Churchtown, New Jersey
Churchtown, historically known as Penns Neck, is an unincorporated community located north of Pennsville in Pennsville Township, Salem County, New Jersey. St. George's Episcopal Church was started here in 1714 by Swedish and Finnish settlers as a Lutheran church.
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St. George's, Penns Neck, N.J.
Illustration from 1903
See also
- Trinity Church (Swedesboro, New Jersey) – Swedish Lutheran church at Raccoon
References
- ^ "Churchtown". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior., Variant name: Penns Neck
- ^ "Locality Search". State of New Jersey.
- ^ "St. George's Episcopal Church: Our History". St. George's Episcopal Church.
- ^ Greenagel, Frank L. (2001). "Saint George's Episcopal Church, Churchtown, Salem County". The New Jersey Churchscape.
the Swedish and nearby Finnish settlers organized a Lutheran church here in 1714
External links
- Johnson, Amandus (1938). The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck, 1713-1786. OCLC 866217276.
Raccoon Creek is now Swedesboro and Penns Neck is now Churchtown