Hammonton, New Jersey Hammonton, New Jersey Map of Hammonton in Atlantic County Map of Hammonton in Atlantic County Enumeration Bureau map of Hammonton, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Hammonton, New Jersey State New Jersey Hammonton is a town in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known as the "Blueberry Capital of the World." Hammonton was settled in 1812 and was titled for John Hammond Coffin, a son of one of the community's earliest settlers, William Coffin, with the "d" in what was originally "Hammondton" disappearing over time. It was incorporated as a town by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 5, 1866, from portions of Hamilton Township and Mullica Township. It is positioned directly between Philadelphia and the resort town of Atlantic City, along a former route of the Pennsylvania Railroad that is used by NJ Transit's Atlantic City Line.
The town borders Folsom borough, to the southwest, and both Hamilton and Mullica townships to the southeast in Atlantic County; Shamong Township and Washington Township in Burlington County to the northeast; and Waterford Township and Winslow Township in Camden County to the northwest. It is positioned in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, so is largely flat, though the highest point in Atlantic County is positioned along the Pennsylvania Railroad inside the borders of Hammonton.
The town 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. All of the town 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. Hammonton lies in the northern reaches of the humid subtropical climate zone, and, similar to inland southern New Jersey, is characterized by brisk winters, hot summers, and plentiful rain spread evenly throughout the year.
Climate data for Hammonton, New Jersey (1981 2010 normals) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 3.2 2.5 .8 .2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.2 7.9 As of the 2000 Census, 45.9% of town inhabitants were of Italian ancestry, the second-highest percentage of any municipality in the United States (behind Johnston, Rhode Island, at 46.7%), and highest in New Jersey, among all places with more than 1,000 inhabitants identifying their ancestry. News reports have said Hammonton leads the country in Italian-Americans per capita. Hammonton is governed under the Town form of New Jersey municipal government.
Hammonton is positioned in the 2nd Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 8th state legislative district. Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Hammonton had been in the 9th 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).
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.
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Sooy Elementary School (2-5; 899), Hammonton Middle School (6-8; 817) and Hammonton High School (9-12; 1,364). Students from Folsom Borough (grades 9-12) and Waterford Township in Camden County (7-12) attend the Hammonton schools as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Folsom Borough School District and the Waterford Township School District. In the wake of the dissolution of the Lower Camden County Regional School District, the Hammonton board of education voted in 1999 to begin accepting an estimated 800 students from Waterford Township for grades 7-12 starting as of 2002, with the tuition paid by students from Waterford helping to lower overall costs to Hammonton taxpayers. Borough enhance school students are also eligible to attend the Atlantic County Institute of Technology or the Charter-Tech High School for the Performing Arts, positioned in Somers Point. As of 2010, the town had a total of 126.50 miles (203.58 km) of roadways, of which 77.04 miles (123.98 km) were maintained by the municipality, 30.61 miles (49.26 km) by Atlantic County and 14.65 miles (23.58 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 4.20 miles (6.76 km) by the South Jersey Transportation Authority. Route 206 and Route 54 all pass through Hammonton, as do County Route 536, County Route 542, County Route 559 and County Route 561.
The Hammonton station of NJ Transit provides passenger rail service between the Atlantic City Rail Terminal in Atlantic City and 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and intermediate points on the Atlantic City Line. Since the 1980s, the Red, White and Blueberry Festival has jubilated Hammonton's status as the nation's blueberry capital. The Hammonton Wine Festival, a fundraiser for the region Rotary Club, jubilates the area's winemakers. Reagan's speech highlighted Hammonton's status as "Blueberry Capital of the World" and then extolled the virtues of New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen. Every year Hammonton hosts the Red, White and Blueberry festival, Our Lady of Mount Carmel festival and the Hammonton wine festival.
Mount Carmel's Italian Festival dates back to 1875 and is considered the earliest such continuously run festival in the United States. Other celebrations include; Hammonton Fall Beer Festival, Teen Arts Festival, Hammonton Food Truck Festival, Hammonton Green Day Festival, and Crusin Main Street. Aerial view of Hammonton, New Jersey (1926) In November 2014, in a study conducted by Credit - Donkey.com, Hammonton was ranked second-happiest town/city in New Jersey.
On June 7, 2013, the Eagle Theatre in Hammonton became the first theater in New Jersey to sell alcoholic beverages and allow spectators to drink wine amid the show.
The 2002 film, 13th Child, about the hunt for the Jersey Devil, was filmed in Hammonton.
A 2011 episode of Supernatural, "How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters" about the Jersey Devil, is set in Hammonton, though it wasn't filmed there. Hammonton made a cameo appearance in the first two episodes of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, with a scene towards the end of both episodes showing the town sign "Welcome to Hammonton, The Blueberry Capital of the World". See also: Category:People from Hammonton, New Jersey.
Nelson Johnson (born 1948), former Atlantic County Superior Court Judge and author of Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, a chapter of which about Enoch L.
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"The Hammonton Public School System serves kids from Hammonton, Waterford, and Folsom as well as over 140 NJ Department of Education Choice students." Schools, Towns of Hammonton.
"The two school districts that send students to Hammonton are disputing tuition adjustments that would allow Hammonton School District to avoid a tax hike this year but cause large tax hikes in the sending districts.
The school budgets for Hammonton and its sending districts Waterford and Folsom could hang in limbo well past next month's school board elections, and Waterford and Folsom could be left with budget fights and massive cuts, sending precinct superintendents said." "The school board has been mulling the copy since the Waterford Board of Education, in Camden County, decided in September that it wanted to send its 800 junior high and high school students to the Atlantic County school district.
Last year, five of seven suburbs that make up the Lower Camden County Regional School District voted to dissolve it inside three years, leaving each town responsible for educating its students." Frequently Asked Questions, Atlantic County Institute of Technology.
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"In the Atlantic County farming improve of Hammonton, where crops are king and ancestral connections to the territory run deep, they didn't need the state to tell them the blueberry is special.
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"America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts.", text of speech bringed by Ronald Reagan on September 19, 1984, My Hammonton.
Now Hammonton has the highest percentage of Italians in the Garden State.", New Jersey Monthly, January 17, 2012.
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"Hammonton hosting first ever Food Truck festival ", The Press of Atlantic City, June 8, 2015.
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"Hammonton among eight semifinalists for nationwide Main Street Award", The Press of Atlantic City, February 12, 2013.
"BASEBALL / HAMMONTON'S BOYS OF SUMMER / A GLANCE AT HAMMONTON'S 1949 LITTLE LEAGUE JOURNEY", The Press of Atlantic City, August 28, 1999.
"Wine revenue prepared at Hammonton's Eagle Theatre", The Press of Atlantic City, June 5, 2013, updated June 6, 2013.
"'How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters' Something is eating campers in Hammonton, New Jersey could it be the Jersey Devil?" "Hammonton welcomes Boardwalk Empire sign", The Press of Atlantic City, April 29, 2011.
"Hammonton teen cut from 'American Idol'", The Press of Atlantic City, February 13, 2013.
"Film shoot transports Hammonton back to the 1980s", The Press of Atlantic City ,May 18, 2015.
"1967 - Anthony Durante is born in Hammonton, New Jersey." "Making a new start; Hammonton's Ace Enders has a new disc, a new band and is looking to write a new chapter in his music career", The Press of Atlantic City, February 11, 2009.
"Meet Hammonton's own Lindsey Giannini, Miss New Jersey 2015", NJ.com, July 24, 2015.
"A native of Hammonton, Johnson got his first taste of politics when he was propel as a Democrat to Atlantic County's Board of Chosen Freeholders in 1975, where he served until 1980.
"Atlantic City's Godfather: A Q&A with Judge Nelson Johnson, whose book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City was made into an HBO miniseries", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010.
"He still commutes from non-urban Hammonton where he interval up to his Atlantic City courtroom.
"Before Margaret Mead reached her teens, she accompanied her mother on field trips to Hammonton, New Jersey, where Emily Mead was engaged in sociological research among Italian immigrants." George Washington Nicholson, Art & Architecture of New Jersey.
"Hammonton mob informant misses life left behind", copy of article from The Press of Atlantic City, June 14, 2004.
"HAMMONTON'S SISCONE PURSUING SAFETY DRIVE", The Press of Atlantic City, July 11, 1989.
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"Alma Whiffen Barksdale (1916-1981) was born in Hammonton, New Jersey, 25 October 1916." "Richard Reines, who owns Drive-Thru Records, which is based in the San Fernando Valley in California, believes in the New Jersey scene; Drive-Thru's roster includes Hidden in Plain View from Stanhope and the Early November from Hammonton." "Residents stepped out Saturday, formalizing their 'sister city' relationship between San Gregorio da Sassola, Italy, and Hammonton, which brands itself as the most Italian town in the United States." Hammonton Public Schools's 2015 16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education The Hammonton Gazette - Hammonton's small-town newspaper.
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