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In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Army under command of George Washington constructed two forts on the Delaware River to block the approach to Philadelphia: Fort Mifflin on the Pennsylvania side and Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side in what is now National Park. The fort was named in honor of Brigadier General Hugh Mercer who had died earlier that year at the Battle of Princeton. A park, monument, and museum commemorate the fort on its original site.

On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side (including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene. After the loss of Fort Mifflin, Fort Mercer was abandoned without a fight when Lord Charles Cornwallis landed 2,000 British troops nearby on November 18.

Beginning in 1895, the area was commercially developed as National Park on the Delaware as a religious resort / retreat for members of the Methodist Episcopal Church by James E. Lake, a reverend who also formed Ocean City, New Jersey.

National Park was formed as a borough on April 15, 1902, from portions of West Deptford Township.

 

 

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Borough of National Park
7 South Grove Ave
National Park, NJ 08063
856-845-3891

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Construction Official 856-845-3891

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National Park School - Elementary Grades PreK - 6
516 Lakehurst Ave
National Park, NJ 08063
856-845-6876

Gateway Regional High School - Grades 7 - 12
775 Tanyard Drive
Woodbury Heights, NJ 08096
856-848-8200

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