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First Sunday School in New Jersey, 1907 Sketch

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Hand-drawn sketch of the First Sunday School in New Jersey, dated April 9, 1907. Printer notes at the bottom suggest this was possibly intended for a publication. Inscription on the back of the drawing reads: "The building formerly stood on the Old Campbell property at Brookside Drive and Hollow Road near the foot of Campbell Pond." "Building in which first Sunday School in this section was established in 1818" has been crossed out. "First Sunday School in New Jersey" is written below that, probably as a caption to the sketch. According to Marion Meisner: A Sunday School, which may have been the first in New Jersey, in point of continuous operation, was started in 1818 by the Misses Kate and Elizabeth Campbell, and their cousin, Miss Duychinck, in the wash-house of the Campbell Estate on Brookside Drive. This Sunday School is said to have become immediately popular here, and was later taken over as an organization of the Springfield Presbyterian Church. The American Sunday School Union was not founded until 1824, so that Millburn's Sunday School of 1818 was a novel and foresighted development, and actually one of the first in the entire country.

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         First Sunday School in New Jersey, 1907 Sketch picture number 1
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