GHPCC - Glover Fulling Mill Traditional Cache
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GHPCC - Glover Fulling Mill
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This is one of the series of caches placed throughout Camden County to bring awareness to historical locations. Please be respectful of the area around the cache as nothing needs to be disturbed to find it.
John Glover, a master fuller and weaver who came from Bristol, Pennsylvania. He had been an experienced silk weaver in England. Glover owned the farm on the southside of the creek and a gristmill downstream, bought two acres on the north side of the creek and an additional acre within the creek bed on January 1, 1773, with the intention of building a fulling mill. The mill was completed in 1776. On July 24 of that year, Glover advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette for a journeyman fuller, “one that understands the business. One week later, Samuel Grown bought the adjacent house and apparently entered into the management of the fulling mill. Glover also acquired a narrow strip of land extending northerly from the mill, for use as a land to the King’s Highway (is this Glover Avenue?). Glover’s son, John Thorn Glover, took over the business in the early 1780’s. In 1775 he had inherited a tract of about 18 acres on the east side off the fulling mill land. In 1782, the younger Glover purchased the Breah Glover house from Brown, apparently at the same time replacing Brown in the business.
Betsy Ross was a customer of the Glover Mill and tradition says that the fabric for the American flag was processed at this mill. The mill was the site of a Revolutionary War skirmish with British General Cornwallis after the Battle of Red Bank in 1777.
It is recorded that the mill was destroyed by fire in 1822 and was rebuilt later in 1822. By 1830 there were 72 fulling mills in New Jersey but by 1850 the industrial revolution had begun and woolen mills had taken over the manufacture of cloth. After the Civil War the mill quietly passed out of production. The Glover Mill was torn down in 1917. A cannonball found embedded in the mill wall is located at the Haddon Heights Library.
The tail race, dam embankments and parts of the mill foundation are still visible from the lower path in the County Park adjacent to Kings Run.
The mill race location is visible extending southward to nearby King’s Run. The tailrace site is in a strip of land belonging to the CCPark
The archeological site was placed on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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