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New Jersey has 566 municipalities. Some of those date back to the
earliest days of the colony, and have continued as identifiable
communities today. Notwithstanding shifting city and county
boundaries, consolidation and "secession," a few towns claim
Colonial roots, and still maintain some buildings that predate the
Revolution. This section of the site contains selected images from
some of these towns. Not all images are of Colonial
structures. Rather, this is an attempt to introduce the New Jersey
colonial town across the span of their three centuries of existence.
Elsewhere, the site features the cities of
New Jersey, some of which date back as well to the seventeenth
century. I use the nomenclature towns to distinguish them from more
conventional concepts of the city, even though they may legally, in some
case, be cities, or have been considered a city hundreds of years
ago. To the left is a scene from downtown Mount Holly, in Burlington
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