Editing Clementon, New Jersey (section)

==History==
Around 1800, Jonathon Haines built a glass factory in what is now Clementon, situated on a large hill across the street from the modern day Clementon Park. Large amounts of dirt, gravel and marl from the large hill the glass works were situated on were removed for use at a planned new post office in 1961. Sometime around 1811, Samuel Clement of [[Haddonfield, New Jersey|Haddonfield]] purchased the glass works and named them the Gloucester Glass works, and named the small settlement around the plant as Clementon village.<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=10 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 28, 2015. Source shows name as "Samuel Clements".</ref> Haines remained as a superintendent and at some point repurchased the works from Clement.

The Borough of Clementon was created on February 13, 1925, from [[Clementon Township, New Jersey|Clementon Township]], one of nine municipalities created from the now-defunct township, based on the results of a referendum held on March 17, 1925.<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. 104. Accessed October 4, 2012.</ref><ref>Burrows, Danielle L. [https://books.google.com/books?id=a7wxC4pIYlQC&pg=PA5 ''Clementon''], p. 5. [[Arcadia Publishing]]. Accessed January 15, 2020. "On February 13, 1925, 'an Act to incorporate the Borough of Clementon in the County of Camden, and to fix the boundaries thereof,' was passed by the legislature, establishing Clementon as a borough comprised of just less than two square miles."</ref>