The historic town of Marshallville has a large collection of early 19th century homes and the original brick and clapboard homes still dot the river's edge. The village of Tuckahoe thrived on both sides of the river for more than a century until Corbin City was incorporated in As you stroll around downtown Tuckahoe you will see spectacular middle 19th century buildings, each and every one having a story to tell.
Although steam trains had long been in operation in other parts of the country, the railroad did not come to Tuckahoe until However, 15 years earlier in , steam power brought an improvement in transportation by water to residents of Tuckahoe. A steam " side wheeler " was bought by a group of local citizens to operate between Tuckahoe and Somers Point.
Not only did this provide faster and more efficient transportation from the river to the Great Egg Harbor Bay, it also provided access to Philadelphia and other East Coast cities, besides the stagecoach. The coming of the railroad was an economic boon to the village of Tuckahoe.
This village is said to be the only surviving Indian-named area in Cape May County. In the nineteenth century, the village of Tuckahoe consisted of two settlements on either side of the Tuckahoe River, a tributary of Great Egg Harbor Bay. The area south of the river, known historically as South Tuckahoe, is where the South Tuckahoe Historic District is located.
South Tuckahoe was also called Williamsburg after the first Post Master, John Williams appointed in ; however, that name was not widely used. The nineteenth-century settlement known as North Tuckahoe, on the other side of the river, is now called Corbin City after August Corbin, president of the Reading Railroad, who established a station there in For the past one hundred years, the name "Tuckahoe" has been associated with only the settlement on the south side of the river, historic "South Tuckahoe.
The earliest settlement in the vicinity of Tuckahoe occurred in the late s. The main road passing through the village of Tuckahoe, called Route 50 today, dates to when the New Jersey Assembly passed an act for the construction of a road from Cedar Swamp Bridge in Cape May County north to the Tuckahoe River, passing through the present village. Even with this road, however, the Tuckahoe area developed later than most other early villages in the county because it was isolated by the Tuckahoe River Delta and the Great Cedar Swamp.
South Tuckahoe was established in the early nineteenth century, in response to the development of the lumbering and shipbuilding activities at that time. Throughout most of the nineteenth century, Tuckahoe was a bustling shipbuilding village and farming community. The appointment of a postmaster in established Tuckahoe as a service village. Tuckahoe also served as a shipping center for nearby industries including glassmaking established in and located in what is now known as Marshallville , just west of Tuckahoe , and bog iron production at the Etna Furnace established in and located in what is now called Head-of-the-River, 4 miles west of Tuckahoe and a cranberry business operated between and the s on two hundred acres outside of Tuckahoe.
In the early nineteenth century, the Tuckahoe area had a thriving economic community largely due to the important contributions of the shipbuilding business, especially in the supply of coastal schooners, for the county's efforts in the War of The second quarter of the nineteenth century was the first period of dramatic growth for the village.
This development was influenced by the village being centrally located along the river, near the thriving iron and glass industries, and along the main road between May's Landing the future county seat of Atlantic County to the north and other settlements in Cape May County to the south and east.
The significant growth began between and when the population of the village tripled. A description of Tuckahoe in , published in The Gazetteer of the State of NJ , described the village as follows: "on both sides of the Tuckahoe river, over which there is a bridge, 10 miles above the sea, 46 miles S. It is a place of considerable trade in wood, lumber and shipbuilding.
The land immediately on the river is good, but a short distance from it, is swampy and low. In , Tuckahoe was described as containing an additional forty dwellings, and the Methodist Church built in is specifically mentioned. By , the village became even more well-known because of the establishment of the Tuckahoe Stage which began to run from Philadelphia to Cape May via May's Landing and Tuckahoe.
This stagecoach stop further strengthened Tuckahoe's role as a prominent service village for the surrounding area. During the era surrounding the Civil War, Tuckahoe continued to grow as its shipbuilding business continued to flourish. The shipbuilding business reached its peak in production by the s.
This growth was reflective of the County-wide surge in which shipbuilding employed the most people in the County after the Civil War and this era being the most productive period of shipbuilding in the County's history. The Jonas Steelman shipyard in Tuckahoe was one of three shipyards that produced the largest ships in the county.
Unlike many New Jersey villages, the railroad did not come to Tuckahoe during this period. Instead, another transportation development occurred in , when a group of local residents purchased a steamboat to provide passage between Tuckahoe and Somers Point.
This boat, called the Reuben Potter, was used as an alternative method of transportation to the stage for getting to Atlantic City , an easy connection from Somers Point, as well as for local outings, such as for Sunday School. The earliest known description of the settlement specifically on the south side of the river is from the register of cities, village and post-offices of New Jersey which mentions the village of Tuckahoe as a post village on the south side of the Tuckahoe River, with a considerable hamlet across the river in Atlantic County.
The village is 4 miles northeast of Woodbine, has a large local trade, and is largely interested in cranberry culture, fishing and coast-wise trade; boats and sailing vessels are built and owned here. Population, By the last decade of the nineteenth century, the era of the shipbuilding business reached a close, and the village began its association with the railroad. The following year, the line was extended all the way to Cape May, and it became crowded with people making daily excursions to the seashore.
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