Six new sites in Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Virginia — including Gloucester County — were recently announced by the national trail as part of Black History Month.
WOODBURY — The century-old history of the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA, as told through uniforms, handbooks, photographs, yearbooks and other memorabilia, are currently on ...
— The Gloucester County Board of Chosen Freeholders is excited to announce an innovative project that will highlight Heritage Tourism in Gloucester County. By partnering with South Jersey Tourism ...
The Gloucester County Historical Society has been adding books to its collections since it was founded in 1903 — meaning it is long overdue for a clean out. "When (local historians) pass, they don't ...
GLOUCESTER — The Battle of the Hook. It sounds straight out of World War II or from the Civil War and General Sherman’s march to the sea. However, it is not from either war. It was a little-known ...
WOODBURY - A few years before Betsy Ross sewed the nation's first flag, she took a trip to South Jersey that got her disowned. The young Quaker, then known as Betsy Griscom, eloped with husband-to-be ...
GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. — A field currently used for sports competitions once served as another field—a field for battle in the American Revolution. The 1781 Battle of the Hook took place in ...
GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — On the Middle Peninsula, a small plot of land in the Guinea area will now officially be the home of birds, frogs and turtles. Seven acres in the Gloucester County known ...