GLOUCESTER CITY NJ (2006)–This working-class community has often reinvented itself since Capt. Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, a Dutch explorer, came here when Fort Nassau was built at the Big Timber Creek in 1626.
The city became a refuge for Quakers, but Gloucester City also was once the county seat — of Gloucester County — and in the Gay \’90s it was becoming a politically powerful den of iniquity. But by the 1940s, it had become an industrial town, whose lifeblood businesses are now shuttered, said David Munn, the city\’s historian.
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