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By Robert W. Sands Jr.,Barbara L. Turner

Woodbury possesses a wealthy history that reads just like the tale of the USA. proven in 1683 by means of Quakers looking spiritual freedom, the group used to be occupied for 3 days through British troops below Gen. Charles Cornwallis throughout the innovative conflict. In 1787, Woodbury turned the county seat of Gloucester County, and it continues to be so that you could this present day. It was once domestic to Capt. James Lawrence, who coined the word "Don't hand over the send" through the conflict of 1812. Woodbury gains perspectives of the lavish houses equipped via well-known citizens, scenes of the 1904 teach spoil, and never-before-published pictures of the vast road enterprise district within the mid-1900s.

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