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Lawnside is a Borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 2,692.
The land that became Lawndale was purchased by Abolitionists for freed and escaped slaves, as well as other African Americans, in 1840.
On April 20, 1926, an "Official Special Election" was held in the Borough of Lawnside. Just one month earlier, on March 23, 1926, Governor of New Jersey A. Harry Moore signed into law New Jersey General Assembly Bill 561, dissolving Center Township, of which Lawnside was a part, and incorporating the Borough of Lawnside. With that First Election, Lawnside was propelled into the local and national spotlight and claimed a place in history, becoming the first independent self-governing African American community north of the Mason-Dixon line.
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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: Barack Obama still has tough task ahead
John Farmer/The Star-Ledger Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:55:00 -0000
Democratic ticket must connect with a range of middle-class voters
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: For some Jerseyans, a night 'bigger than words can express'
Mark Mueller/The Star-Ledger Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:40:09 -0000
Esther Chambliss was a student at Newark's South Side High School when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a cheering throng in the auditorium, exhorting the crowd to study, to strive, to reach for a dream, no matter the...
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: Barack Obama accepts presidential nomination
The Associated Press Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:37:43 -0000
First black nominee tells huge stadium crowd he'll fix Washington
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: Full coverage of N.J. delegation
The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:12:27 -0000
Noah K. Murray/The Star-LedgerGov. Jon Corzine and New Jersey delegates celebrate after he cast the state's votes for Barack Obama at the convention center. Here are live headlines from Day 4 in Denver, where Star-Ledger reporters and columnists are following...
Firefighters battle blaze on Fort Dix military reservation
The Associated Press Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:42:17 -0000
ÂFirefighters this evening were battling a forest fire on the Fort Dix military reservation. Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Darlene Yuhas said tonight at least a couple of hundred acres were involved in a remote area of the base, near...
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: Under investigation in Jersey, Ferriero stays active in Denver
Josh Margolin/The Star-Ledger Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:34:36 -0000
DENVER -- He says he's riding high in Mile High, enjoying the life of a party leader who turned New Jersey's biggest county from red to blue, a fund-raiser so prolific he could lure Hillary Clinton to town on the...
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Grand slam swipes victory from Phillies
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:05:00 -0500
Shane Victorino took one step to his left in center field and stopped.
Obama tells huge Dem crowd he'll fix Washington
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:38:00 -0500
DENVER -- Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W.
Analysis: Obama exhorts Americans to be 'better than these last eight years'
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:10:00 -0500
DENVER — Barack Obama stepped into history Thursday by becoming the first black American to accept the nomination of a major political party, and in doing so exhorted Americans to be "better than these last eight years."
Lawnside Historical Society, Inc. - Nonprofit caretaker of the Peter Mott House, an African-American museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places and station along the Underground Railroad. Information about board of directors, membership, events, and visiting the house.
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