Carpenter's Landing was a mercantile settlement located at the head of sloop navigation on Mantua Creek in Mantua Township in Gloucester County, New Jersey.[1]
In the late 1780s, Thomas Carpenter (1752-1847) moved to Carpenter's Landing and established a store and lumber business.[2] In the 1860s, it was described as "a place of considerable trade in lumber, cordwood, etc., and contains one tavern, two stores, 30 dwellings and a Methodist church".[3] The landing is said to have been named either for a man named Carpenter who built boats at the site during its mercantile boom days,[4] or Edward Carpenter, son of Thomas Carpenter and descendant of Samuel Carpenter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who owned the Heston & Carpenter Glass Works in nearby Glassboro, New Jersey, in 1786[5][6] in partnership with Col. Thomas Heston, his wife's nephew.[7]
- ^ Beck, Henry Charlton. More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., 1963, pp. 299-301.
- ^ "Carpenter Family Papers 0115".
- ^ Beck, p. 299.
- ^ Beck, p. 300.
- ^ Charles S. Boyer: Old Inns and Taverns in West Jersey, Camden County Historical Society, Camden, N.J., 1962, pp. 158-159.
- ^ Borough of Glassboro: History - The Past, "Welcome to Glassboro, New Jersey". Archived from the original on July 11, 2011. Retrieved March 31, 2011., retrieved August 1, 2010.
- ^ Arthur Adams: "Memoirs of the Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society" in The Northeast Historic and Genealogical Register, Vol. CVII, Whole Number 425, January 1953, p. 70.