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.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
The past comes alive in pictures.
"In 1913, the Haddon Fortnightly created a swimming hole by constructing a dam across a stream running through Mountwell Woods," according to Cliff Brunker of the Historical Society of Haddonfield. "They did this with cobblestones that had been removed from Kings Highway after it was paved." 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, September 2, 2012
The past comes alive in pictures.
These pictures are from the Historical Society of Haddonfield.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
When horse roamed Haddonfield.
"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.
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 ›