Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-10
A NEW ENGLAND SETTLEMENT
WHERE AND WHAT Is HAMMoNToN?

WHERE AND WHAT Is HAMMoNTON?
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more or less ana lies partly IN The fhsirs
and partly III Atlantic county distance twenty ffVe
about the Atlantic City at the sea shore Little
Egg Harbor River, the tributaries which water Ham
Pleasant Mills six miles from the foot of Hammonton
Lake The products Of the sea, in the shape OF fish, oys
ters, &C. may be daily commanded; and its vicinity
Philadelphia gives it the benefit OF that market
purchases sales Lands in cultivation anywhere
within the distance Of Philadelphia north, south
cast or west are worth from to three hundred dol
environs with eight hundred mouths to be
day fed that gvessuc high value all farms and gar
dens. There is reason in the world, why the lands
that be bought in ammonton at the comparatively
insignificant price of twenty dollars per should
same distance by railway from that city,
The soil of this territory is various from stiff clay,
suitable for brick making, to very light sand
which, light as appears, rich in the elements of
Corn Rye Barley Oats Clover Herds Grass Sweet 20
tatoes, Irish Potatoes. Egg Plant Peaches, Pears,
Musk Melons, indeed ali the fruit and vege-
tables common to the Philadelphia market, and which
make that it is well known to be- the best market
breadsus fruit and vegetables in the United States
perhaps in the world.
pie, yellow pine cedar, &e,, but in most localities the
growth has been cut OIL within few years for the of
neighborng glass works. and is therefore covered
only with small wood easily cleared In places where
the trees are yet large, the standing wood may be pur
The population that has removed thther within the
year largely New England and now numbers
tbout Thousand. 1t rapidly filling up with
rious temperate enterprisng people Since Spring
about one hundred and fifty dwelling houses of various
sizes and costs, have been erected.
The tract is laid in lots of 20 acres and up
wards and town lots of and downwards and ave-
and streets opened in every direction There are
ineXhaustible supplies of muck and mari the land
which very cheap and valuable fertilizers The
water peculiarly sweet and clear and may be by
digging wells from to IL feet deep Living springs also
abound
The climate is best in the United States, the latitude
being neither too far North for cold South for
heat 1t is nearly that of Baltimore and the atmosphere
tempered in summer and mgaed in winter by the
DTeezc that come in from the sweeping the
OF the gulf stream which leaves the New Jersey
rectly east of Hammonton No such thing as fever and
ague was ever known there more healthy spot cannot
| be found.
The of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad run from
Vine St Wharf, Philadelphia, twice day and from
HanmoIton, and all persons who purchase lands and
commence building in H. have free passes the road
for three months and are carried at half price for three
| years afterwards.
just look at Hammonton before you to remove
| West. 1t can do no harm, at least.
For price OF farms terms &C., apply personally by
letter, enclosing stamp to JOHN STILES Is Street.
| Boston, or to RICHARD l.. BYRNs at Hanmonton who
will promptly reply to all letters.