Burlington Township

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Burlington Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Philadelphia. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township’s population was 22,594, reflecting an increase of 2,300 (+11.3%) from the 20,294 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 7,840 (+63.0%) from the 12,454 counted in the 1990 Census.

History

Burlington was formed as a “Towne” by the West Jersey proprietors, and was interrelated to Burlington City during its early days. It was incorporated on February 21, 1798 by the Township Act of 1798, enacted by the New Jersey Legislature, as one of the initial group of 104 townships incorporated in New Jersey. Burlington City was reincorporated within the township as of March 14, 1851, at which time a portion of the township was annexed to the city. The township’s name is a corruption of the English town of Bridlington.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 13.98 square miles (36.209 km2), including 13.415 square miles (34.745 km2) of land and 0.565 square miles (1.463 km2) of water (4.04%).

Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Deacons, Fountain Woods, Springside and Stevens.

The township borders Burlington City, Edgewater Park, Florence Township, Springfield Township, Westampton Township and Willingboro Township in Burlington County; and both Bristol and Bristol Township across the Delaware River in Pennsylvania.

Economy

Burlington Coat Factory has its headquarters in the township, having relocated from Burlington City in 1988.

The Marketplace at Burlington, formerly an indoor mall known as the Burlington Center Mall, offers a gross leasable area of 670,000 square feet (62,000 m2), with plans to convert to an open-air format with 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m2) of leasable space. The mall closed its doors on January 8, 2018, though Sears remained while the rest of the mall was closed because it owned a section of mall property. Sears closed on September 2, 2018.

Community

The Neulander murder occurred in Cherry Hill. Rabbi Fred Neulander was convicted of paying two men to carry out a “hit” on his wife Carol Neulander, who was murdered in the family home in 1994. He was sentenced to a prison term of 30 years to life.

Springdale Farms is Cherry Hill’s only working farm.

Barclay Farm House, a farm house constructed in 1816 and listed on the National and New Jersey registers of historic places.

Cherry Hill was the home of four of the five members of the Fort Dix 5, who were convicted in federal court in Camden on December 22, 2008 on a plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix. The Cherry Hill members are Dritan Duka, 30, Shain Duka, 27, and Eljvir Duka, 25, as well as Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 23. Ages were at the time of conviction.

Parks and recreation

Cherry Hill has 51 public parks, plus three parks owned by Camden County. Most parks have playground equipment, basketball courts, tennis courts, walking paths, and athletic fields. Croft Farm, which was originally a working mill and farm, is the only park with an arts center. It was originally built in 1753, and is a historic landmark in Cherry Hill. The farmhouse underwent many changes throughout the years, including an expansion in 1816. The property was sold to the township in 1985. It was formed into the Cherry Hill Arts Center in 1995, which serves the community for art classes, seminars, and concerts produced by the Cherry Hill Recreation Department.

Toward the last two weeks of April, one can see a two-mile avenue of continuous rows of cherry blossoms on Chapel Avenue between Haddonfield Road and Kings Highway. The avenue of cherry blossoms was conceived by a group of residents who wanted to unify the townspeople of Cherry Hill to participate in a community-wide celebration of the diverse community of Cherry Hill. This effort started in 1972 and cherry trees are still being planted every year by the Cherry Hill Fire Department and community volunteers.

Golf courses

Merchantville Country Club is a private country club in Cherry Hill. Woodcrest Country Club was sold at a bankruptcy auction in spring 2013, and is now a semi-private club open to the public.

Public library

At 72,000 square feet (6,700 m2), the Cherry Hill Public Library is among the largest municipal libraries in New Jersey. The current facility was completed in December 2004 to replace the 1966 Malcolm Wells-designed structure at 1100 King’s Highway North. The library is an agency of the Township’s municipal government.

Education

Public school students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade are educated in the Burlington Township School District, under superintendent Mary Ann Bell. As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its four schools had an enrollment of 4,060 students and 314.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1. Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are B. Bernice Young Elementary School (899 students in grades pre-K to 2nd grade), Fountain Woods Elementary School (878; 3-5), Burlington Township Middle School at Springside (913; 6-8) and Burlington Township High School (1,297; 9-12).

The Burlington Township School District received notice in 2009 after a video posted on YouTube by a parent without school approval showed more than a dozen children at B. Bernice Young Elementary School singing a song praising President Barack Obama, which Conservative groups cited as a means of indoctrinating students to support the President. At the conclusion of the song, the children pump their fists and chant “hip, hip, hooray!” The song had been performed in conjunction with Black History Month activities and when the author of the book I Am Barack Obama visited the school the next month.

Students from Burlington Township, and from all of Burlington County, are eligible to attend the Burlington County Institute of Technology, a countywide public school district that serves the vocational and technical education needs of students at the high school and post-secondary level at its campuses in Medford and Westampton Township.

Transportation

NJ Transit provides bus service in the city between Trenton and Philadelphia on the 409 route and between Burlington and Camden on the 413 and 419 routes.

The NJ Transit River Line light rail system provides transportation between the Trenton Transit Center in Trenton and the Walter Rand Transportation Center (and other stations) in Camden, with stops in Burlington City at Burlington South and Burlington Towne Centre, but not in Burlington Township itself.

Courtesy of Wikipedia.org

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