Carpenter's Landing, New Jersey

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.

[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] People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Carpenter's Landing include:

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