Smith's Meeting House

Smith's Meeting House is a New Jersey historical marker in Atlantic County, dedicated 1938.

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Built by Micajah Smith about 1800. Named "Methodist Union Chapel at Blackmen's Mills" when incorporated in 1837. Micajah Smith, John Van Sant, Privateer Captains, and Jonas Morse and James Bell, Revolutionary soldiers, are buried in the Church Yard.

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Historical maps covering this location

1794 · New Jersey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · New Jersey (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1807 · Carte des Provines Septles. des Etats-Unis. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · New Jersey (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1818 · New Jersey (1818) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

New Jersey, 1797, covering the location of Smith's Meeting House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — New Jersey, 1797, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: New Jersey Historical Commission

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