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.Ĭherry Hill was a 19th-century farm on Kaighn Avenue ( Route 38), owned by Abraham Browning. The township's population grew rapidly after World War II and continued to increase until the 1980s. 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). Portions of the township were taken to form Stockton Township (February 23, 1859) and Merchantville (March 3, 1874). 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 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 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. National Register of Historic Places in 1978 History Barclay Farm House, built in 1816 and added to the U.S. The previous decline of downtown Camden spawned the transformation of Cherry Hill Township into an edge city and one of the Delaware Valley’s main commercial centers, including the prominent Cherry Hill Mall being located in Cherry Hill Mall CDP within the township. Ĭherry Hill Township is a suburb of Philadelphia and is part of South Jersey and the Delaware Valley (Greater Philadelphia) metropolitan statistical area. As of 2020, the township was the state's 12th most populous municipality, and the largest in Camden County, after having been the state's 14th most-populous municipality and the county's second largest in the 2010 Census, having surpassed both Brick Township, as well as nearby Camden, within the previous decade, and was ranked 13th in 2000. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 74,553, an increase of 3,508 (+4.9%) from the 2010 census count of 71,045, which in turn reflected an increase of 1,080 (+1.5%) from the 69,965 counted in the 2000 census. Cherry Hill is a township within Camden County, in the U.S.

Evesham township property tax records