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The Greenwich Historic District is a 350-acre historic district located in Cumberland County. It extends from the Cohansey River north toward the neighboring settlement of Othello. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 1972, for its significance in agriculture, architecture, commerce, and politics. It includes 19 contributing buildings, many documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Located within the historic district is the Greenwich Tea Party Memorial, one of the focal points of this grant. Erected in 1908 by the Cumberland County Historical Society, the monument honors the patriots, dressed as Native Americans, that burned tea meant to be sent to Philadelphia on December 22, 1774. This event, along with four other tea parties, took place one year after the Boston Tea Party.

Owned and operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society, the Log Granary is located on the Gibbon House property, contributing to the Greenwich Historic District. Several experts in Swedish colonial architecture, including the late restoration architect G. Edwin Brumbaugh and the late Amandus Johnson of the American Swedish Historical Museum, examined the Log Granary and determined that it is of Swedish construction and probably dates to ca. 1640-1650. They further noted that the structure was probably used as a store house or granary and that was extremely significant as “probably the oldest building of its type in America.” It also appears to be the only Swedish-derived, seventeenth-century agricultural log building extant along the Delaware River. A dendrochronology report completed in 2016, however, places the date of construction in 1783. The Trust grant will help fund the preparation of an Interpretive Plan for the Log Granary located within the Greenwich Historic District.

A 2023 grant helped fund the production of season six of Drive By History with included sites within the Greenwich Historic District in addition to the Sterling Hill Mine Museum, CA Nothnagle Log House, Mortonson-Van Leer Cabin, Feltville Village, Batsto Village, Ocean Grove Historic District, and the Harriet Tubman Museum.