page_title: Moorestown, New Jersey
section_title: Government
hierarchical_section_title: Moorestown, New Jersey / Government
caption_attribution_description: A view of Moorestown Township, New Jersey taken from an airplane.
context_page_description: Moorestown is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and an eastern suburb of Philadelphia. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 20,726, reflecting an increase of 1,709 from the 19,017 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 2,901 from the 16,116 counted in the 1990 Census.
  Moorestown was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 11, 1922, from portions of Chester Township, based on the results of a referendum held on April 25, 1922. The township is named for a Thomas Moore who settled in the area in 1722 and constructed a hotel though other sources attribute the name to poet Thomas Moore.
  The township banned all liquor sales in 1915 and retained the restrictions after Prohibition ended in 1933. Referenda aiming to repeal the ban failed in both 1935 and 1953. In 2007, the township council approved a referendum that would allow the sale by auction of six liquor licenses, with estimates that each license could sell over $1 million each. The referendum did not receive enough votes to pass.
caption: Aerial view of Moorestown
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