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Ladd's Castle

Ladd's Castle is a New Jersey historical marker in Gloucester County.

Marker is at the intersection of Lafayette Avenue and Colonial Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Lafayette Avenue.

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John Ladd, who helped Penn plan Philadelphia, built this house in 1688. The original name was Candor Hall.

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

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A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into countyes, townships…, 1689, covering the location of Ladd's Castle, with a pin at the marker's coordinates
A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into countyes, townships…, 1689, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.
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