The Penn's Grove Record (Penn's Grove, Salem Co., N.J.) 1878-????
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,865 issues from 1882 to 1923, published in Penns Grove, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
For over a hundred years, the Penn’s Grove Record provided entertainment and reporting on local, national, and international news for the citizens of Penn’s Grove, New Jersey. Located in Salem County, Penn’s Grove was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 8, 1894, from portions of Upper Penn’s Neck Township (now Carneys Point Township), based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier. Prior to its incorporation, Penn’s Grove was the only village in Upper Penn’s Neck. The borough is less than one square mile in area and is bordered by the Delaware River to the west.
Named for William Penn, the village of Penn’s Grove was sparsely populated until the 1850s when the formation of the Wilmington and New Jersey Steamboat Company allowed people from more urban areas, such as Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to visit on summer excursions, with pleasure boats making several trips per day to Penn’s Grove. In addition to leisure excursions, Penn’s Grove also had freight boats taking agricultural produce from the surrounding area to Philadelphia. A railroad was built from Woodbury to Penn’s Grove in 1876. Fishing employed many; the fish were prepared and frozen in Penn’s Grove and then transported to Philadelphia and New York. Agriculture was primarily sweet potatoes, melons, tomatoes, rye, corn, and wheat. Due to an abundance of tomatoes, canning was also an important industry. Penn’s Grove was ideally situated,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Penns Grove, New Jersey, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress