Moorestown, New Jersey

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Moorestown is a township in Burlington County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is an eastern suburb of Philadelphia and geographically part of the South Jersey region of the state. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 21,355, its highest decennial census count ever and an increase of 629 (+3.0%) from the 2010 census count of 20,726, which in turn had reflected an increase of 1,709 (+9.0%) from the 19,017 counted at the 2000 census. The township, and all of Burlington County, is a part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Moorestown was authorized to be incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 11, 1922, from portions of Chester Township (now Maple Shade Township), subject to the approval of voters in the affected area in a referendum. Voters approved the creation on April 25, 1922. The township is named for a Thomas Moore who settled in the area in 1722 and constructed a tavern called Moore's Tavern, though other sources...

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