In the late 1700's John Prickett owned several thousand acres of prime timberland in this area. To provide power to operate his sawmill, Prickett dammed Kettle Run. William Braddock in the 1860's established here an up-and-down sawmill, capable of cutting larger timbers. Charcoal used at the old Philadelphia Mint was made from oaks cut down in the Braddock's Mill area. 

Charcoaling

Charcoal is chunks of carbon made from wood by burning off the water, gasses, tars and resins. The collier constructed a charcoal pit above ground using four-foot long slabs of wood. To make the 8-to-10 foot tall mound nearly airtight, he covered it with sod and filled in the cracks with sand. The collier then lit a fire that burned slowly inside the pit for a week to ten days. When the pit collapsed and cooled, he raked the charcoal out and put it in bags. While tending the charcoal pit, the collier slept nearby in a crude shelter made of boards or of branches covered with leaves. Charcoal was the fuel used in the iron furnaces and forges at Aetna and Taunton.

North of the jug handle at Stokes and Jackson Roads Benjamin Thomas was granted a license in 1775 to keep one of the first taverns in our area at this hamlet, known then as Cross Keys and by 1859 called Fairview. A tavern was important in those early days as a center for exchanging news and holding meetings and as a resting place for weary travelers and their horses. At Cross Keys in 1847, Samuel Thackara founded a mill that crushed charcoal. Production of various degrees of fineness averaged 100 bushels per day. Pulverized charcoal was used in the making of gunpowder and whiskey and to polish brass and copper products. By the early 1900s most of the timberland in our area had been cut. The scarcity of wood for making charcoal contributed to the closing of the mill by Thackara's son shortly before World War I. Most of the village of Crosskeys/Fairview has been lost to development in recent years. 

Adonijah Peacock served the colonial government as a justice in the Court of Quarter Sessions and for seven years as deputy Surveyor-General. In 1759 he surveyed the land in Indian Mills that became Brotherton Reservation. A blacksmith by trade, Peacock had a farm here where he also operated his small one-man powder mill, attached to the fireplace in his kitchen. The Quartermaster of Washington's Army at Valley Forge sent Peacock a bad batch of black powder to be reprocessed and dried. Some-thing went wrong on that fateful day in January 1777. The explosion was heard at a distance of ten miles. Adonijah was killed, his house was destroyed and several of his family members were injured. 

This site was the beginning of navigation on the South West Branch of the Rancocas in the 1700's, when the creek was much deeper and wider than it is today. At this landing barges started their trips to Philadelphia and other large East Coast cities loaded with cargoes that included charcoal and products from the iron furnaces and the glassworks. Before there were roads to transport goods by wagon, it was very important that the waterways remained open. In order to hire men with teams of oxen to remove fallen logs and sunken barges from the creek, the Pioneer Navigation Act of 1768 ordered that tolls be collected. One shilling was charged for a raft of timber, two shillings for a barge of iron or charcoal and six pence for a raft of nails. 

Most of the settlers of Medford were members of the Religious Society of Friends. The honest and considerate treatment of the Lenape Indians by the Quakers was outstanding and their friendly relationships were a bright chapter in local history. Medford was known until 1874 as Upper Evesham. The first Quaker Meeting in Upper Evesham was established in 1759. The first Meeting House was built here in 1762. As it was in 1821, Union Fire Company was constructed on the site in 1821 by Barzilla Braddock and Shinn Oliphant. A 1969 replica built by the Medford Historical Society can be seen there now. 

The Nail House has been in three locations and it has served as a store, a smithy, a nail factory and a home. The building stood originally at the corner of Main Street and Friends Avenue. Before the American Revolution it had a small blacksmith shop with two forge fires where molded bullets for the Continental Army were later made. Mark Reeve owned the property in the early 1800s. He developed there the first machinery for the mass production of headed cut nails. It was operated by horse power. Later the Nail House was moved to Cherry Street. By the mid-1900s, the owner of the badly run-down building was Evelyn Belcher, a retired school teacher. She gave it to the late Dr. Edward Jennings with the agreement that it would be moved and restored by him. Circa 1955, he relocated it to Jennings Road and enlarged it to its present size. More about Mark Reeve: After visiting and admiring Medford, Massachusetts, he successfully promoted that name for our township. Reeve was also Medford's first real estate developer. Circa 1810, he purchased ninety-two acres of farmland, mapped out streets, divided the land and sold the first building lots in historic Medford Village.

In the bricks of the west wall of this beautifully restored farmhouse are 1785, the year it was built, and BW, the initials of the builder. The style and general features of the smaller east section of the house suggest that it is from an earlier date, probably the 1760s. The faÁade is Flemish bond decorated with a pattern of darker glazed brick. 

The Sandtown area contains several homes that date to the 1700's. Elizabeth Collins, a pioneer Quaker minister with the Union Street Friends Meeting, and her husband Job lived here circa 1775 in a house that is still occupied nearby. Because many generations of the Prickett family lived in this area, the hamlet was also known as Prickettown. Historic members of the family include: John Prickett, the first sawyer at Braddock's Mill; Nathan Prickett, a teacher at Brace Road School; another John Prickett, owner of the chair parts factory in Chairville; and Stacy Prickett, well-to-do owner of the Federal-style brick home at 23 Branch Street and proprietor of a general store on South Main Street.

The Christopher's Mill tract of several thousand acres was purchased in London in 1678 by William Hewlings. Power to operate a sawmill was provided by damming Barton's Run. A daughter of John Hewlings, a descendent of Willam, married John Merriman Christopher in 1821. Since then the property has been known as Christopher's Mill. Nothing remains today of the old dam, the sawmill and the sawyer's house. The present house was built in 1843 to replace an earlier home that had burned down.

Stokes Road, Medford Lakes Aetna furnace was built by Charles Read in 1766. It went into blast about a year earlier than its sister furnace and forge at Taunton. The 9000-acre site included a sawmill, a gristmill and a smithy. The financial collapse of Read's iron empire forced the furnace to close in 1773. The Aetna land was sold in 1926 to a developer and later it became Medford Lakes. Charles Read was born in Philadelphia in 1715. After finishing his education in London, he joined the British Navy and was sent to the West Indies. At age 22 he married the daughter of a wealthy merchant on the island of Antigua. Read and his bride settled in Burlington where he began a distinguished career in public office. By 1759 he was one of the most influential politicians of the Colonial Era. Charles Read's many accomplishments are recorded in Ploughs and Politicks, a 1941 biography by Carl Raymond Woodward. After his ironworks went bankrupt, Read lived from 1770 to 1773 with his son, Charles, Jr., in the ironmaster's house on Stokes Road in Medford Lakes. In the early 1950s the home was demolished and replaced by a gas station. Charles Read spent the final year of his life as a shop-keeper in Martinsburg, NC. He died there in 1774. Sadly, no members of Read's family attended the funeral when he was buried in North Carolina in an unmarked grave.

George Haines, M.D. was the first registered physician in Medford. He built this 2 story, five bay colonial-style home for his bride in 1826. The original house had two rooms on each floor with servants' quarters in the finished attic. At the north and south ends of the attic level there are fan shaped quarter windows. A detached summer kitchen with a storeroom also dated from 1826. At least two additions were made in the mid 1800's. There is still some original hardware in place and all the floors are original random-width New Jersey pine. An historic survey in the 1970's uncovered evidence that the home was used as a stop on the Underground Railroad.

This Haines farmhouse was built in several stages. The front with a Flemish Bond brick faÁade was the original part, built circa 1760 for Jonathan Haines. His grandson, also Jonathan, built the rear addition in 1820 and made other alterations such as the dormer windows in the front. The home remained in the Haines family until 1917. At one time this farm property included the entire north side of Union Street. Some lots were sold to outsiders and other lots were built upon by the many Haines children. Through the 1990s, the owners of this home were the late Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Tomlinson II. Many comments in this booklet are from notes that "Eph" made and shared with all who were interested in genealogy and the history of Medford.

This home from the early 1700s is said to be the oldest standing wooden frame dwelling in Medford Village. It faces south, a feature often found in early Quaker farmhouses. The 2 story, gable roofed house was built in two parts. The earlier west portion consists of a three bay, side hall plan. The four bay second section to the east extends the lines of the first portion. An Italianate veranda was added circa 1850. The home is on a large piece of land, including the land where the Public Safety Building is located. Before Route 70 was constructed in the 1930s, the cows from this farm grazed on Haines land that is now north of the highway. The Haines family sold the property to the Cochley's who farmed here during the 1960s. It was owned next by the Singer family and then by a local developer. In the 1990s this historic home was purchased by Medford Township. Plans are on the books to restore it for use as Senior Citizen housing.

This 2 story, 5 bay, center hall house is thought to have been the home of Mark Stratton who died in 1759, making it one of the earliest homes in Medford Village. It has a gabled slate roof and the faÁade features a Flemish bond brick pattern. Above the second floor is a single belt course of brick originally for a pent roof. Braddock's Insurance was here before it was sold and relocated to 22 North Main Street. This home was listed in 1982 by the Heritage Studies Survey as a Key Building, because of its value to the historical character of Medford Village.

The land on which this home was built was originally part of about 200 acres purchased in 1707 by Richard Braddock, who had recently arrived from England. The 2 story, five bay, center hall, gable roofed house was built in 1785 by shopkeeper, John Riley. It has a Flemish bond brick fade and a two-part belt course of bricks between the first and second floors. Mr. Riley died in 1814 and his son James rented the home to Benjamin Haines in 1832. Isaac Haines later purchased the property for $750. It was sold many times before Samuel Garwood became the owner in 1896. Three generations of the Garwood family lived here until J. Stanley Braddock, Jr., bought the property in 1960. He is a descendent of Richard Braddock, who originally owned the land two-and-a-half centuries earlier. It was designated a Key House in the 1982 Heritage Studies Survey of Medford Village.

This is a 2 story, six bay, gable roofed home in Greek Revival style. It was built in 1841. During the mid-1800's, the first floor was a general store run by William Dyer and William Braddock. They sold everything from salt pork to flints, cheese, mints, tobacco, garden tools, clothing, snuff, perfume and liquor. In 1838 coffee cost 13 cents a pound; sugar, 7 cents; and meat, 5 cents. Men's trousers or a pair of shoes could be bought for $1.00. In the 1870s, William Dyer owned the beverage license for Glover's Hotel, which was then the name of Braddock's Tavern. In 1999, a great-grandson of William Dyer and a great-granddaughter of Rebecca Coles Glover, the owner of Glover's Hotel, were both involved with the Medford Historic Advisory Board.

On January 25, 1813, this acre of land was purchased from Enoch and Hannah Stratton for $104 by the Township Committee of old Evesham. The committee members were John Jessup, John Borton, Job Collins, Jr., Joseph Haines and Joseph Evans. The deed stated that the land was to be used "for a public burying place for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the Township of Evesham and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." At the time of this purchase there were two Friends Burial Grounds in Evesham ≠ one on Union Street in Medford and the other on Hainesport Road in Mount Laurel, which back then was still part of old Evesham Township. Additionally, there was the Peacock Cemetery in Chairville. The late Ephraim Tomlinson II pointed out in his 1992 study of this cemetery that, if the deceased were not a Quaker or a Peacock, the only place a person could be buried was in a forgotten corner of the family farm. In 1813 this new Stratton Burying Ground solved that problem for many local families. When Medford was separated in 1847 from old Evesham Township, the cemetery became Medford property. At the suggestion of the Historic Advisory Board, the fencing at the cemetery was installed for Medford's Sesquicentennial Celebration in 1997.

This home was built by Ephraim Stratton between the late 1700s and 1830. Crossroads was then the social, political and business center of the original Evesham Township. Therefore, rather than being a farmhouse, the tollhouse is a saltbox-style home typical of a small town. It served for a time as a home for the toll collector on the turnpike between Medford and Lumberton. The building was restored in 1969 and is in very good condition.

The Society of Friends was split apart in 1827 by a theological controversy. Those Quakers who followed the beliefs of Elias Hicks built this Meeting House in 1842. The property included a burying ground to the north and to the south a one-room Quaker schoolhouse at 23 South Street. The school closed in 1907 and was converted to a private home in 1951. The brick on the main faÁade of the Meeting House is in the Flemish bond pattern and the rest is built of an eight course American design. The windows are six over six in the front and twelve over twelve on the rear wall. All the doors are double and the main entrances, one for men and one for women, have porches with very plain pedimented Greek Revival traces. The Medford Friends were reunited under one Yearly Meeting in 1955. As a result of the split, Haddonfield and Moorestown also had two Meeting Houses for many years.

This simply detailed, 1 story, three bay wide frame house with a shed roofed porch across the front was built in the late 1700s. It may have been a tenant house onthe Jonathan Haines farm. Jonathan was one of the men who petitioned the NewJersey Assembly for permission to build a dam, a gristmill and a sawmill on the land bordering the South Branch of the Rancocas Creek, "one end abutting on the land of the said Jonathan Haines." In 1778, the mill was completed and started operations. This building became the home of the sawmill foreman and therefore was called the Sawyer's House. Kirby's Mill was entered on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1971. The Sawyer's House, being part of the mill property, was included in the nomination, which was researched by the late Clyde LeVan.

From the 1690's to 1847, old Evesham Township was one of Burlington County's largest townships. It included: Upper Evesham (Medford); Lower Evesham (Mount Laurel); the southern portion of Lumberton known as Fostertown; part of Hainesport south of the Rancocas Creek; half of Shamong including Indian Mills; and Marlton, the only part of the old original Evesham Township still known by that name today. The seat of government of this huge township was at the hamlet of Crossroads located on the road to Mount Holly about one mile north of what is now Medford Village. At Crossroads there was a town hall, a store, a hotel and a cluster of other buildings, including the tollhouse. That area includes land in the shape of two triangles. One is bordered by Route 541, Wilkins Station Road and Church Road. The other is formed by Route 541, Church Road and Brace Boad, a quiet sand road until it was paved in 1997. The points of the two triangles touch at the main Crossroads intersection like the figure of an hourglass.

This home was built in 1908 by Aaron Darnell on a lot that he purchased for $630. Restrictions in the deed stated that "the said Aaron Darnell, his heirs and assigns are not to erect any building nearer than 60 feet to the center of N. Main Street and that there shall in reasonable time be erected a dwelling house costing not less than $2500." Albert and Anna Kirby lived here from 1925 to 1952. He was born in 1876, the oldest of nine children of William Kirby, who had purchased the Haines-Kirby's Mill property on Church Road in 1877.Albert Kirby and his eight siblings were raised in the"miller's house" across the street from the water-powered gristmill. He first attended Eastern School at the corner of Eayrestown and Church Roads, next the Filbert Street School and finally Peddie Institute in Hightstown. Albert learned the milling trade at Kirby's Mill. From 1920 to 1945, Albert operated Kirby Brothers feed store on North Main Street while his brother Charles W. ran the historic gristmill on Church Road. For many years Albert was Sunday School superintendent and a trustee at the Methodist Church. He headed the Medford Grange and the Masons and he was also president of the Medford Building and Loan.

Joseph H. Haines paid $976 in 1911 for adjacent lots on which he had identical houses built for his twin sons, Maurice and Everett. They worked in the family business, J. Haines and Sons, on Tidswell Avenue where coal, lumber, trucks, tractors and farm supplies were sold. Unable to tell the twins apart, customers called both of them "Maurice-Everett." Maurice and Jeanette Haines lived in this home from 1911 to 1974. He was the chief from 1916 to 1924 of Union Fire Company and the treasurer from 1928 to 1929. He served on the Medford Township Committee and as the mayor. Jeanette Haines was a highly regarded Quaker minister and First Day School teacher at the Union Street Friends Meeting. The identical homes of the Haines brothers

Everett Haines lived in this home from 1911 until his death in 1965. A common driveway was shared with his twin, Maurice, who lived in the identical house next door. Active in community and civic affairs, Everett was a Boy Scout leader and an original director in 1905 of Camp Ockanickon. He was president of Union Fire Company in 1917 and secretary from 1918 to 1921 and he served as a director of the Medford Building and Loan. The Haines brothers were honored in 1961 when the Maurice and Everett Haines School on Stokes Road was named for them.

This center hall, five bay, Greek Revival-style brick home was built in 1844 by Dr. Henry P. Ely. The two-sided mansard roof has three dormers, each with an individual arched roof. The front entrance has a three bay, one story porch with columns and a similar two bay porch is on the south wall. The 1982 Heritage Studies Survey states that this well maintained and landscaped house is a landmark presence in Medford Village. Henry Ely practiced medicine with Dr. Josiah Reeve, who lived two properties away at 50 North Main Street. Henry's wife, Mary Reeve Ely, was Josiah's aunt. After Mary Ely was widowed, Josiah Reeve built for her the large Victorian home at 66 North Main.

Albert Ballinger was a lifelong resident of Medford. He is remembered as a paperhanger by trade. Albert and his wife, Belle, built this Sears Roebuck house in 1911. It is original, except that the front porch was enclosed in the early 1920s. For $950 Sears Roebuck provided pre-cut lumber, flooring, and woodwork; nails and hardware; plumbing and heating; light fixtures, wavy window glass and several panes of stained "art glass"; built-in sideboard, pantry and medicine case; a barrel of stain for the cedar siding and more. All materials were shipped from the Midwest on two freight cars on the railroad line that ran through Mount Holly to Medford from 1869 until 1976. Including labor, the total cost to build this home in 1911 was just under $2100. It is the only Sears Roebuck house in Medford Township.

This three-story, five-bay, frame hotel with a flat roof was constructed by Richard Reeve in 1810. Tavern operator, Samuel Hartman, chose the name because it was built on the site of a lodge of a Lenape chief. After two railroad lines came to Medford in 1869 And 1889, the hotel served large numbers of patrons ≠ Including hunters in season, vacationers and traveling salesmen, known then as "drummers." Stables and carriage sheds behind the tavern were torn down when cars came into common use in the 1920s. During Prohibition the hotel was closed and sold. In recent times the property was renamed the Stagecoach Stop. It was renovated by Frank Salicondro and now is used as a restaurant and shops.

This 1875 Gothic Revival-style, one and a half story church was used for worship services until 1958. The building's exterior is board and batten. The bell tower on the north side has a tall steeple with fishscale slate roof shingles. The lancet windows on the first level are made of stained glass. A rose window decorated with radiating rose-like tracery is in the upper west wall. On the occasion of his donation of an organ in 1898, John Wanamaker, the well-known Philadelphia clothier, came to Medford to speak to the congregation. The exterior was not changed when the building served as chiropratic offices for the late Doctor A. H. Scheibner from 1959 to 1992. Recent renovations by his daughter have transformed the former church into a charming residence. They include an addition in the late 1990s of a handmade, circular oak staircase leading up to the second floor.

This three bay brick home with a two story front porch and two dormers was built by Isaac Stokes circa 1813. Part of the upper level of the porch has been made into a sunroom. Careful restoration was completed in the year 2000, including expert cleaning and repointing of the Flemish bond brickwork.

Owen Stratton, a Quaker, was born on his family's farm south of Medford Village in 1769. He purchased this 2 story, gable roofed, frame home circa 1835 in order to be closer to the Friends Meeting House on Union Street. The home has five bays with a center door on the first floor and three bays on the second level.

This large farmhouse was built circa 1840. Dr. Braddock became the owner in 1875. He practiced medicine here for the next 25 years. The 1880 census lists four persons in his household: Richard Braddock, 26, Physician; Emma F., 23, Wife, Keeping House; Chas. H. Bishop, 18, Laborer; and Sarah Stockton, 16, Servant. After Emma's death at age 27 in 1884, he married Eva S. Braddock. In 1883 the doctor was the president of Union Telegraph Company. He served in 1897 as the president of Union Fire Company and as the chief from 1899 to 1901. James and Mary Harriett of Brooklyn, NY, purchased the property in 1908 for $2150. The home was divided into a duplex after World War I. A Harriett descendent sold it in the year 2000. Restorations include conversion back to a single dwelling. In the near future the front porch will be rebuilt as it appears in a photograph from the 1890s.

This late Victorian house was built by Joseph Allen in 1896 on a lot purchased from Mark Reeve, Medford's first realtor. It was the first home in Medford to have indoor plumbing and a bathroom. Other conveniences were a sewing room and a dumbwaiter from the dining room to the bedroom above. An interesting restriction in the deed reads: "Joseph C. Allen has the privilege of using the alley in the rear leading from Cedar Street, upon the condition that said J. Allen is to close the gate coming to and from said lot." When the building was renovated for a funeral home in 1957, care was taken to maintain its historical integrity. All furnishings on the first floor are Victorian antiques, including Mr. Allen's desk which was made in Philadelphia in 1896, the same year the house was built.

Joseph Bowker built his 2-_ story Queen Anne-style home in 1876 on a lot for which he paid $300. The exterior is clapboard at the first level with fishscale shaped shingles above. A two story bay window is located on the left side of the front and a three-story tower is on the north wall. In the early 1900's Bertha Weeks, principal of a school in Collingswood, lived here with her sister, Sadie Bowker. After having been widowed, Mrs. Bowker usually had several railroad workers and school teachers boarding with her. Eleanor Rush was a boarder here in 1916 during her first year of teaching at the one-room Brace Road School. Each day Miss Rush walked 1_ miles to the school at the corner of Church and Ark Roads. That year on Valentine's Day it snowed so hard that the schoolhouse door was blocked by drifts. At the end of the day Miss Rush had to jump out through a window. This 2 story Victorian house was built by Dr. Josiah Reeve in 1876. He practiced medicine with his uncle, Dr. Henry P. Ely, who lived two doors south in Ely Hall, the large brick house at the corner of Main and Cedar Streets. W. Roland Dunn of Palmyra was the first dentist in Medford. He came to town on Monday and Wednesday of each week. From the 1930s to the mid 1950s, Doctor Dunn rented an office and a waiting room in this home at 50 North Main Street. The lady of the house, Mrs. Helen Kirby, took phone calls and scheduled appointments for his patients.

In the late 1700's John Prickett owned several thousand acres of prime timberland in this area. To provide power to operate his sawmill, Prickett dammed Kettle Run. William Braddock in the 1860's established here an up-and-down sawmill, capable of cutting larger timbers. Charcoal used at the old Philadelphia Mint was made from oaks cut down in the Braddock's Mill area. 

Built circa 1860, this 2 story, five bay, central hall Victorian home was originally a single residence. Later it was divided into a two-family dwelling. Milton H. Allen and his former teacher, Joseph Jones, used the house in the early 1870s as a private boarding school. Taken over in 1874 by the trustees of the newly formed school district, it served briefly as Medford's first fully free public school. Enrollment soon outgrew the building and the students were moved to the Grange Hall on Bank Street until the Filbert Street School opened in September 1876

Prickett's Express operated from the living room of this home between 1925 and 1950. When passenger service on the Mount Holly to Medford train was discontinued in 1926, Granville and Bill Prickett bought two buses to transport Medford's teenagers to Mount Holly High School.

Dating from circa 1815, this small home of saltbox design was the first house on Branch Street. It was built by Henry Stackhouse for his son, Harry. their homes on Branch Street constructed by members of the Stackhouse family are #41, a duplex at #43-#45 and #68, a dwelling built circa 1870 by Benjamin Stackhouse for his son, Henry.

Although written records for this graveyard were not kept in the early days, interments are thought to have started in the 1820s. The oldest legible marker, that of Achsail Conner, is dated 1836. Several ministers of the adjacent Methodist Episcopal Church are buried here, the earliest being Reverend James Moore who died in 1842. Many plots in this cemetery belong to historic Medford families. Among them are plots of the Allen, Bowker, Braddock, Foster, Kirby, Kirkbride, Oliphant, Peacock, Prickett and Stackhouse families.

Four of the Ten Houses on Trimble Street The 22 workers' houses on Trimble and Mill Streets included 2 story duplexes, 2 story singles and 1 story cottages. Corner fireplaces provided heat and water was carried from two outdoor hand pumps. Candles were used or light, rather than kerosene lamps that attracted bugs from nearby swamps - now Medford Park. Records from the late 1800s show that monthly rent was $1.50 for a house on Mill Street and $5.00 to $6.00 for a house on Trimble.

The original Oliphant farmhouse was built near Oliphant's sawmill between 1810 and 1815. During the Revolutionary War, Captain Jonathan Oliphant's cavalry pastured their horses here on the mill property. The Oliphant Tract of over 3600 acres was reduced to 250 acres in 1902 and became known as Sunny Jim farm.

In the 1920's Lake Pine was called "Spirit Vale" from the mist that rose off the surface of the water early in the morning. A deed conveyed the land to a development company in 1924. The cranberry bogs were dredged to make a mile-long lake. A bathhouse was provided for swimmers and boaters. Building lots were sold and the construction of log cabins for summer residents began. Medford Township improved Taunton Road from a sandy surface to gravel in 1926. Many cabins were winterized during the 1950s and Lake Pine became a year-round community.

In the 1790s Jonathan Peacock's sawmill was in operation here. By the 1840s a two-story turning mill with steam powered lathes was making legs, rungs and spindles from maple trees cut in the area. The chair parts were carted to Philadelphia to be assembled. Near the factory were owner John Prickett's farm, the worker's houses and two general stores. The chair parts factory burned down in 1874. No traces remain of the sawmill, which closed circa 1890. Chairville School operated here until 1900. It was the first of the Township's four rural one-room schools to close. The school district provided a horse-drawn wagon to transport children from Chairville to the Filbert Street School. Methodist services were held in a chapel built in 1897 at the corner of Route 70 and Chairville Road. Circa 1905 the Chairville Sunday School Class donated a stained glass window with a Lamb of God motif to the Methodist Church on Branch Street. That window remains today on the second level of the faÁade of the church. In the 1920s the chapel was sold and converted to a summer home. It has been occupied in recent years by several small businesses.

Southwest corner of Church and Eayrestown Roads Eastern School was established in the 1800s by the Upper Evesham Friends Meeting located on Union Street. The teacher in 1846 was Joseph Jones and Milton H. Allen was his prize student. When Professor Jones resigned in 1854, Milton Allen became the teacher at 16, the same age as some of his oldest students. In addition to teaching, Milton had to tend the fire in the cast iron stove, provide the firewood and arrange for water to be carried from a nearby farm. In 1901, Eastern School was sold for $85 and removed to an another location. The original one-room Kirby's Mill School was then built on the very same site. Kirby's Mill School was operated by the Medford Public School District. Each year the District paid $10.00 ground rent to the Union Street Friends Meeting. Kirby's Mill School was closed in 1918 and moved to a farm farther east on Church Road for use as tenant house. It burned down late one night in the winter of 1948.

Corner of Church and Ark Roads The earliest of Medford's rural one-room schools was Brace Road School. Nathan Prickett was the teacher when James Still, later known as the "Black Doctor of the Pines," attended here for three months during the winter of 1832. Helen Johnson was a student at Brace Road School in the early 1900s. She wrote that it was "a drab, curtainless room with whitewashed walls, no maps, one or two reference books, a closet for storage of such texts as were available and another closet for storage of lunch boxes. The entrance room provided hooks for coats and caps and the bench for the drinking system - a bucket of water and a dipper." The exterior of the building was painted gray. Two little outhouses, one for boys and the other for girls, were located inconspicuously in the back.

Jerome Jennings' cranberry packing house, originally a two-story building, was built circa 1870. Empty barrels were stored upstairs before the second level was removed. Jennings' family tradition is that Charles Street was named by Jerome Jennings for one of his sons. Renovations to the building were made by the township in the late 1960s. Ten oak pews used for seating were donated by a fire-damaged church in Pointville near Fort Dix. Medford's Municipal Court and Township Council Meetings were held here until 1993.

The original portion of this 2 story, two bay clapboard home was built in 1842 by Mahlon Reeve. It was purchased in 1874, by the Mickle family. A bay window, the first of several additions, was added onto the south side in 1875. The front porch with Italianate detailing was probably added at that same time. The interior features a 1909 oak staircase. Everett Mickle bought the home from his grandmother in 1955. His love of Medford history resulted in preservation of a large collection of old photos, negatives and postcards. Copies are displayed in many public building in the area.

This is a side hall, three bay home of Georgian Vernacular style with a semicircular fanlight above the front door. Built in 1827 by Jacob and Mary Prickett, it is considered to be a well preserved example of an early village type residence. The home is reported to have a resident ghost. For years the bricks were painted white. Recently restored, the Flemish bond faÁade can once again be appreciated.

This 2 story home was built circa 1847 for a woman named Mary Smith. Consisting originally of three rooms, one above the other, it was known as "The Doll House." Old English woodwork trim in the living room, wide pine floors and corner fireplaces in the living room and the bedroom above are original. In 1961, the 1 story addition was built onto the west side of the house by the late owner, Jay Grooms. It blends well with the style of the original architecture.

Unlike many other 1800s glassworks, Star Glass did not print its own paper money known as scrip. Instead, the workers had to buy books of credit worth $1.00, $5.00 and $10.00. They could be used only to buy food and household goods at the company store. This system virtually controlled the workers' lives, often causing labor unrest and the threat of a strike.

Mill Street Farmer and charcoal producer, Samuel Thackara, hired his brother-in-law, Lester Gager, in 1857 to build the one-room Cross Keys School. Lumber for the 26-foot deep by 22-foot wide building cost $9.00. For more than a century Cross Keys School was located at the corner of Dixontown and Stokes Roads. Several generations of Gager children knew the Cross Keys School as the "Knowledge Box." In 1912 the salary of Sallie Davis, their favorite teacher, was $35 per month. When the school was closed in 1927, the students went to the new Milton H. Allen School. Before McDonald's bought the property in 1976, the structure had been used as a home, a store and a produce stand. When the public showed strong interest in saving it, the Township had the little school moved to Mill Street. By then the windows were boarded up and it had no roof.

This 2 story, three bay, center hall farmhouse was built for John Peacock in the 1790s. John was the son of Adonijah, who died nearby in a black powder explosion in 1777. For more than two centuries this homestead has been in continuous use for agricultural purposes. Several generations of the Adams family have owned the property for more than a century. Currently Flora Lea farm is a busy year-round equestrian center.