by KYW's David Madden

Supporters of an historic site in Haddonfield, NJ are banding together, hoping to save it from the state budget axe.

Pull out your Garden State history book and you’ll discover the Indian King Tavern, which served as the location where New Jersey officially became a state in 1777.
 
Today, it’s a museum, but to budget workers in Trenton it’s part of the Brendan Byrne State Forest in Burlington County, which is slated for closure in governor Jon Corzine’s proposed spending plan.

All this makes no sense to Haddonfield mayor Tish Colombi:

"We  are working very hard to hopefully change his mind about reinstating the paltry sum of $57,000 that it takes to keep the Indian King Tavern open for one year."

Colombi is looking to the legislature to perhaps reclassify the tavern out of the Parks Department in an effort to save it.