page_title: Cherry Hill, New Jersey
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Cherry Hill, New Jersey / History
caption_attribution_description: English: HOUSE WAS BUILT OF FLEMISH BOND SOMETIME IN THE EARLY 19TH C BY JOSEPH THORNE, A QUAKER. HE LOST THE HOUSE BECAUSE OF DEBTS AND IT PASSED INTO THE COOPER FAMILY, ONE OF WHOM MARRIED A BARCLAY AND ACQUIRED THE FARM; This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 78001753
context_page_description: Cherry Hill is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a population of 71,045, reflecting an increase of 1,080 from the 69,965 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 617 from the 69,348 counted in the 1990 Census. As of 2010, the township was the state's 15th most populous municipality and the second-largest in Camden County, after having been the state's 13th most populous municipality in the 2000 Census. An edge city of Philadelphia, Cherry Hill is situated on the Delaware Valley coastal plain, approximately 8 miles southeast of Center City, Philadelphia.
context_section_description: The area now known as Cherry Hill was originally settled by the Lenni-Lenape Native Americans before being displaced by the first settlers from England, namely Quaker followers of William Penn who arrived in the late 17th century. 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. Portions of the township were taken to form Stockton Township (February 23, 1859) and Merchantville (March 3, 1874). At its territorial peak, Delaware Township included all of modern-day Cherry Hill Township, as well as the neighborhood of North Camden and the municipalities of Merchantville and Pennsauken (including Petty's Island in the Delaware River).
  The township's population grew rapidly after World War II, and continued to increase until the 1980s. Today, the municipality's population is stable with new development generally occurring in pockets of custom luxury houses or through the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of commercial and industrial areas.
caption: The Barclay Farm House, built in 1816 and added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1978
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