Cherry Hill Township, New Jersey
N 39° 55.606 W 075° 01.795
18S E 497443 N 4419629
Incorporated as Delaware Twp. on February 28, 1844, this town was later renamed Cherry Hill Twp. on November 7, 1961. Welcome to my home town!
Waymark Code: WM365W
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 02/16/2008
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The area now known as Cherry Hill was originally settled by the Lenni-Lenape Native Americans who coexisted peacefully with the first settlers from the British Isles, Quaker followers of William Penn who arrived in the late 1600s. The first settlement was a small cluster of homes named Colestown, in the perimeters of what is now the Colestown Cemetery on the corner of Route 41 (King's Highway) and Church Road. The municipality was founded on February 25, 1844, in Gloucester County as Delaware Township from half of the area of Waterford Township, and became part of Camden County at its creation some two weeks later on March 13, 1844.
The township underwent explosive growth in the post-World War II era, with continued population growth until the 1980s. Today, the municipality's population remains stable with new development generally occurring in small pockets of custom luxury homes or through the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of existing commercial and industrial areas.