Egg Harbor Township History
www.ehthistory.org

  

Updated 6-8-2009

EHT Historical Society
 

Historical Society NewsletterClick here to learn more about the Society

Click here for Newsletter
Click Here for Newsletter

 
EHT Students
Create a Book
About EHT and
EHT's History
  
Click here to go to the Student Book web page.
 

See the
EHT Tercentennial
Plate Set from 1964

Click here to see all the plates

 

 
EHTHS Meeting Notice
Everyone is Welcome, Please Attend

Next meeting .......
Gregory Gregory Presents
"Life on the Great Egg Harbor River - Indians to Ospreys"

Time:  7:00 p.m.
Date:  Tuesday June 9

Where:  at Egg Harbor Township Branch Atlantic County Library
For a Map, Click on address -  Ocean Heights Avenue & Swift Drive

Also: Coming Attraction July - Different Location

Mayor Gary Giberson, Port Republic
"The Gift of Cedar trees and a Recent Local Storm"
Date: July 9, 2009
Timne: 7:00 PM
Where: At Zion Church Meeting Hall - Zion Road Bargaintown
Open to the public and free

"Egg Harbor Township 300th Anniversary Committee" Meeting: Thursday 7:00 P.M. [check back for date]

at EHT's branch of Atlantic County Library
Ocean Heights Avenue and Swift Drive
Where:  at Egg Harbor Township Branch Atlantic County Library
For a Map, Click on address -  Ocean Heights Avenue & Swift Drive

INFORMATION:
609-927-9096 or
e-mail EHT300th@aol.com

also ....

          Photographs of Egg Harbor Township landmarks, business and founding families are sought by the historical society, according to Beth Ryan. The historical society will be compiling a database for their new museum and library to be opened on West Jersey Avenue. For information about the program or museum collection efforts, call June Sheridan, president of the historical society, at 609-927-8314. All photos will be scanned and returned, according to Sheridan.

The Greate Egg Harbour Township Historical Society's "Paint Drive" is underway. Your $20 donation can provide a gallon of paint for the new historical society museum/library on West Jersey Avenue. For information about the society or the "Paint Drive" call 609-927-8314.

The History of Egg Harbor Township

The book - Sketches of Egg Harbor Township
   A complete history written in 1964 for our 300th
   anniversary, the Tercentenary. Click below, on the
   Introduction to get started.

  

Introduction

Forward

History of Bargaintown

History of Cardiff

History of English Creek

History of Farmington

Pleasantville Terrace Section
- 1910 Magazine Advertisement

History of McKee City

History of Scullville

History of Steelmanville

History of West Atlantic City

Shipbuilding Along the
Great Egg Harbor River

EHT's Early Schools

 EHT's Speedway from 1950-1979

"It is our hope that the children
of our school system may learn
from these pages and always be
aware of their heritage....."

Evelyn Ryon Collins

 

Historical Links to some
Local Towns
and to nearby Museums.

Linwood, NJ

Northfield, NJ ?

Somers Point, NJ

Mays Landing, NJ ?

Hammonton, NJ

Margate City, NJ

Lucy the Elephant

Pleasantville, NJ ?

Atlantic City
Historical Museum

Atlantic County
Historical Society

Atlantic County
County History

African American
Heritage Museum
of Southern New Jersey

The Noyes Museum of Art

Naval Air Station
Wildwood

The Millville
Army Air Field Museum

The New Jersey
State Museum

 

 

            More History about Egg Harbor Township
  
 This is a growing History Resource, Email something in.

EHT Origins by June G. Sheridan

Morris Beach, a Black Community in EHT

EHT's - Nordheim Flying K Airpark

Jeffers' Landing Target Area, WW-II 1942-1944
  Individual Interviews

1917 Letter: We took the trolley down as far as
    Bargaintown, where we get off for skating
...

Bio: Van Sant and Cook families of Bargaintown

History of Radio, Local and otherwise.

Radio Station WPG, EHT's Local Station of the 1920's

The History of Radio, written in 1922, by John Hogan
  

Early History of EHT and Atlantic County
by
Alfred M. Heston

Absegami: Annals of
Eyren Haven and Atlantic City

1609 to 1904 - Volume 1 and 2

Published 1904

.pdf File Size
3,421-kb
2,693-kb
2,781-kb
2,670-kb
1,126-kb
2,522-kb
3,156-kb

 

Dedicated to the memory of
John H. Dilks Sr. and Kathryn M. (Somers) Dilks who loved our local history.

John H. Dilks III and Family and Friends sponsor this History Web Site.
© John Dilks, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009