The acme magazine . sp>< The Q_Acme cJMagazine Vol. I. December, 1906. No. -2. OLD MANSIONS OF Photo by John H. Blackwood. 2 -WOODLAWN. By Fkancis Lee. ^$$«°N ;\tinu;as a11 stones ot olden days aresupposed to commence;what is now Warren, thenKing street, lost itself in themarsh land that skirted theAssanpink creek, then the houndary be-tween the old counties of Hunterdon andBurlington. Standing on the Queen(Broad) street bridge, the traveler onhis way from Philadelphia to NewYork, could discern amid the trees thatgrew on the hillside between himselfand the river,
The acme magazine . sp>< The Q_Acme cJMagazine Vol. I. December, 1906. No. -2. OLD MANSIONS OF Photo by John H. Blackwood. 2 -WOODLAWN. By Fkancis Lee. ^$$«°N ;\tinu;as a11 stones ot olden days aresupposed to commence;what is now Warren, thenKing street, lost itself in themarsh land that skirted theAssanpink creek, then the houndary be-tween the old counties of Hunterdon andBurlington. Standing on the Queen(Broad) street bridge, the traveler onhis way from Philadelphia to NewYork, could discern amid the trees thatgrew on the hillside between himselfand the river, a most stately by a winding drive. Thiswas Bloomsbury Court, which formany years after Chief Justice WilliamTrent purchased the tract has beenknown as Bloomsbury the Beautiful. (ireat changes have come since the death of Trent which occured in town of possibly two hundred inhab-itants has become a great city of ninetythousand people, even BloomsburyCourt has been altered to Wood-lawn. But with all the mutations,there is so much of the spirit of thepast in this, the beautiful an
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