Editing Buena, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[Charles K. Landis]] was a land developer who was the driving force behind the creation of [[Hammonton, New Jersey|Hammonton]] and [[Vineland, New Jersey|Vineland]]. Landis also had a hand in establishing other small communities, including Landisville, in Buena Borough. He planned to make it county seat of a new county called Landis County, which would incorporate land from the surrounding counties. However, the locals were against this, and began calling him "King Landis".<ref>[http://www.history.vineland.org/friends/characters/landis.html Friends of Historic Vineland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070622112505/http://history.vineland.org/friends/characters/landis.html |date=2007-06-22 }}. Frank De Maio, M.D. Accessed August 29, 2007.</ref>

Buena was incorporated as a borough by an act of the [[New Jersey Legislature]] on September 1, 1948, from portions of [[Buena Vista Township, New Jersey|Buena Vista Township]]. The borough was reincorporated on May 18, 1949.<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. [https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 67. Accessed October 25, 2012.</ref> The borough derives its name from [[Buena Vista Township, New Jersey|Buena Vista Township]], which in turn was named for the 1847 [[Battle of Buena Vista]] during the [[Mexican–American War]].<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=9 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 28, 2015.</ref>

In 1979, local resident Madeline Barrale authored a 115-page book illustrating the borough's history. Buena Borough celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1999 with the 1st Annual "Buena Day" at Bruno Melini Park. In 2002, the [[St. Padre Pio Shrine]] was erected by Italian-American farmers in the Landisville section of Buena and has attracted what was described by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as a "steady stream of Catholics" who come to pray at the site.<ref>Coyne, Kevin. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/17njcol.html "At a Shrine, Inspiration and Memories"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 16, 2006. Accessed July 21, 2011. "Since it opened four years ago, the St. Padre Pio Shrine has drawn a steady stream of Catholics who stop to pray before a six-foot bronze statue of a mystical, wildly popular Capuchin friar who was treated skeptically at first by the church, then ultimately made a saint."</ref>