Town of the week:
Voorhees Township, NJ

Voorhees covers about 11 square miles of land in Camden County and counted 31,069 residents in the 2020 Census. Route 73 runs through the township, and the PATCO Speedline stops at Ashland station, on Burnt Mill Road. Voorhees Town Center, pictured above, is home to the township's municipal offices and hosts town events such as its Harvest Festival.

Schools, grade by grade

Voorhees Township Public Schools teaches kindergarten through grade 5 in four neighborhood schools, Hamilton, Kresson, Osage and Signal Hill, and also runs a full-day preschool. Voorhees Middle School teaches grades 6 to 8. For grades 9 to 12, Voorhees students attend Eastern Regional High School, which also serves Berlin Borough and Gibbsboro.

Parks and a historic farm

Voorhees Township bought the historic 140-acre Stafford Farm in 2004 with the county and the state. Half of the property is preserved as open space, with the Stafford stagecoach walking trail and a disc golf course. Connolly Park, on Centennial Boulevard, covers 49 acres, with two dog runs, a lighted half-mile walking track, a cricket pitch, a playground and a picnic pavilion.

Named for Governor Foster Voorhees

Voorhees is named for Foster McGowan Voorhees, the New Jersey governor who approved its split from Waterford Township in 1899. Route 561, the Haddonfield-Berlin Road, began as a path to the coast and later became the Long-A-Coming stagecoach road.