Edgewater Park Township’s post office opened in 1881, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940
More historic than 54% of U.S. towns · #285 of 468 in New Jersey. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Coopertown Meetinghouse, the Beverly National Cemetery and the Red Dragon Canoe Club. Below: maps from 1942 on and the census since 1930.
The Edgewater Park Township post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1924. Another post office, Edgewater Park (1881), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 1,243 in 19302020 census: 8,930145 years
How historic is Edgewater Park Township?
B−
More historic than 54% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Edgewater Park Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1924.
History grade
What drives Edgewater Park Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Edgewater Park Township is more historic than 54% of U.S. towns, #285 of 468 in New Jersey. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Edgewater Park Township’s overall grade.
New Jersey towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New Jersey town has 3.7 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Edgewater Park Township’s 6.7 sits near the middle of its state (62% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 6 historic buildings outnumber those of 72% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.7 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date; Wikidata gives 1924.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Edgewater Park Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Another post office, Edgewater Park, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Capitol HillCooperstownEdgewater Park
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Edgewater Park Township
Beverly NationalMonument
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Edgewater Park Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Edgewater Park Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Edgewater Park is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey and a northeastern suburb of Philadelphia within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 8,930, an increase of 49 (+0.6%) from the 2010 census count of 8,881, which in turn reflected an increase of 1,017 (+12.9%) from the 7,864 counted in the 2000 census. The township, and all of Burlington County, is a part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Edgewater Park was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 26, 1924, from portions of Beverly Township (now known as Delanco Township).} The township was named for i…
Its first post office opened in 1881. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 8,881 in 2010, 8,930 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Edgewater Park Township, 1806 to 1981
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Edgewater Park Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1942Burlington sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Edgewater Park Township.
On the National Register
3 historic places in Edgewater Park Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
The Edgewater Park Township post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1924.
How does Edgewater Park Township rank for history?
Edgewater Park Township is more historic than 54% of U.S. towns, #285 of 468 in New Jersey. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Edgewater Park Township?
Three places: the Coopertown Meetinghouse (listed 1978), the Beverly National Cemetery (1997) and the Red Dragon Canoe Club (2001).
How old are the homes in Edgewater Park Township?
12% of Edgewater Park Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.7 points), against a typical 15% for a New Jersey town; the median home was built in 1969.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikidata (3), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
