"This is the Adams House. Lewis Adams, born in 1864 married Olive Verginia Cale (1867), daughter of Captain John Cale in 1893. He built this home in the 1890's where the family lived for 25 years. He was the schoolmaster at the Lower Bank school."

"At the height of his personal triumph, Lewis Adams hung himself in the barn behind his home on the 21st of February, 1927."

"One of his daughters found him. No one knows why he did it. The Old Lower Bank School is now one of the shops that is part of the Historic Town of Smithville in Galloway township Atlantic county. It was moved there in the 1960's."

"It should be interesting to note that it is believed that the Adams property was the site of Eric Mullica's homestead. "

                                                                                                                          - James Pullaro