North Camden once contained Revolutionary War defenses : COOPER’S HILL. - That part of Camden known as Cooper’s Hill as applied to the ground then, rising from a marsh west of Fourth Street and south of Bridge Avenue, forming a knoll : Within the limits of what is known as Cooper’s Hill were formerly pond : This pond is said, by one of the boys who used to play there, Benjamin Farrow, to be where now stand the dwellings of the late John H. Jones and Jesse W. Starr. He says there were two ponds, one called the wet pond and the other the dry pond, and that they were made in the time of the Revolution by the erection of redoubts. CAMDENS REDOUBT MAY HAVE LOOKED SIMILAR TO THIS PHOTO BELOW .
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:15:19 +0000
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