Borough Hall is located at 1211 Delaware Street, Paulsboro, NJ 08066.
Phone: 856-423-1500.
In 2024, more Paulsboro owners sold their homes with Keller Williams Real Estate than any other real estate estate brand.
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The Samuel P. Paul House (circa 1810) is the oldest home in Paulsboro and served as the original homestead of the family for which the Borough is named. At the time of this writing it was being considered for an adaptive reuse project to house the library which was across the street.
Paulsboro’s [†] natural resources have long shaped the lives of its inhabitants. Its location at the confluence of the Delaware River and Mantua Creek gave rise to the settlement and early development of Paulsboro. Because of this strategic location, Paulsboro played a major role during the Revolutionary War when Fort Billingsport, now adjacent to a public park, defended Philadelphia from the British forces. River-based transportation and later railroads enabled industrial development within Paulsboro. The oil industry has been present in and surrounding Paulsboro since at least 1916. Although still a significant presence, this industry declined in Paulsboro during the 1970s and 1980s, leading to population losses as well. A new $250 million port facility located on a former industrial site 2009.
&dager; Environmental Resource Inventory for Paulsboro, NJ, 2011, www.dvrpc.org, accessed January, 2025.
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