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none but actual settlers, telling the mere speculators 

 to go elsewhere, and gave especial encouragement to 

 fruit growing. He introduced the New England 

 school system, and kept out the sale of liquor. He 

 laid out streets and roads, and in other ways ex 

 pended money liberally in promoting the welfare of 

 the settlers. These were of the best class, princi 

 pally from New England intelligent, tasteful and 

 industrious. Home manufactures of various kinds 

 were introduced, churches and school-houses were 

 built, good crops were yielded to the farmer, and a 

 general prosperity prevailed which astonished all 

 who witnessed it. The settlement speedily num 

 bered 2,000 persons, who now produce more food 

 than they need, and ship large quantities to New 

 York and Philadelphia. 



The experience acquired in settling Hammonton 

 enlarged the views of Mr. Landis, showed him his 

 omissions and mistakes, and gave him ideas which 

 he considered so valuable that he determined to 

 carry them out on a wider field. Accordingly, in 

 1861 he secured 25,000 acres in one body, in Cum 

 berland county, all in the same wild and unculti 

 vated condition. This tract of waste land lay on 

 the then newly opened railroad from. Camden to 

 Cape May, passing through Milville and Glasshoro. 

 It covered an area of 45 square miles, witli the rail 

 road passing through it, and was within 35 miles of 

 Philadelphia. This settlement he named VINE- 

 LAND. 



In this great undertaking his plan was to estab 

 lish a perfect, regular, and comprehensive system of 



