5 Princeton Drive, Delran

The Smith family moved to 5 Princeton Drive, Delran, New Jersey in approximately, 1970. The town of Delran  is a suburb of Philadelphia and got its name from bordering the DELaware river and the RANcocas creek. Many of the towns surrounding it are filled with 200 year old homes and filled with stories of George Washington coming through and tying his horse to this tree or that tree. In Delran, the homes were brand new as a developer had scooped up huge tracks of farming land and built family homes. Our family moved from Cherry Hill, New Jersey to Delran in to this new home. It was purchased for $30,000.00. This photo shows a pool which was not put in until approximately 1983. It is exactly in the same spot as my mother's garden and equal in size, where we in the off months played much of our sports and where our center field and an end zone for hundreds of neighborhood baseball and football games was situated.

The field behind the house separated the neighborhood with a strip mall, so that field was often utilized as an extension of our back yard when we were able to climb over the "green fence" which ran the length of the entire neighborhood. What is not present in this photo taken approximately, 2005,  is a huge oak tree that was in the field that must have been 400 years old, the opening to a secret water pipe room 8 feet below that ground that was ground central for several clubs we created also located in the field all the way to the right nearly against the fence that separated the field from Haines Mill Road...one of the best hideouts in the city.

5 Princeton Drive, Delran