From the Courier Post newspaper, January 6, 1990
School Number 1 (Later Wee Love daycare) was renamed after Elizabeth B. Haig.
Great book on the early history of Burlington County, NJ schools. You can read it online or download the PDF.
From Enoch Roberts' cyphering book (Probably Chester Brick School ??)
(spelled today- ciphering)
2- 8- 1804
(At Burlington Historical Society)
There is a circular pond, whos area is 5028 4/7 square feet, in the middle of which stood a pole 100 feet high; now the pole having been broken, it was observed that the top just struck the brink of the pond; what is the height of the pole?
Ansr 41.99
(I also have a 68 written)
Two men depart from the same place at the same time, one travels 30, and the other 35 miles a day; how far are they distant from each other after 7 days, supposing they both travel the same road, and how far apart if they travel in contrary directions
ansr 35 miles were going the same direction
455 miles contrary way
If the earth be 360 degrees in circumfurance and each degree 690 miles, how long would a man be in traveling round it, who advances 20 miles a day; reckoning 365 1/4 (I also wrote 364 1/4) days in a year
Ansr 3 years 155 1/2 days
We know it was named that if not from the very start to within a few years of it because of the sampler Lydia Burrough did in 1814. There is a VERY similar sampler done in 1812 (both of the Westtown Friends school where the young girls aspired to go) but doesn't have Chesterford School written on it.
The name Chesterford School would probably have more to do with the South branch of the Pennsauken Creek than the North branch which one might think, looking at the school district when it became a County District school and then a Twp. District School and had the Maple Shade area for the most part excluding the Matlack family/ apartments section.
You see when it was built in 1811 the neighborhood had nothing to do with counties. Children went to that school from both sides of the creek. Members of the Burrough family owned the land on both sides of the south branch of the Pennsauken Creek almost entirely (like 95%) along the Maple Shade area border.
The old school it replaced was on former Rudderow land somewhat near Collins Lane and the school teacher Emmanuel Beagary was renting that house from the Estate of Samuel Burrough of Evesham. He was also very involved in St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Colestown with the Rudderow family.
Little Samuel Burrough Jr. had just turned 21 years old and inherited his "new house" on what is now Maple Ave. Cherry Hill. Also Cropwell Meeting House was just recently built which the rents of the Collins lane house and the new house helped at least in a small way build.
Joseph Burrough built on the very edge of his land and ALSO note- on the not too old road (1794) our Main street the new school for the area.
So the name Chesterford- The school was in Chester Township not Waterford Township. (Also note that had a FORD in it) now Cherry Hill. So I would think they were saying It is in Chester Twp. but don't forget where it was built from over here across the creek or saying that to those people from that side even.
-Dennis