Haddonfield historic main street
— the road New Jersey became a state on.
Not only on a wall.
Haddonfield historic main street, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Kings Highway runs straight through Haddonfield, brick sidewalks under the sycamores, the Indian King Tavern at number 233 still set into the row. Elizabeth Haddon settled the town in 1713; the legislature met in the tavern's upper rooms in 1777 and signed New Jersey into a state there. In 1858 the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in North America came out of a marl pit two blocks east. The shops keep their nineteenth-century fronts.
The place, in three passes.
Haddonfield sits in Camden County, New Jersey, about seven miles east of the Delaware River and the city of Philadelphia. Elizabeth Haddon, a young English Quaker, settled the tract in 1713 on land her father had purchased from William Penn's land company. The historic core runs along Kings Highway East, a colonial-era road preserved as a National Register Historic District since 1982, with roughly five hundred contributing properties from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The PATCO line connects the town directly to Center City Philadelphia in under twenty minutes.
The Indian King Tavern at 233 Kings Highway East, built in 1750, is the road's anchor. In 1777, with Trenton and Princeton under threat, the New Jersey General Assembly met in the tavern's upper rooms and on September 20 adopted the act that formally changed the colony's name to the State of New Jersey. Today the building is the state's first historic site, acquired in 1903, and the only such site administered directly by the state's Division of Parks and Forestry rather than as a park unit.
Two blocks east of Kings Highway, a small park on Maple Avenue marks the marl pit where William Parker Foulke, in 1858, recovered the bones of Hadrosaurus foulkii. It was the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in North America, mounted at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1868 as the first such mount in the world. A bronze of the animal by sculptor John Giannotti stands at the head of Kings Court. The hadrosaur is the official state dinosaur of New Jersey.
