The Atco Ghost Story Website and Blog » Atco http://theatcoghost.com Where the hell is Atco New Jersey Anyway? Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:57:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-RC3-15241 About Atco and Waterford http://theatcoghost.com/2008/10/about-atco-and-waterford/ http://theatcoghost.com/2008/10/about-atco-and-waterford/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:56:08 +0000 The Ghost http://atcoghost.com/?p=130 DID YOU KNOW?

At one time, Waterford included all the land between the Cooper River and Pennsauken Creek, from the Delaware River to the current Atlantic County boundary. Boundaries have changed and other towns have been carved from Waterford since its founding in 1694.

Berlin, Cherry Hill, Voorhees and more use to all be shown on the map as Waterford. 

 

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Atco is a 60 acre town within Waterford carved out in 1860 by Thomas Richards Jr and his brother Sam.  The owners of The Jackson Glass Works which was where Louden is now. It was promoted as a clean living town and invited people to come and enjoy good health.  Good Piney Air!!!

For some more about the now famous town of Atco check out our page “The Town“.

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