![]() ![]() in 1808 he donated one acre and five perches to the friends for the little red schoolhouse ground. in 1799 he donated a half acre of land to the friends for their meeting house. On masamuel tonkin bought the house at 522 kings highway from the heirs of bodo otto. the current friends meetinghouse was built in 1799 on land donated by samuel mickle and samuel tompkin. the original friends meeting house in "upper greenwich" was about two miles below the site of the present one, and was called solomon's meeting after solomon lippincott on whose land the friends first met. in 1697 they purchased 510 acres on the east bank of the delaware, extending eastward to coopers creek. they emigrated to the united states in 1682. they had been members of lisbon friends meeting in ireland. the original mickles were archibald and sarah watts mickle. his ancestors came to america in the same year that william penn arrived. Samuel mickle was a local resident said to be a very public spirited citizen. mickleton park, dedicated to honor laura getsinger is also located here. Solomon's graveyard, the friends meeting house, and the little red school house, and haines pork shop are located in mickleton. ![]() mickle ogden standing by the construction and decided to call the town mickleton. a local legend reports that the railroad men saw storekeeper s. one source says that after considerable discussion the railroad company named the station mickleton in honor of the mickle family. railroad authorities objected to the name as there was another town named greenwich nearby. Mickleton was known as "upper greenwich" from about 1756 until 1868 when the swedesboro branch west jersey railroad was built. a skirmish, called the battle of saunders run took place near his home in mickleton in 1778. this land seems to be near the former home of arthur sherman, on rattling run road.Ĭolonel bodo otto, jr., a revolutionary war physician under general george washington lived here. In 1759 a survey of land to william harrison was part of a previous survey of the west new jersey societies called indian town tract. this land surrounded the house at 828 kings highway. about 1696 thomas gardiner surveyed 600 acres on one of the northly branches of homan's creek south of stephen jones "lynd" for samuel harrison, a mariner in gloucester town. this land surrounds the house at 622 kings highway. On manicholas young, sawyer, late of burlington, received 100 acres of land from thomas scholey of ony-onickhon, west jersey. native american darts of fine flint, and stone axes with the grooves worked around them had been found near the old "carter's farm" on cedar road. the occupants resided there for a long time and were peaceable. scott in "east greenwich township centennial-1881 to 1981," tradition says that at the entrance of still run with homan's creek was a point of land with a cluster of native american wigwams. Liz Ronk edited this gallery for, mickleton is considered roughly that section of east greenwich township south of the source of the nehonsey creek. Here, heads to the White Mountains, and the deceptively small peak with the huge reputation as a place where very, very bad weather is born. The brutal weather, meanwhile, “can cause a jet engine to ice up in 20 seconds” and “builds up rime ice so quickly the process can almost be seen by the naked eye.” Washington is continuously ripped by shrieking winds, the 1934 blow of 231 mph makes the average 75-mile gale seem mild.” Standing at the focal point of a natural wind tunnel, Mt. In March 1953, LIFE magazine published a feature, with pictures by the intrepid Peter Stackpole, chronicling the work of a military and civilian team atop the “windiest spot in the U.S.” a team that, in winter, turned “the 6,288-foot mountain into a gigantic laboratory for defense department experiments into jet age techniques of warfare and survival. Washington Observatory weather station? “Home of the World’s Worst Weather,” and whether or not the claim is quantifiable, it’s nevertheless unlikely that any other place on earth with comparably forbidding conditions is as readily accessible, or sees as many people each year, as the fabled peak. ![]() Washington’s weather is a source of wonderment. (That record was surpassed in 1996 by a confirmed 253 mph gust on Barrow Island, Australia, during Tropical Cyclone Olivia.) That a peak just over a mile high in the relatively cozy confines of New England should be home to some of the planet’s most erratic and violent weather strikes many people as astonishing.įor meteorologists, meanwhile-and hikers and campers who have suffered its extreme mood swings- Mt. Washington was the site of the highest wind speed ever measured at the Earth’s surface-a 231 mph gust recorded in April 1934. For much of the 20th century, the summit of New Hampshire’s 6,200-foot Mt.
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