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4AA COURIER-POST, Thursday, May 18, 2000 COMMUNITIES. Service for Woodford planned Courier-Post Staff f. JmW 4 -J MEDFORD Preparations are underway for a Memorial Service to honor the memory of Elizabeth Woodford, the founder of the Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge on Sawmill road. The service will be held 1 p.m., Sunday, outdoors at the refuge, a day before Mrs. Woodford's birthday.

She died in November of natural causes. She was 83. Mrs. Woodford and her husband bought the refuge's 185 acres in the early 1950's. She became an accomplished botanist and photographer who was expert on the Pine Barrens.

She turned to activism and through her lectures and efforts helped protect the Pinelands. After educating hundreds about the Pine Barrens and the life within it, people began bringing orphaned and injured wildlife to Mrs. Woodford. The refuge actually started in her kitchen. Eventually, the refuge would include an animal hospital and the Elizabeth Woodford Pine Barrens Education Center.

Mrs. Woodfords efforts an community mindedness also led her to become the first woman to be elected to township council. t. I -i 1 J1 fc 4. Marlton considering rebuilding rail station By MIKE DANIELS Courier Post Staff MARLTON The last Ida Teti, 82, recalls of the Philadelphia, Marlton, Medford Railroad running through Marlton was when it crashed into a car on the tracks.

She was 14 and, as Teti recalls, it was the last day the train crossed through the rural community before the rail line went idle. Sixty eight years later, Teti, who lives at the Christian Retirement Community on Main Street, still has a long standing lament. "I never had the privilege of riding on it I would have liked to," Teti said. Years after suburb tracts replaced memories of the rail line, the town is once again dusting off its hopes of rebuilding the rail line's Marlton train station. Julie Gandy, a 30-year resident of the town and member of the Historical Preservation Commission, said it might be possible to rebuild Cropwell Station near Cooper Avenue and Route 70, depending on what land the town can acquire from the Department of Transportation for the project.

1 "That's the first step, getting the land from the DOT," Gandy said. I Originally located near the intersection of Cropwell Road and Route 70, the small wood-frame station was moved to an old farm on Taunton Lake Road across from King's Grant some time after the railroad shut down in 1931. In 1988, when builders were clearing the lot to begin construction on the CVS Pharmacy shopping center, the run-down station was accidently plowed under while a bulldozer was demolishing a cranberry barn. The driver did not know the dilapidated station had historical value and was going to be given to the Historical Preservation Commission for renovation. To atone for the mistake, the developers, Site Development paid $6,000 in fines and donated $14,000 to the township Historic r.

'iifMBi fiiiir-ninrnin-iiffirtrir-iiinT--' I This photograph of a train at the old Cropwell station hangs In the main meeting room of Martton's municipal building. The Philadelphia, Medford, Marlton rail line shut down in 1931 and local historians are now considering rebuilding one of the old rail stations. Correction She tried to get a look at the accident but some adults turned her away, telling her the scene was to gruesome for a little girl. "They stopped me. They wouldn't let me go down and see it," Teti said of the event.

In a way, the crash may have been an appropriate ending for a railroad line that came to such a crashing halt only 50 years after being built. An example of this is the train line that once ran through here in the days when Evesham Township consisted of a small hamlet, known as Marlton Village, and an expanse of farms surrounded by thick forests. For 50 years the Philadelphia, Marlton and Medford Railroad cut through the rural wilderness, stretching from the railroad's major junction in Haddonfield to its end at the Mount Holly, Lumberton and Medford Railroad in Medford. The route was a forebearer of the traffic that was to come through the now congested area. Today, nothing of the line is left in Marlton.

The tracks would roughly follow Route 70 if they still existed. The three township stations, which once stood at Cropwell Road, Marlton Village and Elm-wood Road, are gone too. The only real reminders that the railroad even existed are two large pictures of the Cropwell and Marlton stations that hang in the councilcourt chamber at the municipal building. As fond as Teti is of those memories, she has no illusions that the rail line itself could be useful once more. "People want to get out of work and jump in a car and get home.

They don't want to wait for a train today But building the station again is a nice idea," Teti said. Teti thinks rebuilding the station is a good idea. For her, it will be all the easier to remember Marlton's rural past. Teti was 14 years old when the Philadelphia, Marlton and Medford Railroad Company folded in 1931. Now 82, she wishes she would have gotten the chance to ride the train that came steaming through Marlton several times a day, dropping off and picking up passengers, including her aunt and uncle who worked in Philadelphia.

Although she now lives at the Wiley Christian Retirement Community on Main Street, at the time the train was running she lived with her parents in a big white house, also on Main Street, which today sits next to the Evesham Fire and Rescue Company. Teti remembers that the last day the train came through it hit a car on the tracks and sent everyone in the rural town running to the scene. Preservation Commission to rebuild the station. However, even though plans were drawn for rebuilding the station, it was never done. Gandy and Paul Garver, chairman of the Historic Preservation Commission, are thinking about finally putting the money to use.

"To bring some of the history back to the area is good. A lot of people don't know that there was a train that came through here along (Route) 70," Gandy said. She thinks the rebuilt 12-foot by 10-foot station could make a nice addition to the historic downtown. "We could have information there for people and it could be kind of a gateway to the historic district," she said. "During the fall festival we could have displays and information there and it could be used by the crafters who set up on Cooper Street," Gandy added.

"Lunches of Love" is the name of a food drive for underprivileged children held last week at Med-ford's Memorial Middle School. The program was misidentified in a story on Page 4 of the May 11 Communities section. Also, the person behind the project, Melissa Roughgarden, attended Memorial School 25 years ago. When the Courier-Post makes an error, we will correct it promptly. If clarification of a point is necessary, we will do so.

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