![]() ![]() By 1825 Rowandtown’s citizens had already built a one room schoolhouse which was replaced in 1872 by the two-story Rowandtown School. and Cuthbert Blvd., became known as the village of Rowandtown (named for the village blacksmith John Rowand). Continued growth in the community during the 19th century was due, in no small part, to the development of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad in the 1850s, allowing easy access to Camden, and, by ferry, Philadelphia, and in the southward direction, as far as Absecon Inlet.īesides the village of Haddonfield, a cluster of houses and shops along the Haddonfield Turnpike, between what is today’s Maple Ave. ![]() The newly created township was 5,286 acres and included land to the south and east of what is now Collings Road. Haddon Township’s first Town Hall was built in 1853 on the Haddonfield & Camden Turnpike (Haddon Avenue) where today’s Haddonfield Firehouse is located.īy 1875 Haddon Township was comprised of 81 farms with over 2500 residents living in the township (1400 within the village of Haddonfield which was then under the jurisdiction of the Township of Haddon), and thirty-three manufacturing establishments. ![]() ![]() The township’s name comes from John Haddon whose daughter, Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh, came from England in the 1700s and settled on her father’s large landholdings, which included what is now Haddon Township. On February 23, 1865, just a few months before the end of the Civil War, the eastern section of Newton Township was split off and the Township of Haddon was created. The new statute changed the old practice of holding general elections on two days in different locations in a township and forced many townships to break into smaller units. The community survived the Revolutionary War and the decision of Camden to incorporate as a city, but historians conclude that the township may have split into two because of changes enacted by the New Jersey Legislature in the mid-1840s. Newton Township’s first European settlers came to the area of Newton Creek in 1681. ![]()
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