Church Street

This is a photo post card of Church Street at the Doctor's Creek Bridge. This photo is taken as if you were standing on Church Street, in front of the now Eagle Rock Apartments, looking towards Yardville.

The title is "Groille Avenue, Yardville N.J.". I have not been able to locate any reference to 'Groille Avenue", I have some maps from the 1800's and I have checked them and it is still referred to as Church Street. I was thinking, I do that once in a while, could Groille Avenue (Gro - ille) be a shortened version or a miss print by the publisher or printer of the Post Card for Groveville Avenue, a former name or reference to Church Street.

The first bridge or the the one in the foreground is the bridge over Doctor's Creek, the second is the bridge over the Mill Race, the Dam would be to the right.

The small road to the left, just past the bridges, would have been the entrance to the Grist and Saw Mills. It would have also taken you to the long multiple dwelling that housed the workers of the mills. I do remember the long house that was divided in to separate living quarters, like an apartment building, my uncle Jack Coffey lived there when I was young. I have been told that he was the first Hamilton Township Police officer, then refereed to as Constable. This house was removed when Route 130 was constructed.

I wonder about the car parked in the picture, was that the photographers car and helper, or just an innocent motorist that got his Model "T" to coast down the hill from Groveville and was now trying to convince it that it could make it up the hill into Yardville.