Egg Harbor Township History
www.ehthistory.org

  

Updated 2-3-2018

EHT Historical Society
 

Historical Society
Information
 Click here to learn more about the Society

 
EHT Students
Create a Book
About EHT and
EHT's History
  
Click here to go to the Student Book web page.
 

See the
EHT Tercentennial
Plate Set from 1964

Click here to see all the plates

 

  

100 Years ago this airship sailed from Atlantic City

Click on the photo to see a 45 minute video presentation about the flight.

Presentation starts 2 minutes into the video.

-or- Read the story, click here

Airship America
  

 
                           The History of Egg Harbor Township

 

The book - Sketches of Egg HarborTownship
 
   A complete history written in 1964 for our 300th anniversary, the Tercentenary. Click below, on the Introduction to get started.

Introduction

Forward

History of Bargaintown

History of Cardiff

History of English Creek

History of Farmington

Pleasantville Terrace Section
- 1910 Magazine Advertisement

History of McKee City

History of Scullville

History of Steelmanville

History of West Atlantic City

Shipbuilding Along the
Great Egg Harbor River

EHT's Early Schools

 EHT's Speedway from 1950-1979

"It is our hope that the children
of our school system may learn
from these pages and always be
aware of their heritage....."

Evelyn Ryon Collins

                     
 
         

  More History about Egg Harbor Township
  
 This is a growing History Resource, Email something in.

EHT Origins by June G. Sheridan

Ice Harvesting in Egg Harbor Township

Morris Beach, a Black Community in EHT

Nordheim Flying K Airpark, on Ridge Avenue

1917 Letter: We took the trolley down as far as
    Bargaintown, where we get off for skating
...

History of Radio, Local and otherwise.

Local Ham Radio History new 2018

Radio Station WPG, EHT's Local Station of the 1920's

The History of Radio, written in 1922, by John Hogan
  

Early History of EHT and Atlantic County
by
Alfred M. Heston

Absegami: Annals of
Eyren Haven and Atlantic City

1609 to 1904 - Volume 1 and 2

Published 1904

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Historical Links to some
Local Towns
and to nearby Museums.

Absecon

Linwood, NJ

Northfield, NJ

Somers Point, NJ

Mays Landing, NJ

Hammonton, NJ

Galloway Twp

Margate City, NJ

Lucy the Elephant

Pleasantville, NJ ?

Atlantic City
Historical Museum

Atlantic County
Historical Society

ACHS Library Collections overview

Atlantic County
County History

African American
Heritage Museum
of Southern New Jersey

The Noyes Museum of Art

Naval Air Station
Wildwood

The Millville
Army Air Field Museum

The New Jersey
State Museum

 

 

          

Dedicated to the memory of
John H. Dilks Sr. and Kathryn M. (Somers) Dilks who loved our local history.

John H. Dilks III and Family and Friends sponsor this History Web Site.
© John Dilks, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018