Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Vincentown, NJ

Vincentown is an unincorporated village located within Southampton Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, along the Rancocas Creek.

The village was formerly known as Brimstone Neck and later as Quakertown, because of the large Quaker settlement there.

Vincentown takes its name from Vincent Leeds, who in 1743 purchased most of the land on which the village was built; in 1758, Vincent and his brothers Philo and James bought additional land from John Burr, enlarging the town.

The town's first institution was its Friends Meeting House, which appeared in 1781.

The first sawmill in Vincentown was built by Joseph Burr in 1775, and a gristmill followed in 1812.

Vincentown's post office received its United States Postal Service charter on April 22, 1824, with Mahlon Sleeper as its first postmaster.

Gordon's Gazetteer of 1834 described Vincentown as a post town containing a gristmill, a sawmill, two taverns, four stores, thirty to forty dwellings, a Quaker meeting house, and a house of public worship open to all denominations.

The Vincentown Historic District, listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1987 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, contains roughly 200 properties, about 80 percent of them built in the 19th century, and the village has changed little since the 1920s.

The Old Town Hall on Plum Street, built in 1884, served as Vincentown's town hall until 1980, and its second floor has been rented by the Masonic Lodge for well over a century.

The Herbert School, a private school established on Plum Street in 1858 by John G. Herbert, educated local students for forty years.