Tentative Itinerary for Sesquicentennial Civil War Tour – Saturday, May 21, 2011
Starting Point: Smithville (Park at Smith's Woods, Railroad Ave.). Board bus at 8:45 a.m.
Route:
A. Mount Holly
- John Woolman Memorial – Attitudes towards Slavery before the war
- Washington St.: Sacred Heart Church; Mt. Moriah Church
B. Westampton
- Timbuctoo – Black Vets Burial Place; story of fugitives living in the county
C. Burlington City
- Burlington County Historical Society - Civil War Exhibit
- Location of Camden & Amboy Station
- U.S. Grant House, Wood Street – Grant family refuge
- Grubb Family residences - NJ 23rd Yahoos
- Waterfront
- Bethlehem AME Church and Vets Cemetery
- Wall Mansion (James Wall - Copperhead)
- Quaker Meeting House
D. Edgewater Park (a.)
- Location of the Grubb Mansion (GAR Yahoo Reunions) - Burned in 1924
LUNCH IN BEVERLY - St. Stephen's Church Hall
- Riverfront Historical Society Exhibit
- Presentation on Delanco's Submarine prototype: The Alligator
E. Beverly
- Riverfront and Manor Road wharf: Disembarkation of troops; Entry point for wounded
- Camp Cadwallader – South Jersey’s only camp for new recruits
- The Hospital (The Clara Barton connection with Burlington County, although not going to Bordentown on this trip.)
- The Soldier at Rest statue
F. Edgewater Park (b.)
- The National Cemetery
G. Vincentown – Military impact on a typical rural community
- Quaker and Baptist Cemeteries: Eayre Brothers graves – Vincentown’s war heroes: one survives another sacrifices his life.
- Eagle Walk (Burr property at Camp Woods)
- Kesiah Davis; Irick Family; GAR Reunions
- Bryan Family homes (prominent family responds to war)
- Woolston Family – Civil War Surgeon
