Sunday, March 31, 2013
Remember Thor's drug store? We do.
"During the 20th century, there were usually several drug stores in town at any given time. About a hundred years ago, Druggist C. S. Braddock Jr. operated a store at the corner of Kings Highway and Haddon Avenue where the Happy Hippo is now located," according to Cliff Brunker of the Historical Society of Haddonfield. "In the 1940s, Thor's was on the corner of Kings Highway and Tanner Street followed by Sunray in the '50s and '60s." Don't miss any Haddonfield or Haddon Township news. Sign up for Patch's free daily newsletter, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
The past comes alive in pictures.
"Tanner Street was named after a leather tannery that was located on the south side of the street between what are now numbers 30 and 74," according to Cliff Brunker or the Historical Society of Haddonfield. "It was called the Tanyard and it extended back almost to where the PATCO station is now located. The earliest mention of the tannery was in a document from 1724."
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Lost Haddonfield. The past comes alive in pictures.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
The past comes alive in pictures.
These pictures are from the archives of the Historical Society of Haddonfield. Don't miss any Haddonfield or Haddon Township news. Sign up for Patch's free daily newsletter, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
The past comes alive in pictures.
Haddon Fire Co. No. 1 is the second oldest continuously operating volunteer company in the U.S. It was organized in 1764 and was first called the Friendship Fire Company of Haddonfield. Each member was required to furnish two leather fire buckets. The company had six ladders and fire hooks. Don't miss any Haddonfield or Haddon Township news. Sign up for Patch's free daily newsletter, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
The past comes alive in pictures.
"According to Frank S. Stewart, former president of the Gloucester County Historical Society and the author of several books on Indian trails and folklore of South Jersey, the first thing done by the Quakers when they erected a meetinghouse in Haddonfield, was to plant a tree on each side of the entrance to the lane leading to the meetinghouse," according to Cliff Brunker of the Historical Society of Haddonfield. "These Buttonwood Trees marked the meetinghouse lane."
Sunday, December 23, 2012
The past comes alive in pictures.
These pictures are from the archives of the Historical Society of Haddonfield.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
The past comes alive in pictures.
These photos are from the archives of the Historical Society of Haddonfield. Don't miss any Haddonfield or Haddon Township news. Sign up for Patch's free daily newsletter, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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, July 22, 2012
The past comes alive in pictures. Look for new pictures every Sunday morning.
The Kings Highway East area in the mid- to late 1800s. These pictures are from the archives of the Historical Society of Haddonfield.
Cliff Brunker
9:18 pm on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
I have a picture of Estates at 417 Haddon Ave. It looks like a sequel may be in the works more ›