Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs . ys historic places; for a numberof years the home of Admiral Charles Stewart, Old Ironsidesof the United States navy, on whose estate dwelt themother of the Irish leader, Charles Stewart Parnell. ToBordentown came, in 1816, Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king ofNaples and Spain, to live as Comte de Survilliers after hisdethronement. He occupied a mansion that is still standing,though in a dilapidated condition. Another famous residentof Bordentown was Prince Murat, nephew of Napoleon andJoseph, a son of Prince Joachim Murat, King of the Sicilies
Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs . ys historic places; for a numberof years the home of Admiral Charles Stewart, Old Ironsidesof the United States navy, on whose estate dwelt themother of the Irish leader, Charles Stewart Parnell. ToBordentown came, in 1816, Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king ofNaples and Spain, to live as Comte de Survilliers after hisdethronement. He occupied a mansion that is still standing,though in a dilapidated condition. Another famous residentof Bordentown was Prince Murat, nephew of Napoleon andJoseph, a son of Prince Joachim Murat, King of the by train or trolley from ft. Market St. and by boatfrom ft. Chestnut St. Gloucester, N. J., (4 miles from Camden), a city of about10,000 inhabitants, famed for the quality of its plankedshad, a delicacy which epicureans love, and which bringsthousands to Gloucester every season. At Gloucester is thelargest shad fishery on the river, and, when this toothsomefish is on its annual journey to the spawning grounds, 120 RAND McNALLY PHILADELPHIA GUIDE. N. E. Manual Training School N. 8th Street and Lehigh Ave. Page 84 multitudes go purposelyto Gloucester to witnessthe hauling in of thehuge seine, the largestof the kind in the Unit-ed States. During themonth of May and thefirst two weeks in June,the United States FishCommissioners steam-er, Fish Hawk, usu-ally anchors at Glouces-ter, for the purpose ofhatching shad eggs to bedeposited in the to this vessel is free, and her apparatus and methodsare interesting. Reached by rail from ft. Market and ft. Chest-nut Sts., and by ferry from ft. South St., Philadelphia. Red Bank, N. J., just below Gloucester, once well patron-ized as a summer resort, but now best remembered as aRevolutionary battle ground, where, on October 21, 1777, aBriiish force of 1,200 Hessians, under Count Donop, wasrepulsed with great loss by the American garrison of FortMercer. The old earthworks can still be traced and, a marblemonument marks
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