Carpenter's Landing, New Jersey

Carpenter's Landing was a mercantile settlement located at the head of sloop navigation on Mantua Creek in Mantua Township in Gloucester County, New Jersey.^[1]

Map of Mantua Township, New Jersey

In the late 1780s, Thomas Carpenter (1752-1847) moved to Carpenter's Landing and established a store and lumber business.^[2] In the 1860s, it was described as "a place of considerable trade in lumber, cordwood, etc., and contains one tavern, two stores, 30 dwellings and a Methodist church".^[3] The landing is said to have been named either for a man named Carpenter who built boats at the site during its mercantile boom days,^[4] or Edward Carpenter, son of Thomas Carpenter and descendant of Samuel Carpenter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who owned the Heston & Carpenter Glass Works in nearby Glassboro, New Jersey, in 1786^[5][6] in partnership with Col. Thomas Heston, his wife's nephew.^[7]

Notable people

See also: Category:People from Mantua Township, New Jersey

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Carpenter's Landing include:

• Thomas Carpenter (1752–1847), early American glassmaker.^[8]

See also

• New Bridge Landing
• Raritan Landing