Harrison Township Historical Society

A Self-Guided Walking Tour

Mullica Hill Historic Walking Tour

Five buildings. One mile of sidewalk. Two hundred and fifty years.

The five buildings on this walk stand inside the Mullica Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1991. They span from a 1772 tavern built four years before the Declaration of Independence to a 1922 produce flight that lifted off from a farm field just outside town. The walk begins at the Harrison Township Historical Society's museum at Old Town Hall, 62 South Main Street, and runs along South Main and Woodstown Road.

Each stop has a yard sign with a QR code. Scan the code at the sign to read the story for that building. The tour follows a simple geographic flow: begin at the museum, cross to the corner at the Friends Meeting House, walk north up Main to the Gaunt House and the Warehouse, then turn south and finish at the Old Eagle Hotel just before the museum. The whole tour takes about an hour at a comfortable reading pace.

Stops 5 buildings
Distance About 1 mile
Time ~ 1 hour

The Stops

  1. 1 Old Town Hall 1871 Built by stockholders at five dollars a share. Site of the 1926 Stark Brothers ceremony that introduced a new American apple. Home of the Society's museum. 62 South Main Street
  2. 2 Friends Meeting House 1808 A Quaker congregation that has gathered on this corner since 1797 and a burial ground that holds the largest tombstone in Mullica Hill. Corner of South Main & Woodstown Road
  3. 3 The Gaunt House c. 1885 A state senator who ran toward a fire and never came back, and the daughter-in-law whose sewing factory kept the house going for a century after he died. 14 South Main Street
  4. 4 The Warehouse Late 19th century A million bushels of sweet potatoes, a 1922 airplane carrying asparagus to Boston, and the rail line that connected this corner to the eastern seaboard. 2 South Main Street
  5. 5 Old Eagle Hotel Est. 1772 A tavern four years older than the United States, and the room where citizens met in 1844 to form Old Harrison Township. 51 South Main Street
Begin the Tour Stop 1 · Old Town Hall ›