Meeting House

Meeting House is a New Jersey historical marker in Atlantic County.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (County Route 575) and Park Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.

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In 1800, Micajah Smith built a Methodist Church on this site. Smith, a Revolutionary privateer captain, is buried here.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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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Meeting House

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