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GLOUCESTER CITY

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 132 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GLOUCESTER CITY , a city of Camden county, New
Jersey
 , U.S.A., on the
Delaware
  river, opposite Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 6564; (1900) 684o, of whom 1094 were foreign-born; (1905) 8055; (1910) 9462. The city is served by the West
Jersey
  & Seashore and the Atlantic City railways, and by ferry to Philadelphia, of which it is a residential suburb. Among its manufactures are incandescent gas-burners, rugs,
cotton
  yarns, boats and drills. The municipality owns and operates the water works. It was near the site of
Gloucester
  City that the Dutch in 1623 planted the short-lived colony of Fort Nassau, the first European
settlement
  on the
Delaware
  river, but it was not until after the arrival of English
Quakers
  on the Delaware, in 1677, that a permanent
settlement
 , at first called Axwamus, was established on the site of the present city. This was surveyed and laid out as a town in 1689. During the War of Independence the place was frequently occupied by troops, and a number of skirmishes were fought in its vicinity. The most noted of these was a successful attack upon a detachment of Hessians on the 25th of November 1777 by American troops under the command of General Lafayette. In 1868
Gloucester
  City was chartered as a city. In Camden county there is a township named GLOUCESTER (pop. in 1905, 2300), incorporated in 1798, and originally including the present township of Clemeriton and parts of the present townships of
Waterford
 , Union and
Winslow
 .


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