Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey Map of Egg Harbor Township in Atlantic County.
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Map of Egg Harbor Township in Atlantic County.
Inset: Location of Atlantic County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey Egg Harbor Township is a township in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.
Egg Harbor Township was first mentioned as part of Gloucester County in records dating back to March 20, 1693, and at times was called New Weymouth.
Over the ensuing centuries, portions of the township were taken to problematic many new municipalities: Hamilton Township on February 5, 1813; Atlantic City on May 1, 1854; Absecon on May 1, 1854; South Atlantic City (now Margate City) on September 7, 1885; Pleasantville on January 10, 1889; Linwood on February 20, 1889; Somers Point on April 24, 1886; Longport on March 7, 1898; Ventnor City on March 17, 1903; and Northfield on March 21, 1905. The first inhabitants of what would turn into Egg Harbor Township were the Lenni Lenape Native Americans, who would spend their summers on the elevated territory around the cedar swamp that is now Bargaintown Lake, as well as along the banks of Patcong Creek, where they made use of the abundant fish, shellfish, wild berries, and bird's eggs in the region and collected shells that could be carved to make wampum. In 1694 a law was passed that read "forasmuch as there are families settled upon the Egg Harbor, and of right ought to be under some jurisdiction, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that the inhabitants of the said Egg Harbor shall and do belong to the jurisdiction of Gloucester." In 1710, by an Act of the Legislature, legal boundaries of Gloucester County were set from the Delaware River, along the Burlington County line to the sea and back up the Great Egg Harbor River to the Delaware River. At that time Great Egg Harbor encompassed all of present-day Atlantic County.
In 1837, Atlantic County was set apart from Gloucester County and the Townships were Egg Harbor, Galloway, Hamilton and Weymouth. Since 1837, ten municipalities have separated from the initial Egg Harbor Township, including Atlantic City (1854), Absecon (1872), South Atlantic City (now Margate) (1885), Somers Point (1886), Pleasantville (1888), Linwood (1889), Longport (1898), Brigantine (1903), Ventnor (1903) and Northfield (1905). Portions of the township, prominently the West Atlantic City and Anchorage Poynte areas, are not adjoining to the chief body of the municipality, having been separated from the mainland portion of the township as municipalities were formed, largely since the boroughitis phenomenon in the 1890s. The township is one of 56 South Jersey municipalities that are encompassed inside the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve, a protected natural region of unique ecology covering 1,100,000 acres (450,000 ha), that has been classified as a United States Biosphere Reserve and established by Congress in 1978 as the nation's first National Reserve. Part of the township is encompassed in the state-designated Pinelands Area, which includes portions of Atlantic County, along with areas in Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Ocean counties. Egg Harbor Township includes the unincorporated communities of Bargaintown (the township's seat of government), Cardiff, English Creek, Farmington, Scullville (formerly known as Jeffers), Steelmanville and West Atlantic City, as well as part of Mc - Kee City. Other localities and place names positioned partially or completely inside the township include Devenshire, English Creek Landing, Greenwood, Idlewood, Jeffers Landing, Jobs Point, Jones Island, Mc - Kee City Station, Mount Calvary, Pleasantville Terrace, Pork Island, Rainbow Islands and Sculls Landing. Egg Harbor Township (along with Hamilton and Galloway Townships) were designated as Regional Growth Areas" by the New Jersey Pinelands Commission resulting in increased residentiary development.
The "Regional Growth Area" designation was, and remains, tantamount to a state mandate to construct +/-30,000 additional housing units in Egg Harbor Township.
Neighboring communities, Galloway Township (to the north) and Hamilton Township (to the West) were also designated s "Growth Areas" by the New Jersey Pinelands Commission. On January 22, 2007, the Egg Harbor Township Planning Board issued site approval for 667 new homes (and a new fire station) in the "Farmington" section of Egg Harbor Township.
Pulte Homes will pay over $800,000 to the Egg Harbor Township recreation fund because the club homes and paths do not satisfy the township's recreation requirements for a evolution of this size and, as part of the approval, Pulte will also contribute $350,000 toward the assembly of a new Farmington Fire Station with the landowners, Schoffer Enterprises, donating the land.
The Planning Board has requested that paperwork presented to the homeowners at purchase will "fully disclose" to prospective purchasers that there exists a close-by airport (Atlantic City International Airport, which, in addition to functioning as a full service airport, is home to the 177th wing of the Air National Guard, the FAA Technical Center, a Homeland Security Department Training Center as well as the Atlantic City base of Operations for the United States Coast Guard), meaning they will be in the adjacency of the approach and takeoff patterns for both incoming and outgoing airplane , the Atlantic County Municipal Utility Authority (ACMUA), where all small-town municipalities bring their trash and recycle.
The Township of Egg Harbor is governed under the Township form of New Jersey municipal government.
The five-member Township Committee is propel directly by the voters at-large in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election in a three-year cycle. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are chosen by the Township Committee from among its members amid the Reorganization meeting each January.
Egg Harbor Township is positioned in the 2nd Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 2nd state legislative district. New Jersey's Second Congressional District is represented by Frank Lo - Biondo (R, Ventnor City). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Brown (R, Ventnor City) and Vince Mazzeo (D, Northfield). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). The executive serves a four-year term and the freeholders are propel to staggered three-year terms, of which four are propel from the county on an at-large basis and five of the freeholders represent equally populated districts. As of 2015, Atlantic County's Executive is Republican Dennis Levinson, whose term of office ends December 31, 2015. Members of the Board of Chosen Freeholders are Chairman Frank D.
Formica, Freeholder District 2, including Atlantic City (part), Egg Harbor Township (part), Linwood, Longport, Margate, Northfield, Somers Point and Ventnor (R, 2015), Vice Chairman James A.
Bertino, Freeholder District 5, including Buena Borough, Buena Vista Township, Corbin City, Egg Harbor City, Estell Manor, Folsom, Hamilton Township (part), Hammonton, Mullica Township and Weymouth (R, 2015), Colin G.
Bell, Freeholder At-Large (R, 2015), John Carman, Freeholder District 3, including Egg Harbor Township (part) and Hamilton Township (part) (R, 2017), Ernest D.
Coursey, Freeholder District 1, including Atlantic City (part), Egg Harbor Township (part) and Pleasantville (R, 2016), Richard Dase, Freeholder District 4, including Absecon, Brigantine, Galloway Township and Port Republic (D, 2016), Alexander C.
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 24,922 registered voters in Egg Harbor Township, of which 5,829 (23.4% vs.
The Egg Harbor Township Schools serve enhance school students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Township enhance school students are also eligible to attend the Atlantic County Institute of Technology in Mays Landing or the Charter-Tech High School for the Performing Arts in Somers Point. As of May 2010, the township had a total of 297.22 miles (478.33 km) of roadways, of which 206.73 miles (332.70 km) were maintained by the municipality, 65.46 miles (105.35 km) by Atlantic County, 10.10 miles (16.25 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 14.93 miles (24.03 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and South Jersey Transportation Authority. The Atlantic City Expressway runs through east-west for 5.3 miles (8.5 km) connecting Pleasantville in the east to Hamilton Township in the west and joins at Interchange 7 with the Garden State Parkway (at Interchange 38) that runs through north-south for 8.6 miles (13.8 km) connecting Somers Point in the south to Galloway Township in the north. NJ Transit provides bus service between Egg Harbor Township and Atlantic City on routes 502 (from Atlantic Cape Community College), 507 (from Ocean City), 508 (from Hamilton Mall) and 509 (from Ocean City). See also: Category:People from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.
Mc - Cullough (born 1942), former New Jersey State Senator who has served 24 terms as mayor of Egg Harbor Township. a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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At its conception, Atlantic County had four townships - Egg Harbor, Hamilton, Galloway and Weymouth - and 8164 citizens " "Egg Harbor Township borders leave locals, businesses confused", The Press of Atlantic City, December 27, 2011.
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"Egg Harbor is situated on the Great Egg Harbor river, and contained in 1850 2,689 inhabitants, and in 1870 of 3,585." Population of Egg Harbor Township is listed as 4,075 in 1880 and 4,255 in 1890, inclusive of Linwood borough (536 in 1890) and Absecon town (507 in 1880 and 501 in 1890).
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"The Atlantic County Park System has instead of the 7.56 mile bike and pedestrian path running from the Shore Mall in Egg Harbor Township to the Atlantic County Vocational Technical School in Hamilton Township also known as the bikeway east." "Egg Harbor Township's Anastasia Cannuscio earns a berth in a world championship ice dancing event", The Press of Atlantic City, February 1, 2011.
So says their stage mom, as the three teens run down the docks to look at the boats in their hometown of Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey." "Egg Harbor Township's Steve Coates in Flyers' corner as their voice on radio, TV", The Press of Atlantic City, June 3, 2010.
"Egg Harbor Township marks 300th birthday with bash at the Shore Mall", The Press of Atlantic City, January 20, 2012.
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Egg Harbor Township resident Vince Polistina said he wants to 'change the course of this state now.'" "Cathy Rush invited friends to her home in Ventnor a couple of years ago to watch an advance copy of the movie The Mighty Macs....Rush, a native of West Atlantic City in Egg Harbor Township, saw the recording of this movie....
"FBI searches Scarfo's Egg Harbor Township home", The Press of Atlantic City, May 10, 2008.
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