. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. ^)t, in the north-west corner of this township,hiis for a long time been known as a flourishing place, distin-guished for the wealth and enterprise of its inhabitants. {Seepage 370). CENTEAL NEW 529. Viczo in the central part of Manchester. Manchester is a township recently oro:anized, tlie central partof which is 7 miles from Toms Kiver, the countj seat. Popnla-tion, in 1865, was 1,054. The annexed view shows the Man-chester station on the Earitan and Delaware Eailway, 57 milesfrom Xew York, as seen loo
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. ^)t, in the north-west corner of this township,hiis for a long time been known as a flourishing place, distin-guished for the wealth and enterprise of its inhabitants. {Seepage 370). CENTEAL NEW 529. Viczo in the central part of Manchester. Manchester is a township recently oro:anized, tlie central partof which is 7 miles from Toms Kiver, the countj seat. Popnla-tion, in 1865, was 1,054. The annexed view shows the Man-chester station on the Earitan and Delaware Eailway, 57 milesfrom Xew York, as seen looking south. The village at presentis one of railroad workshops, with neat cottage residences for theworkmen, a church and school house, two or three stores, and asmany taverns. In the central part is seen in the distance therailroad train coming from Philadelphia, on the left, the branchrailroad for Toms Eiver, connecting at this point. The villageis smrounded by a forest—an unsubdued native wilderness— onlybroken here and there by a few little openings. The Manchester tract (says the agricultural editor of the]Sr. Y. Tribune), embraces 25,000 acres, upon which the art ofthe husbandman has never been exercised—adjoining it on thenorth is the Bergen Iron Works tract of 15,000
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