Riverside Township
Riverside, NJ | View Map Riverside is located at the confluence of the Delaware River and Rancocas Creek, an important interior waterway since prehistoric times. Once a bustling industrial center, today it is primarily residential and has a diverse population of around 7,000. It is a compact town with an area of less than two […]
Delanco Township
Delanco, NJ | View Map This compact residential community is strategically positioned at the confluence of the Delaware River and Rancocas Creek, which has been an important waterway since prehistoric times. English Quakers began farming here in the 1670s but it remained a sparsely populated corner of Burlington County until the land boom in the […]
Edgewater Park Township
Edgewater Park, NJ | View Map Prior to 1924, there was no Edgewater Park Township. Edgewater Park was an extension of Beverly’s fashionable riverside residential district, with large homes on deep lots. Today the township’s riverfront is still a private residential area. In 1924, the New Jersey legislature created Edgewater Park Township from Beverly Township […]
Beverly City
Beverly, NJ | View Map Beverly began as a ferry crossing and transportation continued to be a major theme in this small borough’s history. Today’s Beverly encompasses two earlier settlements. A small crossroads community grew up around the New Jersey terminus of Dunk’s Ferry, an important river crossing created in the 1690s for the first […]
Burlington City
View Map With an area less than four square miles and a population of around 10,000, this small municipality ranks as one of New Jersey’s most historic towns. Until the seventeenth century, the Lenapi of the Delaware nation were the sole human inhabitants. Both Dutch and Swedish traders explored the area in the early 1600s. […]
U.S. Pipe & Foundry, Burlington City
1101 East Pearl Street, Burlington, NJ | View Map Southern New Jersey’s plentiful supplies of water, wood, and bog ore provided the essential ingredients for iron making, one of the state’s earliest and most important industries. In the nineteenth century, cast iron pipe became one of the key specialty products in the Delaware Valley, and […]
Burlington Island
Burlington, NJ | View Map Burlington Island lies directly opposite the city of Burlington and the histories of the two places have been intertwined for centuries. The island is identified as Mattinecunck Island on early maps and is the site of one of New Jersey’s first European settlements. The 300-acre island has changed ownership many […]
Florence Township
View Map Located along the Delaware River on the northern boundary of Burlington County, Florence Township is one of the county’s smallest townships, with an area of 9.65 square miles. Created in 1872, the township was originally part of Mansfield Township. Florence is also the name of the original settlement. Roebling, a former company town […]
Francis Hopkinson House, Bordentown City
101 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, NJ | View Map This handsome Georgian style mansion was the Bordentown home of the illustrious Hopkinson family. It is designated as a National Historic Landmark, but is still privately owned. The first Hopkinson to live here was American statesman and man of letters, Francis Hopkinson. Born in Philadelphia, Francis Hopkinson […]
Mansfield Township
Created in 1688, Mansfield Township is one of the original townships in Burlington County. The township was incorporated by the state in 1798 and until the mid 1800s encompassed Fieldsboro, Bordentown and Florence townships. Mansfield is bordered on the west by the Delaware River. It now contains slightly more than twenty-three square miles of mostly […]