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1018:, July 17, 2011. Accessed September 8, 2014. "Once home to the State Village for Epileptics and a succession of state mental health hospitals, the self-sustaining little village once bustled on grounds that included a theater and its own fire department and power plant."
1036:, The Neglected Books Page, May 27, 2012. Accessed February 13, 2013. "When Baker retired in the mid-1930s, she, Wylie, and another pioneering female physician, Dr. Louise Pearce, bought Trevenna Farm, outside Skillman, New Jersey, and lived there together."
1093:, August 20, 2018. Accessed April 10, 2023. "Louis Gambaccini, a former state transportation commissioner and the first chairman of NJ Transit's board, died at his home in Skillman on Sunday, the agency announced Monday. He was 87."
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