Bushwick Village

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I've never heard of this name for what appears to be a section of South Toms River, on South Main Street, but the 1920 census enumerator referred to it that way in the Berkeley census. It's listed as an 'unincorporated village'

Eventually I plan to transcribe the census for this 'town', but for now here are the names of some of the families who resided there in 1920:
Gardner and Sarah Smith
Job Hand
Gustave Hockaway
Howard Hans
Leslie Smith
Charles P. Horner
Jefferson and Anna Thompson
Brazilla Luker
Leroy and Lydia Evernham
Mary Cotten
Edith and Arthur O'Hare
William A. Chamberlain
Harvey and Rose Irons
Joseph and Mary A. Walton
Bessie Borden
Several of the older children of these families worked at a shirt factory, presumably somewhere nearby. The census lists about 2 1/2 pages of names, about fifty homes, in this village in 1920.
Location: South Toms River, NJ, USA

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