Showing posts with label Browns Mills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Browns Mills. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Brown's Mills Supply Co.

Brown's Mills Supply Co.
Lumber & Millwork
Lakehurst Road and Mirror Lake
Brown's Mills, N.J.




Friday, September 24, 2010

MALLOW'S The PIG n' WHISTLE INN





New Jersey Mirror

MARRIAGE
Pierce-Felton
Date: May 12, 1937
Page: 1
Column: 7
Summary: Miss Mary Elizabeth Felton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Felton, of New Alexandria, Pa., and George I. Pierce, of New York City, were married at the Presbyterian parsonage, at Beacon, N. Y., on Thursday afternoon, May 6, at 4:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. MacKinley, pastor of the church preformed(sic) the ceremony. Miss Rebecca Woods, of Cold Springs, N. Y., was maid of honor for the bride, and William Feigelstock, of New York City, was best man for the groom. Following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Pierce left for a week's wedding trip to Virginia Beach, Va., at The Cavalier Hotel. On Saturday night, Mr. and Mrs. Pierce and Mr. and Mrs. Felton, are giving a reception at the Pig'n Whistle Inn, Brown's Mills, for about fifty of their friends. The bride is a graduate of Greensburg High School, where she was class valedictorian, and of Wellesley College, where she was an honor student. Mrs. M. W. Felton and her daughter came as guests to the inn at Brown's Mills in 1921 and operated it from that year to 1928 as an inn. They sold it that year but returned in 1930, at that time operating it as a sanatorium for some years, returning it to the status of an inn in 1936. Mr. Pierce is a second vice president of Chase National Bank, New York City, and is a member of the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn and Huntingdon, Long Island. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce will make their home at 494 Greenwood avenue, Trenton.

MARRIAGES
Headline: MT. HOLLY PERSONALS
Date: June 8, 1939
Page: 4
Column: 2
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. George Pierce who have been spending sometime(sic) in California since their marriage have taken a cottage on Mirror Lake at Brown's Mills for the summer. Mrs. Pierce will be remembered as the former Miss Mary Felton, manager and proprietor of the Pig'n Whistle Inn at Brown's Mills.



Marriage
Headline: Hart--Pierce
Date: November 22, 1940
Page: 4
Column: 5

Summary: Mrs. Mary Felton Pierce and Frank E. Hart, of the Pig'n Whistle Inn, Brown's Mills, were married on Monday afternoon, November 18, 1940, at 4:30 o'clock at the Holley Chambers, 33 Washington Square, West New York City, the home of the bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Hart. Mrs. Pierce id the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McAllister W. Felton, of New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, and widow of George L. Pierce, former vice president of Chase Nstional Bsnk, New York City. Mr. Hart is a graduate of Syracuse University. After December 1, 1940, Mr. and Mrs. Hart will reside at the Pig'n Whistle Inn.

Harvard Alumni Bulletin

May 1922




The New York Times


COL. PFEIFFER DIES; WAS JERSEY LEADER; Former State Senator, Who Was Prominent in Democratic Politics, Expires at 70.

. February 25, 1926,

Fire in the Pig'n Whistle Inn's, Browns Mills, NJ, early out fourteen guests of thehotel in one section of the building and did damage estimated at $4000 before the ...
September 13, 1927

200 ROUTED AS INN BURNS; 100 Firemen Battle in Vain to Save Jersey Building.

September 07, 1936,



Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Lakehurst Ready To Receive ZR-2, August 13, 1921

EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER--PHILADELPHIA
August 13, 1921

Clic on article to magnify



Lakehurst Road 1914

South Pemberton Road 1896




October 4, 1920



Monday, August 23, 2010

M.E. Church, Browns Mills

Summer Weddings held at
M. E. Church
In-The-Pines

August 24, 1938
Miss Grace E. Rowland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Rowland, of Little Pine Lake and Drexel Hill, Pa., became the bride of Robert R. Dougdale, son of Robert S. Dougdale, of Philadelphia, at a four o'clock ceremony in Brown's Mills M. E. Church on Saturday afternoon. Rev. Joseph T. Edwards officiated.

August 17,1938
Dugdale-Rowland -- Miss Grace Rowland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Rowland, of Little Pine Lake, Brown's Mills, and Drezell Park, Pa., became the bride of Robert R. Dugdale, son of Robert S. Dugdale, of Philadelphia, at a quiet 4 o'clock ceremony in the Brown's Mills Community M. E. Church on Saturday afternoon. The Rev. Joseph T. Edwards officiated. Miss Rose M. Rowland, the bride's sister, and William Errickson, of Philadelphia, were the only attendants. The couple will make their home in Llanerch, Pa.

July 3, 1935
Terry-Morgan -- Miss Catherine L. Morgan, of Wainscott, L. I., and Captain Thomas E. Terry a Reserve Engineer, stationed at Camp Dix, were married in the Brown's Mills M. E. Church Saturday afternoon by Rev. Edward Foote, in a military wedding. Miss Margaret Morgan, sister of the bride, was maid of honor, and Captain F. W. Lee, was best man. The couple was also attended by a military guard of honor.




Monday, March 29, 2010

Browns Mills In The Pines


A look back at the Forest Springs Hotel

Listed in the 1894-95 “Where to Stop”
A Guide To the Best Hotels in the World.





1890 The Annals of hygiene Volume 5

edited by Joseph F. Edwards

Analysis of one of the springs on the Forest Springs Hotel


The Forest Springs Hotel was "located to the rear of where the Mill Village Shopping Center Stands today, the hotel burned to the ground in February 1895."

Marie F. Reynolds ,Images of America Browns Mills

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1918 Blue Book Travel Directions

"turn right past the Post Office on the left"






Monday, February 15, 2010

Postal Service in Pemberton

Post Offices in Pemberton were built near train stations.
Pemberton Borough Post Office, 88 Hanover Street


Train schedules for mail delivery and collection. 1851 The United States post-office guide By Eli Bowen

The Original General Store opened at the end of Whitesbog Road in August of 1899.

http://www.whitesbog.org/pdf%20files/newsletters/4th-quarter-07%20newsletter%20with%20extras.pdf


Mail room blueprint for the new general store built in 1924.


The modern cancellation stamp used at the Annual Blueberry Festival.
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1831 Table of the post offices in the United States: arranged by states and ...
By United States. Post Office Dept
1856 Post Office directory, or, Business man's guide to the post offices in the ...
By Daniel D. Tompkins Leech, United States Postal Service
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1880
1880 A Complete pronouncing gazetteer, or, geographical dictionary of , Volume 1 By Joseph Thomas, Thomas Baldwin

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Browns Mills In-The-Pines Improvement Assoc.



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