Cherry Hill: A Brief History

Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is known today for its shopping centers and residential neighborhoods. This tightknit community, founded in the 1600s by English followers of William Penn, began as a collection of hardworking farm families and early American Patriots. The town played an important role in the American Revolution and bravely fought to help southern slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. Townspeople persevered through the turbulent and trying times of the early twentieth ...