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Lost Haddonfield: Stewart's Boat House

The past comes alive in pictures.

Stewart's boathouse once stood at the foot of Ellis Street between the Mt. Pisgah AME Church and the bridge leading into the Batesville section of Cherry Hill.

Hinchman Farms, in the Lizzie Haddon section of Haddonfield, was purchased around 1900 for leisure activities, such as golf. It was replaced by 1920 with Tavistock Farm to avoid "blue laws" in Haddonfield that prohibited playing golf on Sunday.

Pictures of Stewart's boathouse and Hinchman Farms are from the archives of the .

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