BATTERY BOYS BUILD A BRIDGE

Members Of Crack Artillery Corps Connect Wenonah and Sewell.

PATIENT RESIDENTS
WAITED FOR YEARS

The feat of a detachment of Battery B, Field Artillery, of Camden. in constructing in six hours a 38-foot span bridge over the deep ravine which separates Wenonah from Sewell was witnessed by hundreds of interested spectators yesterday morning, and the men were warmly congratulated upon their achievement.

You go to bed and you never think that a railroad culvert might be gone in the morning when you wake up. The Mantua Creek had more water flowing through it than the culvert could hold. The culvert and a large part of the embankment were washed away and the trestle shown in the link below was built to support the rail line.

https://wenonahhistoricalsociety.org/1957-Railroad-Trestle-over-Mantua-C...

Check out the clipping the list below. There was a big washout in 1882 also.

Discussion about card on eBay -- from November 2015.
Bob Thomas
November 2, 2015
People more familiar with the WHS collections may recognize this real photo post card, but it is new to me. I wonder if repairs to the railroad tracks were being made and everyone had to get transfer to buses when they reached Wenonah? If you know what was going on in the photo from what I estimate to be the 1940s please share your information. The card is currently available on ebay.

WENONAH PAYS HONOR TO HEROIC WAR DEAD

Wenonah. May 30 Romain C. Hassrick, Philadelphia attorney and Chef de Gare of the 40 et 8, delivered the Memorial D&y oration at exercises conducted here today by the Arthur J. Holeton Post, American Legion Exercises were held in the post hall and later the legionnaires, headed by their bugle and drum corps, accompanied by children of the Junior Garden Club, all carrying flags, marched to the Wenonah cemetery. There the graves were decorated and brief ceremonies were held.

The clipping above is from The Philadelphia Times on July 23, 1896.

Charles Wilkins was once a mayor of Wenonah and on the school board. This company was his day job.

See a photo of Charles at this page on our site.

http://wenonahhistoricalsociety.org/Charles-M-Wilkins

The first page of this edition of the The Times of Philadelphia can be viewed at the attached link.

Larry Smith wrote: "Here's the earliest article that I found in another local newspaper --- the "Gloucester County Democrat" --- about the impact of the Spanish flu on Wenonah. It's dated October 10, 1918."

THE SEASON AT WEN0NAH
Festivities the Order of the Day at Thit Picturesque Resort.
Special Telegram to The Times.
Wenonah, N. J., July 27.

Larry Smith wrote: Here's an item that Charlie Horan shared at the WHS show-and-tell meeting on January 11, 2019, and donated to the Wenonah Historical Society. It's the program from Wenonah Athletic Association's First Annual Sports Dinner in 1965. There are a lot of familiar names on the three teams and among the advertisers. In 1965 baseball was the sport that the association was built around.

Larry Smith wrote:

Larry Smith wrote:

This poster was included in the donation received from John and Melissa Lock. Anyone remember what year the parade came through Wenonah?

Mystery solved!!!

A letter from the Underwood Memorial Hospital Horse Show and Fair Committee was read at the September 13, 1985 meeting of the Wenonah Historical Society thanking the Society for its help in making the fair a success.

Therefore, the parade came through Wenonah in 1985. (I confirmed that June 9, 1985 was a Sunday as noted on the poster.)

Larry Smith added: