Pitman Grove

Pitman Grove
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
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Location	Bounded by Holly, East, Laurel, and West Avenues (both sides), Pitman, New Jersey
Coordinates	39°43′50″N 75°7′58″W / 39.73056°N 75.13278°W / 39.73056; -75.13278Coordinates: 39°43′50″N 75°7′58″W / 39.73056°N 75.13278°W / 39.73056; -75.13278
Area	20 acres (8.1 ha)
Architectural style	Second Empire, Italianate
NRHP Reference #	77000870[1]
NJRHP #	1412[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 19, 1977
Designated NJRHP	July 10, 1976

Pitman Grove Museum

Houses in Pitman Grove

Pitman Grove, is located in Pitman, Gloucester County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 1977. The Pitman Grove Area is on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places. It developed from a summer camp meeting at the turn of the century. In the center of the Grove area is the Camp Meeting Auditorium which was built in 1882 and recently renovated by the Borough. This historic building was once the center of Methodist worship. People came from far away for revival meetings at the Auditorium; the first such meeting was held in 1871.

There are 12 "avenues", number 1 through 12 representing the disciples of Christ, that are joined to the auditorium as spokes on the hub of a wheel. There is a spot in the tabernacle where you can stand and look down all 12 avenues. Eventually small cottages were built on these avenues and this was the origin of the town. Today the "avenues" are actually narrow sidewalks. In 1905, Pitman Grove became the Borough of Pitman. Back then, Pitman was known as a place with no mosquitoes, no malaria and no saloons. To this day, Pitman is a dry town with no liquor stores and no liquor licenses issued.^[3]

References

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National Register of Historic Places in Gloucester County, New Jersey
Historic districts	Mullica Hill Historic District Pitman Grove
Other properties	Barnsboro Hotel Butler Farm Carpenter Street School Jesse Chew House Benjamin Clark House Downer Methodist Episcopal Church Free Library and Reading Room-Williamstown Memorial Library G. G. Green's Block Hall Street School Hunter-Lawrence-Jessup House Ladd's Castle Moravian Church Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery C. A. Nothnagle Log House Bodo Otto House Red Bank Battlefield Richardson Avenue School Richwood Methodist Church John C. Rulon House Salisbury Farm St. Peter's Episcopal Church St. Thomas Episcopal Church Gov. Charles C. Stratton House Thompson House Tinicum Island Rear Range Light Trinity Church Upper Greenwich Friends Meetinghouse James Whitall, Jr. House Whitney Mansion Woodbury Friends' Meetinghouse
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Gloucester County, New Jersey and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey