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== History == [[File:Solomon Wesley UMC NJ.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Solomon Wesley United Methodist Church]], listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]]] Blackwood, originally known as Blackwoodtown, was settled about 1750 by John Blackwood in an area then known as "head of Timber Creek." Blackwood was a [[fulling|fuller]] who immigrated from [[Scotland]] and established mills in Blackwoodtown.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=c05VAAAAMAAJ&dq=John+Blackwood+blackwoodtown&pg=PA526 The book of John Howell & his descendants, by Frances Howell]</ref> The area was a [[crossroads village]] along the [[Black Horse Pike]] well into the nineteenth century, that served as a local government and transportation center by the 1830s, when Uriah Norcross established a stage coach line between [[Camden, New Jersey|Camden]] and [[Woodbury, New Jersey|Woodbury]] with a stop at a [[tavern]] in Blackwoodtown. The arrival of the [[Atlantic City Railroad#Camden County Railroad|Camden County Railroad]] in 1891 led to further development.<ref>[http://njpostalhistory.org/media/archive/055-nov83njph.pdf New Jersey Postal History Society]</ref><ref>[http://www.livingplaces.com/NJ/Camden_County/Gloucester_Township/Blackwood_Historic_District.html Blackwood Historic District, Living Places]</ref> Blackwood Lake operated as a summer resort from 1891 until 1932.<ref>[http://archive.courierpostonline.com/article/20061019/SPECIAL20/610190415/Gloucester-Township-history-hosiery "Gloucester Township: A history with hosiery"] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20140529164808/http://archive.courierpostonline.com/article/20061019/SPECIAL20/610190415/Gloucester-Township-history-hosiery |date=May 29, 2014 }}, ''[[Courier-Post]]'', October 19, 2006.</ref>
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