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More historic than 97% of U.S. towns · #22 of 468 in New Jersey. What drives it
8 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 342 buildings. Below: maps from 1888 on and the census since 1930.
Moorestown Township dates its founding to 1682 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1930.
More historic than 97% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Moorestown Township is more historic than 97% of U.S. towns, #22 of 468 in New Jersey. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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 Moorestown Township’s 165 sits above most of its state (90% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 355 historic buildings outnumber those of 96% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (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.
The 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Moorestown Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Moorestown 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 Moorestown Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Moorestown Township.
Main Street is located along a ridge historically occupied by the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. Two natural springs, one to the west (off Main Street before reaching the Perkins Center for the Arts, just by Roberts Elementary School) and one to the east (off North Stanwick Road) drew Native Americans and traders to the area.
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.
BuiltMoorestown Friends School and Meetinghouse is built
Born hereJohn S. Collins is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyBuiltBreidenhart is builtWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Grew from 7,247 people in 1930 to 21,355 in 2020.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Moorestown Township’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Another post office, Stanwick, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1682, according to Wikidata. Moorestown Township’s post office opened in 1800, and the census of 1930 counted 7,247 people here.
Moorestown Township is more historic than 97% of U.S. towns, #22 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.
8 listings: 7 buildings, among them the Smith Mansion (listed 1976, the first), and 1 historic district, the Moorestown Historic District, with 342 contributing buildings. 355 historic buildings in all.
21% of Moorestown Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.8 points), against a typical 15% for a New Jersey town; the median home was built in 1969.
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 Wikidata (6), the National Register of Historic Places (8), 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.
