Welcome to Atlantic County New Jersey Genealogy and History
Finding Ancestors ....wherever their trails led
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County Townships Buena Vista Township Egg Harbor Township Galloway Township Hamilton Township Weymouth Township County Seat: Mays Landing Surrounding Counties: Burlington County, NJ - north Ocean County, NJ - northeast Cape May County, NJ - south Cumberland County, NJ - southwest Camden County, NJ - northwest Gloucester County, NJ - northwest Our New Jersey State Site Official County Website: http://www.aclink.org/	All of what is known today as Atlantic County was once called Egg Harbor Township, the eastern half of the original County of Gloucester. Named as an official district as early as 1693, when the area was known as the province of West Jersey, it was bounded on the north by the Little Egg Harbor River (now known as the Mullica River), and on the south by the Great Egg Harbor River and its southern branch the Tuckahoe River. Its eastern boundary was the Atlantic Ocean, but the western boundary in the South Jersey interior was not fixed until 1761 Municipalities within Atlantic County Absecon (city) Atlantic City (city) Brigantine (city) Collings Lakes Buena (borough) Corbin City (city) Egg Harbor City (city) Estell Manor (city) Folsom (borough) Pomona Mays Landing Hammonton (town) Linwood (city) Longport (borough) Margate City (city) Mullica Township Elwood-Magnolia Northfield (city) Pleasantville (city) Port Republic (city) Somers Point (city) Ventnor City (city)
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