Arneytown
Arneytown

This New Hanover township village was described by historian E.M. Woodward in 1883 as nothing more than a collection of houses in the middle of a prosperous farming district. That is the only reference I have come across to it so far. If you know something else about this place, please send me an e-mail at [email protected]

Below I have mirrored the contents of the site at http://www.co.burlington.nj.us/info/history/township/northhanovertownship.htm; rather than just linking to it in the event that it goes off line (as so many of the pages I have linked to over the years have.)

NORTH HANOVER TOWNSHIP
 


Arneytown Historic Distract
Eglisdale-Arneytown (Provinceline) Road and
Chesterfneid-Arneytown Road
SR 12/26/74 NR 12/12/77

This tiny hamlet in the northeast corner of Burlington County crosses the border into Monmouth County. It contains no more than a handful of houses and several outbuildings. The houses are plain on the exterior, but several have richly ornamented interiors.

At the main corner is the Lawrie House or Arneytown Tavern, this building is believed to date from the second quarter of the 18th century. The main section has a center hall plan, with four rooms on each floor. The large cooking fireplace remains intact in the northeast room. Three rooms have paneled fireplace walls, and there are several corner cupboards. The wing to the east served at various times as post office, grocery store, and feed store.

On the opposite side of the road southeast of the tavern is Myrtlebank. The western section of this house was probably built before 1731 by John Emley. Its massive cooking fireplace still remains on the interior, but this section was considerably reworked when the large eastern addition was constructed in 1829 for William Wildes. There is a fine elliptical fanlight over the front door.

About one-half mile north of the crossroads is the Thomas Woodward House. The older section, constructed of brick, contains a datestone reading "WT & I, 1733". This was incorporated into a larger frame section about 1780. The enlarged house has a center hall plan with four rooms on each floor. The several fireplaces have different mantels, combining wood, marble, plaster, and cast iron ornament in the Federal and Greek Revival styles.

Another Arneytown house probably dates to the second half of the 18th century. The plan of the main section has a broad stairhall with twin parlors to one side. The parlors have corner fireplaces with elaborate Georgian mantels and overmantels.

Arneytown, surrounded by fields, maintains the appearance of a rural hamlet centered on a crossroads tavern. Unfortunately, one of the houses and several of the barns that contributed to this character have been demolished since Arneytown was placed on the National Register.

  
Arneytown has a historic district, I found this information about it:
Arneytown Historic District 
(added 1977 - Burlington County - #67451850) 
N of Jacobstown, Jacobstown 
(580 acres, 12 buildings)  
Historic Significance: 	Architecture/Engineering, Event 	
Architectural Style: 	Georgian, Greek Revival 	
Area of Significance: 	Architecture, Exploration/Settlement 	
Period of Significance: 	1700-1749, 1750-1799 	
Owner: 	Private , Local Gov't 	
Historic Function: 	Commerce/Trade, Domestic 	
Historic Sub-function: 	Business, Single Dwelling 	
Current Function: 	Domestic 	
Current Sub-function: 	Single Dwelling
Apparently there was a Rogers family at Arneytown in the 19th Century as well, according to this site.

News Items From Arneytown

from the New Jersey Mirror 3 Jun 1852:
On Friday morning the 21st ult.(May, 1852), a colored man named Augustus Evernham, in the employ of Robert Woodward, living near Arneytown, went to the woods to cut down trees. As he did not return in the evening, Mr. Woodward went in search of him the next morning, and found his body lying by the only tree he had cut. This tree in falling, had broken a limb from a tree standing near, which limb had fallen on the head of the colored man and killed him--probably instantly. A knot on the limb had gone into his brain.

New Jdrsey Mirror 4 Jan 1855
1000 locust posts for sale by Edward B. Woodward, near Arneytown, Ocean County, NJ.