Renovation Nearing Completion of Alliance Chapel for First Successful Jewish Agricultural Community in United States

Photo by Lizzie Nealis/Stockton University

(PITTSGROVE TOWNSHIP, NJ) — Since Stockton University created the Alliance Heritage Center in 2019, it has collected about 1,000 historical photos, memoirs, letters and memorabilia about the first successful Jewish agricultural community in the United States.

Soon, the story of the Salem County colony just on the other side of the Maurice River from Vineland will have a newly renovated place to call home.

“We have the Alliance Heritage Center Digital Museum and documents in Stockton’s Special Collections, but we just really wanted to have this physical interpretation of public history,” said Patty Chappine, a Stockton adjunct professor and Rudnick Fellow studying the history of the colony.

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