Glassboro

Glassboro, borough (town), Gloucester county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It lies 17 miles (27 km) south of Camden. Hollybush (1849), the home of the president of Rowan College of New Jersey (1923; formerly Glassboro State College), was the site of a meeting in 1967 between the U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson and the Soviet premier Aleksey Kosygin. The borough’s settlement began in 1775 when Catherine Stanger and her seven sons built a glass factory there,...