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Woodbury

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a city and the county-seat of Gloucester (disambiguation)|Gloucester county, New Jersey, U.S.A., in the western part of the state, 9 m. S. of Philadelphia. Pop. (5900) 4087, including 246 foreign-born and 517 negroes; (1910) 4642. It is served by the West Jersey && Seashore Railroad. Among its public institutions is the Deptford Institute Free Library. There are various manufactures. Woodbury is said to have been settled about 1684; it became the county-seat in 1787. It was chartered as a borough in 1854 and as a city in 1870.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Woodbury'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​w/woodbury.html. 1910.
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