With school cancellations in play, it’s the perfect time to wax poetic on our nation’s strangest school closing. It took place within a nearby area now called Galloway Township. Specifically, it relates to a jut of land known as Leeds Point, and a time when the Leeds family settled there, building a large, still-standing stone mansion.
To get a proper feel for the following absolutely true event, it’s essential to unloose a famed, fully phantasmagoric backstory going back to the 1700s, when the…
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