1950's: HOW RURAL WERE WE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS!

It is nearly impossible for the younger generation to understand how very rural Hamilton Township was just 50 short years ago. Anywhere you drove, north, south, east or west, as you left any of our local neighborhoods and ventured out into "the country," you would see fields of corn, alfalfa, and other expansive farms. Can you even try to consider today's intersection with Youngs Road and the photo above? Mind boggling!

THANKS, TOM REED

Tom Reed has been a glover320.blogspot.com visitor since the very beginning. Tom is also the nephew of legendary fire fighter "Cap" Dempster. Thanks for this interesting photo, Tom. Thanks also for your support. If there are any former Trenton "Goose Town" residents who visit this site, Tom would like to hear from you.
TOM: ABOVE IS A PHOTO OF A GENTLEMAN STANDING ON A BRIDGE AT REED'S MILL ON QUAKER BRIDGE ROAD. MAYBE THIS IS PHOTO IS NAMED FOR YOUR FAMILY. I AM ALSO INCLUDING A PHOTO OF THE DAM BREAK AT REED'S MILL. I THOUGHT THAT THESE REEDS MAY BE RELATIVES.

Tom writes:

Tom,

I'm sending a picture of a family reunion at Grand pop James Reed's farm in Hamilton, taken in the early 1930's. That's me on Mom's lap in the left front. The tall man in the white shirt in the back row is Uncle "Cap" Dempster whom the Mercer County Fire School/Museum is named for. Beyond the fence is a cemetery. In my trips to Trenton, I've stopped many times at the Hamilton Tax office to try to look up the location of the property, but everyone was always very busy. G'pop sold it in the later 1930's and it may be part of one of the cemeteries now.