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More historic than 60% of U.S. towns · #250 of 468 in New Jersey. What drives it
5 places in town are on the National Register, among them the Camp Evans, a National Historic Landmark, and three historic districts with 42 buildings between them. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1888 on, and the census since 1860.
Wall Township dates its founding to 1851 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1860.
More historic than 60% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Wall Township is more historic than 60% of U.S. towns, #250 of 468 in New Jersey. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age 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 Wall Township’s 17.7 sits above most of its state (75% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 47 historic buildings outnumber those of 84% 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.
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 Wall Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wall 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 Wall Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Wall Township.
The Greenville Cemetery was established in 1734, when a casualty of the French and Indian War was buried there. The original structure of the Glendola Protestant Bible Church was built in 1776; The congregation dedicated a new church in 1964.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Wall Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
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Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveWall (Township); Squan Village (Village); Wall Business Notices.; New Bedford (Village)
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
BuiltAllaire Village is built
Born hereEmily Grove is born hereOne decade in the archive so far: the 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2026Wall Township, NJ Police Department, April 2026
2026Wall Township, NJ Municipal Building, April 2026
2026Wall Township, NJ Board of Education offices, July 20…
2026Wall Township Public Library exterior
2026Wall Intermediate School entrance and electronic sign
2026Silk City Diner Serial Plate, Roadside Diner
2026Silk City Diner Roadside Diner
2026Flying insect landing on flowers on the field behind …
2024Wall Township Municipal Building
2020Historic Rowhouses
2016Shark River at Shark River County Park
2016Shark River and Bridge Loop Trail at Shark River Coun…
2016Shark River Sunset
2015The Circus Drive-In
2015Lowe's Express Wall Township, NJ 2
2011FreeholdJamesburgTrail
2010PineCreekRailroadwithLicence
2009Eating dinner at Shogun Legends with family
2006The Big Circus Tent Is Open in Wall Township, New Jer…
2006Eat In Your Car at the Circus Drive-In
2005Wall twp nj 025No 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 Wall Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. One is a National Historic Landmark, the highest tier. 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.
Grew from 2,283 people in 1860 to 26,525 in 2020, more than tenfold.
17 censuses, 1860–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Wall 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.
In 1851, according to Wikidata. Wall Township’s post office opened in 1854, and the census of 1860 counted 2,283 people here.
Wall Township is more historic than 60% of U.S. towns, #250 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.
5 listings: 2 buildings and 3 historic districts, the Camp Evans, the Allaire Village and the Camp Evans Historic District, with 42 contributing buildings. 47 historic buildings in all.
11% of Wall Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.3 points), against a typical 15% for a New Jersey town; the median home was built in 1976.
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 (23), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (5), 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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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