Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 12.13 square miles (31.41 km 2), including 10.48 square miles (27.14 km 2) of land and 1.65 square miles (4.27 km 2) of water (13.59%). Most of the vendors moved to the Grand Market Place in Willingboro Township. In its place in 2018 a new high-end luxury apartment complex will be built-Haddon Point. It featured the comedy Wives Beware, released in the theaters as Two White Arms.įor 50 years, the township was the home to the Pennsauken Mart, a large multi-vendor indoor market, which was closed in January 2006 to make way for a sports arena/conference complex, however that did not materialize. Pennsauken was home to America's first drive-in movie theater, created in 1933 with the opening of the Camden Drive-In in Pennsauken.

Alternatively, the 'Penn' in the township's name refers to William Penn, while 'sauk' is a water inlet or outlet. The exact origin of the name Pennsauken is unclear, but it probably derives from the language of the Lenni Lenape Native Americans, who once occupied the area from ' Pindasenauken', the Lenape language term for tobacco pouch.

Pennsauken Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 18, 1892, from portions of the now-defunct Stockton Township. The township is part of the South Jersey region of the state. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 37,074, an increase of 1,189 (+3.3%) from the 2010 census count of 35,885, which in turn increased by 148 (+0.4%) from the 35,737 counted in the 2000 census. state of New Jersey, and a suburb of Philadelphia. Pennsauken Township is a township in Camden County, in the U.S.

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