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Burlington County Courthouse (New Jersey)

1796 establishments in New JerseyBuildings and structures in Burlington County, New JerseyCounty courthouses in New JerseyCourthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New JerseyFederal architecture in New Jersey
Government buildings completed in 1796Historic district contributing properties in New JerseyMount Holly, New JerseyNational Register of Historic Places in Burlington County, New JerseyNew Jersey Register of Historic PlacesUse mdy dates from August 2023
Historic American Buildings Survey Nathaniel R. Ewan, Photographer March 15, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION Burlington County Courthouse, High Street, Mount Holly, Burlington County, HABS NJ,3 MOUHO,1 1
Historic American Buildings Survey Nathaniel R. Ewan, Photographer March 15, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION Burlington County Courthouse, High Street, Mount Holly, Burlington County, HABS NJ,3 MOUHO,1 1

The Burlington County Courthouse is located in Mount Holly, the county seat of Burlington County, New Jersey, U.S., which itself is coterminous with the 3rd vicinage. The historic courthouse continues to handle judicial proceedings.The building was constructed in 1796 under the direction of Michael Rush. Its architect, Samuel Lewis, designed the building as a virtual identical twin of Congress Hall and Old City Hall, the buildings flanking Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The courthouse bell, removed and installed from an earlier courthouse, rang for independence in 1776.It is a contributing property to the Mount Holly Historic District, listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places (#842) and National Register of Historic Places (#73001084) in 1973. and has been documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS NJ-27).

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Historic American Buildings Survey Nathaniel R. Ewan, Photographer March 15, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION Burlington County Courthouse, High Street, Mount Holly, Burlington County, HABS NJ,3 MOUHO,1 1
Historic American Buildings Survey Nathaniel R. Ewan, Photographer March 15, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION Burlington County Courthouse, High Street, Mount Holly, Burlington County, HABS NJ,3 MOUHO,1 1
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Mount Holly, New Jersey
Mount Holly, New Jersey

Mount Holly is a township that is the county seat of Burlington County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is an eastern suburb of Philadelphia, the nation's sixth largest city as of 2020. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 9,981, an increase of 445 (+4.7%) from the 2010 census count of 9,536, which in turn reflected a decline of 1,192 (-11.1%) from the 10,728 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.What is now Mount Holly was originally formed as Northampton on November 6, 1688. Northampton was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships created by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798. Portions of the township were taken to form Little Egg Harbor Township (February 13, 1740, now part of Ocean County), Washington Township (November 19, 1802), Pemberton borough (December 15, 1826), Coaxen Township (March 10, 1845, now known as Southampton Township), Pemberton Township (March 10, 1846), Westampton Township (March 6, 1850) and Lumberton Township (March 14, 1860). There had been a Mount Holly post office since before the 1870 U.S. Census. The township was renamed Mount Holly as of November 6, 1931, based on the results of a referendum held three days earlier. The township was named for hills covered with holly trees. Some areas of today's Mount Holly were known as Bridgetown.Mount Holly gives its name to the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office for the Philadelphia metropolitan area, though the office is actually located in adjacent Westampton.