Mullica Hill Asparagus Fest

05/17/2026

A huge shoutout to all of our chefs for this years Asparagus Festival 💚

We loved every bit of everything!! 😊

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Thank you to our amazing vendors and the Harrison Township Historical Society. With our you this festival would not be possible! 💚

We can’t wait for next year 😊

05/16/2026

A big shoutout to our Celebrity Judges!! 💚

05/16/2026

Congratulations to Marinos in Mullica Hill for winning this year’s battle of the chefs at the Asparagus Festival! 💚

Your dish was SPEAR-tastic! 😊

Thank you to all who voted and participated today!

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Love a good collaboration of local businesses! 💜

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After your asparagus come to blueplate pergola for a bonesaw beer! 🍻

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Weather is looking nice and beautiful today 😎☀️

PERFECT for an asparagus festival 💚

Swipe for more information for today!

Get your tickets now at MullicaHillAsparagusFest.com 😊

05/16/2026

Mullica Hill, NJ. Largest shipping point east of the Mississippi for asparagus and fruit.

A child born in Mullica Hill around 1870 would have watched the entire era come and go.

In their earliest years, they would have seen asparagus leave town the way it had for generations: by horse and wagon, on dirt roads to wherever the next leg of transport waited. Then in 1879, the Reading Railroad arrived. A station went up in the center of town, and within a few years it transformed everything.

By the time they were adults, Mullica Hill had become something extraordinary. Gloucester County was producing more asparagus than any other county in America. Crews worked the station every cutting day, loading crates into boxcars bound for Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. The postcard below said it plainly: this was the largest shipping point for asparagus and fruit east of the Mississippi River.

Now in their fifties, they watched an airplane take off from a local farm in May of 1922 with 800 pounds of asparagus aboard, bound for Boston. The flight made national headlines because it was a first, and their neighbors talked about it for years. But it was a single news story in a town that was shipping thousands of pounds a day by rail.

Then, in their later years, the trains began to slow. Trucking companies opened, and the freight that had been the station's business for half a century moved to the highways. The boxcars stopped coming, and the platform emptied. By the time their grandchildren were grown, the era they had watched build was already gone.

This is the postcard that survived it.

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