Tuesday, March 28, 2006
New Blog on the Block
A big hidy-ho to a new South Jersey blog, merchantville.blogspot.com. The blog focuses on the goings on in, you guessed it, Merchantville.
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Across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, over the big blue Ben Franklin Bridge, Camden, New Jersey awaits; here are some of the tales of the city and crossing the river to reach it.
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Thanks for mentioning the Merchantville blog, Julie. Residents there are currently trying to figure out how to influence a downtown redevelopment project... Any ideas from your readers for enhancing a small historic main street with new construction?! If so, please join us at merchantville.blogspot.com
M.
The best place to find planners who redevelop downtowns, especially small downtowns, is at the Congress of The New Urbanism. Their web is www.cnu.org
Also check out there Congress XIV link. The Congress starts 6/1/06. Read the program for the convention and you will get an idea of what they can do for your town.
With the army safely in Pennsylvania, Washington's next task was to feed and house them and to plan his next move. He occupied a house at Morrisville (then called Summerseat) across from Trenton, New Jersey while his men were quartered near McKonkey's Ferry. Because of the temporary nature of the camp the exact location of the troops is uncertain, but local tradition places them near the Thompson-Neely House. The entire area was farmland and given the time of year there would have been much available open space for an encampment. From a military standpoint, the main camp near the Thompson-Neely House would have made perfect sense. It is about midway between McKonkey's Ferry and Coryell's Ferry (now called New Hope). It was at Coryell's Ferry that the main road from Philadelphia to New York passed.
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