Join us for a trip to those times Wednesday March 26, 2025 at 7:00 pm
at the Riverton Free Library, 306 Main Street.
HSR welcomes back Marisa Bozarth, Burlington County Museum Curator for a lively evening of stories and images from when everything that we know as Riverton and Cinnaminson was fields and scattered farmhouses.
Click the images to enlarge. The Parry family (above) owned several farms all around the intersection of today’s Riverton Road, Branch Pike, and (yes) Parry Road. In addition to strawberries, they had extensive orchards and grew other crops.
Here’s a view of our whole area in 1849 on the J.W. Otley and R. Whiteford map. The little dots are the only buildings. No Riverton! Palmyra was tiny and there’s nary a Wawa or gas station to be found! All farmland.
Here’s William Parry’s ad in the 1860 Boyd’s Directory which we found at archive.org:
We think that the “Turnpike to Camden & Phila” is today’s Branch Pike, based on the word “Branch” in the caption. That would make it likely that the crossroad is today’s Pomona Road.
Please join us for an interesting escape into days long ago. Free and open to the public.
Discovering and retelling Riverton’s stories since 1970.
