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Edelman Fossil Park

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The Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park, located in Mantua Township, New Jersey, consists of a 66-million-year-old 6-inch (150 mm) bone bed set into a 65-acre (26 ha) former marl quarry. It is currently the only facility east of the Mississippi River that has an active open quarry for public Community Dig Days. Formed at the end of the Cretaceous Period during the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, this rich fossil deposit is abundant in marine life which is indicative of the shallow sea that once covered the area that would become Southern New Jersey. The fossil park is undergoing renovations to become the site of the Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park Museum and will be available for school, scout, camp, and public programs once construction is complete. It is currently closed to the public and will reopen after the completion of the museum in 2023. The Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park is owned and operated by Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey thanks in part to a generous donation from Jean and Ric Edelman.

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Sewell station
Sewell station

Sewell is a defunct commuter railroad station in the Sewell section of Mantua Township, New Jersey, Gloucester County, New Jersey, U.S. Service began in 1861, provided by the West Jersey Railroad, which later became the West Jersey Seashore Lines, and Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line branch between Millville and Camden. Passenger service was discontinued February 5, 1971. The line was subsumed by Conrail. Freight service operates along Conrail's South Jersey/Philadelphia Shared Assets Operations Vineland Secondary. The community of Sewell was called originally called Barnsboro Station for the stop of the stagecoach line to Barnsboro (to Barnsboro Hotel, for example) and to Hurffville. The area was a summer resort for visitors on route to the Pitman Grove Methodist summer camp meeting. The name remained until the current station house was built. The community of Sewell, and subsequently the station, was named for General William Joyce Sewell (1835–1901), president of the West Jersey & Seashore and the Philadelphia & Camden Ferry Company. The station house was built in 1888 by the West Jersey Railroad. It was purchased in 2006 by local residents who intended to preserve and possibly open ice cream shop, which did not materialize. The site nearby the former station is a proposed stop of the Glassboro–Camden Line, a hybrid rail/light rail initiative to reintroduce rail service to the region using diesel multiple units (DMUs).

Rowan College of South Jersey

Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) is a public community college with two campuses New Jersey, one in Sewell (Gloucester Main Campus) and one in Vineland and Millville (Cumberland Branch Campus). The college was established in 1966 as Gloucester County College. In 2014 the college changed its name to Rowan College of Gloucester County when Rowan University and Gloucester County College entered into a partnership. The college then expanded in 2019, combining Rowan College at Gloucester County (RCGC) and Cumberland County College to become Rowan College of South Jersey. The college now offers conditional dual enrollment with Rowan University depending on GPA. While then GCC took the Rowan name, the community college maintains its independence with its own Board of Trustees and administration.RCSJ has articulation and credit transfer agreements with many area and online colleges and universities, and several dual enrollment agreements. Academic areas include Nursing and Allied Health (an area with selective admissions, unlike most other programs), the Gloucester County Police Academy and related degrees, and continuing education. As of February 2012, RCSJ has about 266 acres (1.1 km2) of grounds on the main Gloucester Campus, on which are twelve buildings, two of which include the headquarters of other Gloucester County organizations. It has an art gallery, a walking and jogging trail, and community gardens. Student life at the college includes KotoriCon, an anime convention, as well as many other activities.