. The Daily union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and County . HON. RICHARD J. BYRNES. I STORY OI AMMOXTO: transactions, cxtcndino- dvlt nearly two Innidrcil years, from 1(1^4 tocan remember seeing, nearly forty years a,e:o, the rotting piling, tlu hnsheds and the unquestionable remains of the white mans abode on theHarbor road, where it crosses the head of the lake, and where tratlitithe oldest inhabitants home; but be it true or false, the Irishmanand the whiskey remains. There were many houses in and arounionton
. The Daily union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and County . HON. RICHARD J. BYRNES. I STORY OI AMMOXTO: transactions, cxtcndino- dvlt nearly two Innidrcil years, from 1(1^4 tocan remember seeing, nearly forty years a,e:o, the rotting piling, tlu hnsheds and the unquestionable remains of the white mans abode on theHarbor road, where it crosses the head of the lake, and where tratlitithe oldest inhabitants home; but be it true or false, the Irishmanand the whiskey remains. There were many houses in and arounionton previous to 1850, but the wheel of the old mill at the lakeWilliam Cofifin in 1812, had ceased to turn: the furnace fires of the glaIniilt by the same enterprising descendant of the Xantucket Yankee,out: the rotten posts and crumbling stones of their foundations aloneover which the lizards ran or warmed themselves in the noon-day sun 1844. 1 .,ken , ot- ( ) 1 -Rg on 1)1; ces has g ine nd il: un- . built by iss wo •ks. had g me remaii ed. A I lile cars. ID J. BYRNES RESIDENCE of sunshine and storm, told on their crumbling head-stones the abbreviated his-tory of those who broke the primeval wilderness into fields of plenty, and whoreared the temple to the God in whose bosom they long had laid at rest. Onthis foundation, and with the blessing which nature abundantly showered uponthem, the pioneers of 1850 built up the thriving village of to-day, labored andstruggled that their children and childrens children might enjoy the fruit oftheir industry, nourished by their brawn and watered by the sweat of their of them, too, have passed away, but their works and memories remain. To Judge Richard J- Byrnes, more than to any other individual, is due thesuccess and growth of Hanmionton, from 1856, when as a young Philailelphia
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