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Photo: Zeete · CC BY-SA 4.0More historic than 88% of U.S. towns · #77 of 468 in New Jersey. What drives it
10 places in town are on the National Register, among them six historic districts with 351 buildings between them. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1890 on, and the census since 1810.
Tewksbury Township dates its founding to 1798 (Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history agree). The census first counted it in 1810.
More historic than 88% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tewksbury Township is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #77 of 468 in New Jersey. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings 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 Tewksbury Township’s 599 sits above most of its state (96% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 353 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. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Four 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 Tewksbury Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Tewksbury Township.
The area was originally settled by the Lenape Native Americans. European settlement began in 1708, when George Willocks acquired land from the Lenape in the area, followed by an acquisition by the proprietors of West Jersey of a tract covering 100,000 acres (160 mi2; 400 km2).
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.
In the archiveTewksbury (Township)
BuiltHollow Brook Road Bridge over tributary of the Lamington River is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
BuiltPalatine Road Brige over a minor tributary of the Lamington River is built
Born hereAlison Haislip is born hereOne decade in the archive so far: the 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tewksbury 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 Tewksbury Township.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tewksbury Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Lost half of its people between 1860 and 1930, then grew 5-fold.
22 censuses, 1810–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Tewksbury Township’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1798, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Tewksbury Township’s post office opened in 1795, and the census of 1810 counted 1,308 people here.
Tewksbury Township is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #77 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.
10 listings: 2 buildings, among them the Kline Farmhouse (listed 1984, the first), 6 historic districts with 351 contributing buildings, and 3 structures. 353 historic buildings in all.
12% of Tewksbury Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.5 points), against a typical 15% for a New Jersey town; the median home was built in 1978.
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 (6), Wikidata (11), the National Register of Historic Places (11), 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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