Sunday, January 6, 2013
The past comes alive in pictures.
In 1746, Ebenezer Hopkins purchased the land on which the home now known as Birdwood stands on Hopkins Lane in Haddonfield, according to Cliff Brunker of the Historical Society of Haddonfield. In 1778 Ebenezer's son, John Estaugh Hopkins, built a gristmill on the property at Cooper's Creek. John's son, William Estaugh Hopkins, built the present house for his bride, Ann Morgan, in 1794. She named it "Birdwood." These photos are from the archives of the Historical Society of Haddonfield.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
The past comes alive in pictures.
These photos are from the archives of the Historical Society of Haddonfield.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
One of the oldest dinosaur skeletons ever found was discovered in Haddonfield by the owner of several homes featured in this week's historical pictures.
"These photos relate to Haddonfield as the starting place of the Dinosaur Wars between Edward Drinker Cope of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia—whose house was torn down to build the current Haddonfield Borough Hall at 242 Kings Highway East—and O.C. Marsh of Yale University who visited Cope in Haddonfield," according to Katherine Mansfield Tassini of the Historical Society of Haddonfield. "Cope took Marsh to the areas in South Jersey where marl diggers were unearthing early fossils. After Marsh left, Cope stopped getting specimens from the local diggers—he found out that Marsh had paid them to send them to him at Yale instead. The PBS show on American Experience called Dinosaur Wars is a wonderful explanation of the entire …
Sunday, September 30, 2012
The past comes alive in pictures.
These pictures are from the archives of the Historical Society of Haddonfield.
Reed Rothchild
2:37 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013
I haven't been by there recently but I believe the "gristmill" was located where the woods now are by the path leading up the hill by Driscoll Pond aka lower Hopkins pond. There used to be a sign (which still might be there?) with a brief description of the mill that used to be there and I believe you can still see a portion of a wall of the mill through the woods. The historic pictures are very … more ›