History of Willingboro Township

Willingboro Township is a township located in Burlington County, New Jersey. As of the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 33,008.

Willingboro was one of the original nine divisions in the 1688 organization of Burlington County, West Jersey. The original name was Wellingborrow but there were other spellings used at different times. In the 1950s and 1960s Willingboro was the location for a massive residential development by Abraham Levitt and Sons. In 1959 the township name was officially changed to Levittown. Willingboro is less than 12 miles from Levittown, Pennsylvania and this occasionally caused confusion. After a referendum was held on the issue, the name was changed back to Willingboro in 1963. Sociologist Herbert Gans used Willingboro as the subject if his 1967 book The Levittowners.

Track and field legend Carl Lewis, although born in Alabama, grew up in Willingboro.

Geography:

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 20.8 km² (8.0 mi²). 19.9 km² (7.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 4.11% water.

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