Just ran across something I thought was interesting, and decided to share it with the list. Having lived all my life in Gloucester City (except for 2 years in Woodbury as a newly wed), I'm surprised that I never heard about this particular use of what I always called the Coast Guard Station, and my parents always called the Immigration Station. When I was a kid, Gloucester had a USCG base on the Delaware River, which had started its life as an immigration station. While browsing the 1920 census for Gloucester City, I found a page that listed 19 names of the "men quartered in barracks at Gloucester City, NJ, at the US Naval Air Craft Station". It's the "Naval Air Craft Station" that took me completely by surprise. This was 1920, just 2 years after the end of WWI, and airplanes just weren't an everyday occurrence in America at that time, were they? With all the stories I heard from my parents and grandparents about Gloucester City, I just would have expected to have heard about this before now. Does anyone else have any info about it? I'll post the names just in case they can be of some help to anyone. McAvoy, Lloyd L., head, M, W, marital status and age unknown, b. PA, father born PA, mother born PA, Sergeant, United States Marine Corp Waddell, Edward R., M, W, 28, S, b. NY, father NY, mother NY, USMC Ritter, Earl R., M, W, 30, S, b. PA, father PA, mother PA, USMC Greer, William E., M, W, 30, S, b. OH, father OH, mother OH, USMC Hart, Elmer E., M, W, 24, S, b. PA, father PA, mother PA, USMC Licks, Theodore, M, W, 21, M, b. NJ, father NY, mother NY, USMC Hartman, Joseph C., M, W, 21, S, b. OH, father KY, mother KY, USMC Buffum, Leroy E., M, W, 21, S, b. NY, father NY, mother NY, USMC White, Ralph, M, W, 24, S, b. SC, father NC, mother NC, USMC Redick, L??? H., M, W, 39, S, b. NY, father NY, mother NY, USMC Harding, James R., M, W, 20, M, b. OH, father OH, mother OH, USMC Keyser, Roscoe H., M, W, 32, S, b. PA, father PA, mother PA, USMC Marshman, Ernest D., M, W, 21, S, b. GA, father GA, mother GA, USMC Sherman, William, M, W, 21, S, b. AL, father England, mother IL, USMC Rutherford, William C., M, W, 22, S, b. TX, father TN, mother TX, USMC Geil, George L., M, W, 20, S, b. Canada (years of immigration and naturalization unknown), father Germany, mother Canada, USMC, Zeluski, Stephen J., M, W, 30, S, b. NY, father Poland, mother Poland, USMC Garrett, Walter P., M, W, 31, M, b. MA, father MA, mother MA, USMC Montague, Peter R., M, W, 22, S, b. NY, father Ireland, mother Ireland, USMC Janet T. Smith Gloucester City, NJ [email protected] Torpey/Tarpy, Flannery* Riley, Wallace* Dazey/Daisey, McComrick, Handcock/Hancock (in DE)* Tonkin, Miller, Rambo* Hughes, Sithens, Nieukirk, TenEyck* Wilson, Andrews, Clare, Kurtz*