Gouldtown, New Jersey

Gouldtown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place[5] (CDP) in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

It is in the northwestern part of the county, in the northeast part of Fairfield Township, and it is bordered to the west by the city of Bridgeton, the county seat.

New Jersey Route 49 runs through the community, leading east 8 miles (13 km) to Millville and west through Bridgeton 19 miles (31 km) to Salem.

[4] Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church, organized in 1818, current building constructed in 1860, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[10] People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Gouldtown include: Gouldtown, a Very Remarkable Settlement of Ancient Date: Studies of Some Sturdy Examples of the Simple Life, Together with Sketches of Early Colonial History of Cumberland County and Southern New Jersey and Some Early Genealogical Records originally published in some for in 1913 in and published in 1923 Theophilus Gould Steward and William Steward.

Map of New Jersey highlighting Cumberland County