by
Lois M. Stanley, Russell C. Shiveler Jr., Swedesboro-Woolwich Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
In the mid-1600s, a group of Swedes from Delaware and Pennsylvania sailed up the Raccoon Creek and began a settlement on prime farmland in southern New Jersey. Initially known as Raccoon, the town at the center of Woolwich Township was renamed Swedesborough in 1765. Transportation links to Swedesboro...