![]() ![]() In 1995, New Hanover Township purchased the property with Green Acres funding.“The health and well-being of the citizens in and around our area are of the utmost importance,” said Tim Wood, assistant chief of the fire department. The overall integrity of the house has been well preserved, especially regarding the interior where the current appearance is basically as Godfrey left it in 1932. Subsequent additions include the angled bay, which has a date of 1836 on its framing, and two-over-two sash in the existing window openings. The two-story, gable-roofed, rear ell was a later Federal addition. In keeping with the new style, a wooden, hip-roofed porch with slender wide-spaced columns was built on the front of the house, and the plan was expanded to include a center entrance hall containing a simple quarter-turn staircase and a fireplace. The vertically sawn framing is mortise-and-tenoned and rests on an uncoursed fieldstone foundation.Ī two-bay, Federal style addition was put on the south end with a new entrance added to re-center the east façade. Other characteristic details include the massive brick fireplace vault located in the northeast corner of the basement and the entryway located under the second floor corridor and lit with a four light transom. Typical of the Georgian style, the original house had a mostly symmetrical plan with four rooms on each floor and central circulation including an enclosed quarter-turn winder staircase. Stylistically the house was constructed in three phases: Georgian, Federal, and Colonial Revival. As the owners grew both prosperous and numerous, its simple two-story, gabled form evolved from four bays to six, and then was expanded to the rear, thus preserving the unity of the Vernacular Federal façade. Godfrey House typifies a late eighteenth century, frame farmhouse in New Jersey. ![]() A drive through Cookstown today is like spending a Sunday in a Norman Rockwell painting.Īrchitecturally, the General Edward S. Our peaceful, friendly community, surrounded by beautiful farmland and pine barrens, is a unique and welcome break form the hectic modern-day pace of life. Finally, Cookstown Park, located on Hockamick Road, is a beautiful 20-acre active and passive recreational area that offers two baseball fields, a picnic pavilion, tennis and hockey court, two basketball courts, playground equipment, and a beautiful walking trail that meanders through the woods. The township also enjoys a very nice Community/ Senior Center on Browns Mills-Cookstown Road. The north branch of the Crosswick’s Creek, which once furnished power for Cooke’s mill, forms the boundary between the municipalities.Ĭookstown features several restored historic properties: the General Godfrey House on Main Street (see attached) and a renovated one-room school house on Browns Mills-Cookstown Road. While most of Cookstown is located in New Hanover Township today, a portion lies in neighboring North Hanover Township. By 1883 the town contained a general store and post office, two stores, two hotels, a church, a blacksmith shop, a hay press, a shoemaker’s shop, and housing for about 150 people. His name has remained with the village ever since. The mill was built in 1721, and the village was known by the name of the various owners until Cooke bought the mill in 1776. The remaining ninety percent of the Township of New Hanover is owned by the federal government and occupied by the United States military reservations known as McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix Army Center, the latter of whichĬookstown, the municipal seat of the Township, was named after William Cooke, who operated a grist mill. The Township contains approximately 22.28 square miles, or 14,259 acres of land area, of which only 2.09 square miles, or slightly less than ten percent, is privately owned land and under the control of civilian authorities. The Township of New Hanover is located in the eastern portion of Burlington County. The northernmost part of the Township boasted some of the most productive farms in the county. Pemberton Township was formed partially from New Hanover Township’s territory in 1846, and in 1918 Wrightstown Borough became a separate municipality, taking all of its territory from New Hanover Township.Īgriculture was the principal industry of New Hanover Township in the early days, and farmers later utilized the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad to haul produce into market. It became one of the nine original Townships of Burlington County and was incorporated in 1798. New Hanover Township’s boundaries were established on Decemwhen King George II set it apart from Springfield and Chesterfield Townships.
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