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- ↑ L. P. Nelson (May 2002), "Review: The New Jersey Churchscape", Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, American Library Association, ISBN 9780813529905 , retrieved 2013-01-23,
Greenagel has produced an illustrated gazetteer to New Jersey's early places of worship. The three main chapters--each dedicated to one of the state's three regions, the Hudson River, the Delaware River, and the Raritan Valley--present 225 places of worship.
- ↑ "The New Jersey Churchscape". Rutgers University Press. Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
- 1 2 "First Comes the Church". New York Times . January 13, 2002. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
... Mr. Greenagel spent five years researching and photographing many of the state's 1,100 churches from the 18th and 19th centuries, and his book includes 225 of them with commentary.