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Jack Edge ~ BURLINGTON COUNTY POST TOWNS: PART 2BUCHANAN POST OFFICE ~ Established December 28, 1892This short-lived office was located on the site of the old Lebanon Glass Works, alsocalled Upper Mills. The village was three miles southwest of Woodmansie and three miles to thenortheast from Shamong Post Office, later Chatsworth. It was on the old Stage Road toManahawkin.At the time of establishment, George Bozarth, the first postmaster, estimated a village of150 with a total of 200-300 to be serviced by this office! This “stretching” of the truth wastypical of applicants for a postal facility in this sparsely populated section of Burlington County.A post office added legitimacy to an enterprise and, hopefully, investors and business.Mail was to be left at Buchanan Station on the New Jersey Southern Railroad, some threemiles distant from the village! A lack of business soon spelled the doom of another ofBurlington County’s pineland post offices.December 28, 1892November 14, 1896Post office openedPost office discontinued - service to Chatsworth~ ~BUDDTOWN POST OFFICE ~ Established June 1, 1868Some three miles to the east of Vincentown lies the small village of Buddtown. Settledalong a branch of the Rancocas Creek, known as Stop the Jade Run, Buddtown was named forThomas Budd, early sawmill owner and citizen of this place.Fig. No. 17: Circa 1875. Fig. No.17a: Residence near Buddtown circa 1876.Vol. 33/No. 2NJPHWhole No. 15897May 2005