Green Hill Farm was a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) horse farm in Burlington Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[2] The land was owned and operated by families out of Burlington and Philadelphia. First, Green Hill was owned by Samuel Jennings, the acting Governor of West Jersey. Jennings purchased the property in 1681 and gave it the name Green Hill. It is possible that he named it after Green Hill near Kenilworth, Evesham in Worcester, England though there is not conclusive proof of this.[3] In 1791, John Smith bought 340 acres (1.4 km2) of the Jennings property. The famous brick house located there was built between 1800 and 1803.[4] The frame tenant house was the home of various families to work on the farm. The 9.5 acres that remain of Green Hill was purchased by Stephen and Helen Matlaga in 1973. The Matlagas and their extended family painstakingly restored the main house along with two tenant houses and converted the 1867 barn into a medical office. Dr. Stephen Matlaga still owns and operates Green Hill Chiropractic out of this space.
Green Hill Farm | |
 1876 Print of the main house at Green Hill Farm. | |
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| Location | Oxmead and Deacon Roads, Burlington Township, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates | 40°02′43″N 74°48′50″W / 40.04514°N 74.81399°W |
| Area | 9.5 acres (3.8 ha) |
| Built | 1800 |
| Architectural style | Italianate, Gothic Revival, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 82003265[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 8, 1982 |
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edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Register of Historical Places - NEW JERSEY (NJ), Burlington County". Nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ Bisbee, Henry (1971). Sign Posts. Willingboro, New Jersey: Alexia Press, Inc. p. 99.
GREEN HILL (Burlington Township). Site of Samuel Jennings country estate on Oxmead Road. Jennings purchased the land in 1681 when he came to West Jersey as deputy-Governor. It was he who named his estate Green Hill. There is a slight possibility that Jennings named his plantation after a famous place name in English history, Green Hill near Kenilworth, Evesham, in Worcester, but this is not conclusive. Green Hill, Burlington Township, is mentioned in 1818 road returns. The tract has recently been carved into building lots.
- ^ "Burlington Township Historical Information". Archived from the original on June 21, 2006. Retrieved January 5, 2010.