The downtown portion of the township is known as Westmont, a name probably derived from a noted harness racing horse. Haddon Township has two exclaves, West Collingswood Heights and West Collingswood Extension. GeographyĪccording to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 2.791 square miles (7.231 km 2), including 2.687 square miles (6.960 km 2) of land and 0.104 square miles (0.271 km 2) of water (3.74%). The area where Saddler settled became a predominantly black community known as Saddlertown, a stop on the Underground Railroad. Saddler worked for Cy Evans, a local Quaker farmer, from whom he bought five acres to farm. In the late 1830s, a runaway slave, who had taken the surname Saddler to avoid detection by his former master, came to New Jersey from a Maryland plantation with his wife and two daughters. Its first European settlers were Irish who settled in the area of Newton Creek in 1681. Contemporary Newton Township included land that later became part of Audubon, Audubon Park, Camden, Collingswood, Gloucester City, Haddon Heights, Haddonfield, Oaklyn, and Woodlynne. In 1701, Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh, the daughter of John Haddon, arrived in the American colonies to oversee his large landholdings, which included areas that are now Collingswood, Haddon Township, and Haddonfield. Haddon Township allows the sale of alcohol, and has several bars and restaurants which serve alcoholic beverages, unlike the neighboring boroughs of Collingswood, Haddonfield and Haddon Heights which prohibit the sale of alcohol. The township was named for early settler Elizabeth Haddon. The following communities were subsequently created from the Haddon Township: Haddonfield (April 6, 1875), Collingswood (May 22, 1888), Woodlynne (March 19, 1901), Haddon Heights (March 2, 1904), Audubon (March 13, 1905) and Oaklyn (also March 13, 1905). Under the terms of an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 23, 1865, Haddon Township was incorporated from portions of Newton Township. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 14,707, reflecting an increase of 56 (+0.4%) from the 14,651 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 186 (-1.3%) from the 14,837 counted in the 1990 Census. Haddon Township is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.

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