Civil War Nurse Cornelia Hancock was born February 8, 1840, at Hancock's Bridge, four miles south of Salem, in southern New Jersey. She was one of five children born into this Quaker family. Her only brother and her cousins went to war against the south and Cornelia explored every possible opportunity of following them. It was as an assistant to her sister's husband, Dr. Henry T. Child, of Philadelphia, that she finally achieved her goal. At the age of 24, Cornelia reached the battlefield at Gettysburg. She served continually until Richmond was taken. (source: Henrietta Jaquette, editor, South After Gettysburg, Letters of Cornelia Hancock, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia: 1937 pg viii)

Hancock's Bridge Quaker Meeting House surrounded by buttonwood trees planted to act as lightning rods.

Hancock's Bridge water lilies

Past Governor Christie Whitman looks through a 40mm spotting scope at the Bald Eagle Nest Viewing Platform in Lower Alloways Creek to observe two eaglets nesting. The nest is one of the largest and most productive in the state. Observing the eaglets with the Governor is Commissioner Shinn of Department of Environmental Protection, center, and Eric Stiles, Zoo Zoologist of New Jersey Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife. Photo courtesy State of New Jersey (April 20, 2000).

LAC once had a commercial ski slope named Holly Mountain.