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Mansfield Township History |
MANSFIELD TOWNSHIP - was named after an English town on the border
of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England. Evidence of this is
that the township is on the opposite side of Crosswicks Creek which
was once called Nottingham.
The following are some interesting historical facts about the
township.
1676 - Concessions and Agreements Signed, and in 1688, Mansfield
Township was established as a Constabulry;
2/21/1798 Mansfield Township was Incorporated.
1850 - Fieldsborough separated from Mansfield Township and made into
a borough;
1852 - Bordentown Township formed from Mansfield Township (includes
Newbold Island;
1872 - Florence township formed from Mansfield Township.
POST OFFICES - Georgetown (Foolstown) 1847-1918; Columbus
Encroaching Corners, Encroaching Town, Black Horse - P.O. 1806)
Columbus 1827; Hedding (Three Tons) no P.O.; Kindora (Quindora)
1873-1887
FIRST FAMILIES - 1677 - Michael Newbold (800 acres; area of Keeler
Oak); 1678 - Wm. Biddle (area of Kindora); 1677 William Black
(Rising Sun area & east); 1678 Michael Buffin - Columbus light to
Rising Sun; 1680 Percival Towle (between Petticoat Bridge Road &
Jacsonville Road) Thomas Barton 100 acres & Jonathan Barton 800
acres; John Curtis 1684 347 acres (Mt. Pleasant); 1689 Thomas &
Joseph Scattergood (500 acres - Thomas first family in Columbus - on
South side of Crafts Creek); William Ellis 1689 - 460 acres - Mt.
Pleasant area; 1693 - Richard French - Mt. Pleasant area; 1699 -
Caleb Shreve - 325 acres - Mt. Pleasant area.
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OLD HOUSES in the Township include
This remarkably
well preserved and little altered farm complex remained, through
inheritance or purchase, in the hands of one family from the time it
was built in 1740 until 1975. The older section of the house is one
of a group of brick residences erected by members of the Newbold
family in Springfield and Mansfield Townships. All have the initials
of their first owners and dates of construction worked in glazed
headers in the gable. All exhibit similar characteristics in plan,
including corner fireplaces, open stairs, and two to three-room
first floor plans. Their designs relate to recommendations of
William Penn and to typical modest houses erected in London after
the Great Fire of 1666.
OLDEST HOUSES - James McIntyre - West Main, built in late 1600's;
Walter Bowne's on Georgetown Road, dated 1740 B & S N; Richard
Wedell's on Mt. Pleasant Road dated 1742, build by Benjamin Shreve;
John Cook's house on Georgetown Road dated 1764, built by Newbold;
Walter Reeder's on Mt. Pleasant Road, est. Date 1810, built by
Brognard, home of Prince Murat 1827 - 1828; Columbus Inn dated 1812,
owned by Herb Lovendusky; Amos Keeler's 1849, built for Amos III -
Keeler Oak is over 300 years old; Keeler Farm has been in the same
family for farming 200 years.; William Biddle's Home "Mt. Hope"
still stands on the buff overlooking the Delaware River in Kinkora
(not dated).
Mansfield Township Municipal Complex
24548 East Main Street, P.O. Box 249
Columbus, NJ 08022
Phone: 609-298-0542
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