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OLD PHOTOS: America's Keswick

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From Ocean County, Four Centuries in the Making, by Pauline S. Miller:

"After [William Raws's] first wife and mother had died in England, he remarried and had his children brought to America with his new wife, Dora. They began a rehabilitation program for the drunks they found on the streets of Philadelphia. With the purchase of the old Giberson Mill, which they called the Keswick Colony of Mercy, the Raws restored the old sawmill buildings to provide a haven for others who had ruined their lives with excessive drinking."


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