Marshalltown, New Jersey

Marshalltown is an unincorporated community located within Mannington Township, in Salem County, New Jersey, United States.[1][2][3] It has also been known as Frogtown.[4]

Marshalltown, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
Church near Marshalltown Rd. and Roosevelt Ave.
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Coordinates: 39°38′15″N 75°27′12″W
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Salem
Township	Mannington
Elevation [1]	0.9 m (3 ft)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID	878149[1]

The community is centered at Marshalltown Road and Roosevelt Avenue, located 2.7 miles (4.3 km) southeast of Glenside and 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east-southeast of Pennsville.[5]

History

Located near the Salem River, Marshalltown was one of five pre-Civil War communities developed along tributaries of the Delaware River by freedmen.[6][7]

Before the abolition of slavery, these black-populated communities offered protection and aid to fugitive slaves, and "the likelihood that there was antebellum Underground Railroad activity is high".[6][7]

The settlement once contained many houses and gardens, a school, stores, and two churches. Mount Zion A.U.M.P. Church in Marshalltown is one of the earliest African Methodist churches.[8]

By 2010, only a school house, a church, and two cemeteries survived, and "isolation, theft, vandalism, and lack of historic preservation planning threaten the surviving cultural landscape of Marshalltown".[7]

References

1. Feature Detail Report for: Marshalltown, Geographic Names Information System. Accessed January 1, 2015.
2. Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed January 1, 2015.
3. Areas covering the point (-75.453333,39.6375), MapIt. Accessed January 1, 2015.
4. "West Jersey History Project - Booka - Place Names of Salem County N.J. by Josephine Jaquett and Elmer VanName". www.westjerseyhistory.org. Upper Penn's Neck Township. On Salem Creek, near Hawks' Bridge, on the farm of the late George H. Biddle. Quantities of tomatoes and other produce were carried from here thru the Canal to Wilmington and other points. This farm was later developed into the residential settlement known as Cedar Crest Manor.
5. N 39.6375 W 75.453333, ACME Mapper. Accessed January 1, 2015.
6. Calarco, Tom (2011). Places of the Underground Railroad: A Geographical Guide. ABC-CLIO. pp. 294, 295. ISBN 9780313381478.
7. Sheridan, Janet L. (October 30, 2010). "Survey and Documentation of Marshalltown, Mannington Township, Salem County, New Jersey" (PDF). Janet L. Sheridan. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 2, 2013.
8. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Zion