This just in today's e-mail from Crossroads of the Revolution. You can visit their web site and they have an events page. I only listed the one item that was of interest to me and local to me. The rest of the items in the e-mail were further north from here.
By the way, I love the Gabreil Daveis Tavern (and no, that is not a typo or misspelling, that is how Gabreil Daveis spelled his name.) The historic tavern is right off the Black Horse Pike and if you have good vision, you can see the street sign advertising it on the left, traveling east on the Black Horse Pike in Glendora.
I read a fascinating essay once at Gloucester County Historical Society Library, Woodbury, about trade on the Timber Creek. It mentioned this tavern as a stopping off place since the Timber Creek is tidal and once the delivery had been made by boat, the boatmen would have to wait somewhere for the tide to change so they could make their way back to wherever they had come from. The Timber Creek there is all silted up and overgrown and you would hardly be able to recognize it as a navigable body of water now, but once it was a very busy waterway for the movement of goods from local farms and mills to Philadelphia.
In fact, in the way that family history can intersect with general history, my ancestors, the Cheeseman family of Blackwood (You may have seen Major Peter Cheeseman Road beside Camden County College) had several mills on the Timber Creek, a sawmill and, I think, two gristmills. A photo of a Cheeseman mill is in the Mills of Camden County book, a slim and fascinating book written by, I believe, Charles Boyer, indefatigable local historian.
I read a fascinating essay once at Gloucester County Historical Society Library, Woodbury, about trade on the Timber Creek. It mentioned this tavern as a stopping off place since the Timber Creek is tidal and once the delivery had been made by boat, the boatmen would have to wait somewhere for the tide to change so they could make their way back to wherever they had come from. The Timber Creek there is all silted up and overgrown and you would hardly be able to recognize it as a navigable body of water now, but once it was a very busy waterway for the movement of goods from local farms and mills to Philadelphia.
In fact, in the way that family history can intersect with general history, my ancestors, the Cheeseman family of Blackwood (You may have seen Major Peter Cheeseman Road beside Camden County College) had several mills on the Timber Creek, a sawmill and, I think, two gristmills. A photo of a Cheeseman mill is in the Mills of Camden County book, a slim and fascinating book written by, I believe, Charles Boyer, indefatigable local historian.
Spring Open House and Re-enactment Weekend at the Gabreil Daveis Tavern in Glendora
April 27 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and April 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Tour the tavern and enjoy demonstrations of blacksmithing, campfire cooking, weaving, musket building and more. Plus, games and drills for the kids. More information.
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