More+History

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 * Approximately 15,000 years ago, this land was a barren, ice covered tundra


 * Glaciers extended so far south, the land became a habitable forest.
 * A thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Lenape Indians hunted, fished in the streams knowed as today as Parvins Lake.
 * As early as the 1500's some swedes settled in salem county, followed by the dutch in the 1600's.



Parvins lake was man made; it was built in 1783.
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 * 1676 John Fenwick bought all the land in Salem and Cumberland County.
 * When the dam was built on the muddy run (Parvins) it was to power a saw mill. 1930 New Jersey Purchased 900 acres and 100 acres and they dedicated to Parvin state park.
 * One of the first "inland" city that was later be called Bridgeton had been founded in the 1686 on the Cohansey River.
 * 1846 the original Pittsgrove Township was itself but had divided and the northwestern half had became a new Township called upper Pittsgrove.