The same year the "Evesham" Post Office and the "Evesham" Baptist Church both had their names changed to "Marlton" Post Office and the "Marlton" Baptist Church. The Marlton area was recognized as a village in 1758. Marl continued to be mined locally until 1930, when the pits were finally closed. Its discovery helped local commerce and fueled the first "building boom", which took place in the 1830s and 1840s. The name Marlton came about in the early 19th century and stems from the word " marl", a naturally occurring mixture of green clay with remnants of shells that was used as a fertilizer, like manure. Marlton is a name commonly associated and interchangeable with the name Evesham, derived from the census designated place within Evesham. In 1802, a tract was cut off for Washington Township in 1847, the Township was then divided in half, with the eastern half becoming Medford Township and in 1872, Evesham was divided again, for the last time, with the northern part becoming Mount Laurel Township. Evesham Township was eventually incorporated in 1692 as one of the thirteen Townships in Burlington County. The South Branch of the Rancocas on the East Side and Cropwell Creek on the West Side bound this area. The Township was substantially larger than it is today, originally including what are now Mount Laurel, Medford, Lumberton, Hainesport, Shamong, and Washington Townships. Portions of the township were taken to form Washington Township (November 19, 1802), Medford Township (March 1, 1847) and Mount Laurel Township (March 7, 1872). It was incorporated by the Township Act of 1798 of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, as one of New Jersey's original group of 104 townships. Įvesham Township was formed on November 6, 1688, as Eversham (with an "R" in the middle of the name that was lost in subsequent years) in the Province of West Jersey before the county was formed. The township was named either for the town of the same name in England or for prominent English settler Thomas Eves. The area now known as Evesham Township was originally settled by Quakers in 1672. 4.2 Federal, state and county representation.Colloquially, the area is referred to as Marlton, the name of a community within the township. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 45,538, reflecting an increase of 3,263 (+7.7%) from the 42,275 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 6,966 (+19.7%) from the 35,309 counted in the 1990 Census. Randy Brown ( R, term ends December 31, 2018) Įvesham Township is a township in Burlington County in the US state of New Jersey, United States.
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