Friday, March 21, 2008

SOME INSIGHTS INTO MULLICA TWP.

Mullica Township is a township (56.58 square miles) in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 5,912. Today's population is a bit over 6,000 residents. About 26% of Mullica is owned by the State and nonprofits and as such produces no property tax revenue for the Township. That is 9,238 acres which pay no property taxes. Mullica receives from the State in Lieu of property taxes in 2007, $62.540.

Mullica Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 13, 1838, from the western section of Galloway Township. Egg Harbor City was created from portions of the township on June 14, 1858, while the Town of Hammonton was created and split off on March 5, 1866.

The township and its famous river were officially named after Eric PÄlsson Mullica, an early Finnish settler born in 1636 who founded a homestead on the river after moving there from the vicinity of Philadelphia, and who later moved to Mullica Hill in Gloucester County.

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