Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 44% of U.S. towns · #340 of 468 in New Jersey. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Old Kentuck and the Old Scots Burying Ground. Most of Marlboro Township was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1987. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1888 on, and the census since 1850.
The Marlboro Township post office opened in 1834, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1848. Two smaller post offices, Robertsville (1862) and Bradevelt (1883), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 44% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Marlboro Township is more historic than 44% of U.S. towns, #340 of 468 in New Jersey. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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 Marlboro Township’s 0.5 sits below most of its state (26% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marlboro Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marlboro Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marlboro Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Marlboro Township.
The Lenni Lenape Native Americans were the first known organized inhabitants of this area, having settled here about one thousand years ago and forming an agricultural society, occupying small villages that dotted what was to become Marlboro Township. Their villages were known to be in the Wickatunk and Crawford's Corner sections of the township.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltOld Kentuck is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
Born hereMelissa Rauch is born here
2026Marlboro First Aid Squad rear of building with ambula…
2025The Food Emporium in Marlboro NJ from parking lot 2025
2024Marlboro Township Municipal Complex (ballot drop box)
2021Van Der Veer House in
2021The Food Emporium in Marlboro NJ produce area 2021
2021Marlboro Free Public Library in 2021
2021Dutch Reformed Chapel on Newman Springs Road
2021Congregation Ohey Shalom
2020The Food Emporium in Marlboro NJ open early during pa…
2017Sri Guruvaayoorappan Temple grounds Morganville NJ IM…
2017Sri Guruvaayoorappan Temple Morganville NJIMAG0383
2017Hindu household shrineIMAG0677
2017Hindu household shrine IMAG0560
2017Hindu Satyanarayan pooja shrine IMAG0794
2016Beacon Hill, NJ
2010Once a pride and joy
2009Abandoned bike and bathtub
2008NewJerseyPollingPlace2008
2006MarlboroNJMcMansions
2006Big Brook in
2005MarlboroTownshipMunicipalComplex
2005Marlboro twp nj 025
2005HenryHudsonTrailMarlboroRailsThe country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Grew from 1,564 people in 1850 to 41,502 in 2020, more than tenfold.
18 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Marlboro Township’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Marlboro Township post office opened in 1834, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1848.
Marlboro Township is more historic than 44% of U.S. towns, #340 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.
Two places: the Old Kentuck (listed 1973) and the Old Scots Burying Ground (2001).
2% of Marlboro Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.2 points), against a typical 15% for a New Jersey town; the median home was built in 1987.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 Wikimedia Commons (24), Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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.
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