206 Washington Ave."

"For most of the history of Haddonfield, horses were essential to transportation," according to Lost Haddonfield by Doug Rauschenberger and Katherine Mansfield Tassini.

"At one time, they were the only means of getting from place to place with any speed. Horses were also essential to the farmer, not only for help with ploughing, but also for hauling produce, lumber, fertilizer and other goods to and from the farm."

These pictures are from the archives of the Historical Society of Haddonfield.

Related Topics: Historical Society of Haddonfield, Horses, Lost Haddonfield, and historic pictures

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