Centre Township, New Jersey

USCensusPop
1900=2192
1910=3200
1920=4004
footnote=source: [cite web
url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/41084506no553.zip
format=ZIP
title=Fourteenth Census of The United States: 1920; Population: New Jersey; Number of inhabitants, by counties and minor civil divisions
publisher=U.S. Census Bureau
accessdate=2007-03-21
author=Wm. C. Hunt, Chief Statistician for Population]

Centre Township was a township that existed in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, from 1855 through 1926.

Centre Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1855, from portions of the now-defunct Union Township."The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 104.]

Over the years, portions of Centre Township were taken to create several new municipalities:
*Haddon Heights on March 2, 1904 (also portions of Haddon Township)
*Magnolia on April 14, 1915 (also portions of Clementon)
*Barrington on March 27, 1917
*Tavistock on February 16, 1921
*Brooklawn on March 11, 1924
*Bellmawr on March 23, 1926
*Mount Ephraim on March 23, 1926
*Runnemede on March 23, 1926
*Lawnside on March 24, 1926 (also portions of Barrington)

With the creation of Lawnside, Centre Township was officially dissolved.

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