A Self-Guided Walking Tour

Mullica Hill Historic Walking Tour

Twenty-six stops across the main loop and optional North Main extension. Three hundred years of stories.

This walk runs through the Mullica Hill Historic District, the whole village listed on the National Register in 1991. Its stories reach back to a 1705 survey that set the Mullica name on the rise above Raccoon Creek, and run through a 1772 tavern built four years before the Declaration of Independence, a 1922 flight that carried local asparagus to Massachusetts from a field outside the village, and a March morning in 1964 when a tractor-trailer came through the wall of the feed store at the Old Mill.

The walk begins at the Society's museum at Old Town Hall, 62 South Main Street, follows South Main Street in a loop of about a mile, and offers an optional half-mile leg up North Main to the town clock. Most stops have a yard sign; scan it, or follow the numbers here. New to the village? Read a brief history first.

The Walk · In Order, Museum to Museum

About one mile on the loop, museum to museum, in the order below. Numbered stops are the full stories; gold letters are shorter waypoint reads, on both legs. The red numbers are the optional North Main leg, roughly half a mile more: the choice comes at the Warehouse, the leg begins over the bridge, and it returns to the loop at Stop 9, The Old Mill. Short on time? Cross at the traffic light to the Old Mill and stay on the loop.

1. 1Old Town HallBuilt on five-dollar shares, moved on rollers in 1920, home of the museum.1871 · 62 South Main Street
2. AThe School That MovedSix schoolhouses on one lot since about 1720. One is now a house.24 and 26 Woodstown Road
3. 2Friends Meeting HouseThe 1808 gable fell in a great wind. The meeting rebuilt and never left.1808 · South Main & Woodstown Road
4. BThe Letters in the IronFour iron letters under a shop window, left by the chain that became Acme.c. 1925 · 54 South Main Street
5. 3The Brick RowAlready standing in the town's earliest picture, 1844. Almost nothing has moved since.1771 · South Main at High Street
6. 4Wolf Funeral HomeIn 1889 he advertised a Patent Corpse Preserver. Then the dead came to him.c. 1810 · 30 South Main Street
7. 5The Harness Maker's Post OfficeFor thirteen years the whole post office fit inside a harness maker's house.c. 1840 · 26 South Main Street
8. 6First Baptist ChurchEighteen founders, Gloucester County's first Baptist church, and Union soldiers at rest behind it.1845 · 18 South Main Street
9. 7The Gaunt HouseA senator who answered the fire bell, and the sewing factory in his attic.c. 1885 · 14 South Main Street
10. CHarmony Fire CompanyThe fire company crossed the creek once and never moved again. Still rolling.By the 1940s · 4 South Main Street
11. 8The WarehouseNearly a million bushels of sweet potatoes, and asparagus flown to Massachusetts in 1922.c. 1890 · 2 South Main Street
12. 9The Old MillIn 1964 a tractor-trailer came through the wall. The feed counter never closed.1880s · 1 South Main Street
13. DThe Bridge Under the BridgeUnder this road lie stone piers left by an earlier bridge.Raccoon Creek crossing
14. EThe Old FirehouseJoin a fire company, skip the militia. Mullica Hill's first company formed in 1827.1905 · 14 North Main Street
15. N1Mullica HouseNamed for a family whose world vanished, except for this one little house.Early 1700s · 20 North Main Street
16. N2Old Farmers National BankFour young men, everyone tied up, and 8,370 Depression dollars gone in 1932.1903 · 28 North Main Street
17. N3The Union StoreEver wondered why Mullica Hill is an antiques town? Start with this building.1866 · 46 North Main Street
18. N4The Ware Law OfficeThe town's first lawyer, a chair-maker's son, and the tiny office beside his house.1850 · 53 North Main Street
19. N5St. Stephen's Episcopal ChurchThe town clock since 1880, and the congregation that brought its dead along.1853 · 51 North Main Street
20. FThe Jail on the CornerThe village jail was here, and an antiques sign the photographs catch but do not date.North Main at Arbour Lane
21. 10The Foundry That Turned AroundThe foundry shop was moved and turned to face Church Street.1857 · South Main & East Church Streets
22. 11Trinity Methodist ChurchTwo churches in twenty-one years, and a parsonage from the town's first car dealer.1848 · South Main Street
23. 12The Stratton HouseHe kept the bullet that took his leg, and showed it from this porch.1848 · 39 South Main Street
24. 13Old Eagle HotelA tavern four years older than the United States, where the township was born.Est. 1772 · 51 South Main Street
25. GThe Mullica Hill GarageGas, tires, and the bus out of town. Every errand crossed this corner.1922 · 66 South Main Street
26. HThe Spicer HouseThis side of the creek was Spicerville once, and this corner was the Spicers'.Spicerville · 76 South Main Street