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Tabernacle Township, New Jersey

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Tabernacle Township is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 6,776, a decrease of 173 (−2.5%) from the 2010 census count of 6,949, which in turn reflected a decline of 221 (−3.1%) from the 7,170 counted in the 2000 census. The township, and all of Burlington County, is a part of the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley. Tabernacle was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 22, 1901, from portions of Shamong Township, Southampton Township and Woodland Township. The township was named for a tabernacle constructed by missionaries David and John Brainerd. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Tabernacle Township as its 23rd best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Tabernacle Township as its sixth-best place to live in its 2010 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey. In 2009, it was rated the #1 small town by South Jersey Magazine. The region now recognized as Tabernacle was initially inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1778, John Brainerd founded a Christian church known as Tabernacle In The Wilderness. His objective was to convert the local Native Americans to Christianity. In 1803, William Wilkins sold land to 28 individuals for the construction of the Tabernacle Cemetery, situated adjacent to the church. The church also functioned as a schoolhouse. However, due to the community's growth, a one-room school was established on the future site of the Tabernacle Town Hall in 1856. A sawmill was constructed in the Friendship area in the early 1700s. Around 1860, Gilbert Knight built the Knight-Pepper House near the Town Hall. The property later transitioned into the hands of the Scott and Pepper families. After Clara Pepper passed away in 1987, the property was donated to the Tabernacle Historic Society.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernacle_Township,_New_Jersey

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