Editing Gloucester County, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[Woodbury, New Jersey|Woodbury]], the county seat, was founded in 1683 and is the county's oldest municipality.<ref>[http://www.woodbury.nj.us/history.shtml History of Woodbury] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006000616/http://woodbury.nj.us/history.shtml |date=October 6, 2006 }}, accessed January 26, 2007.</ref> [[National Park, New Jersey|National Park]] in Gloucester County was the site of the [[American Revolutionary War]]'s [[Battle of Red Bank]], where [[Fort Mercer]] once stood. It is now the site of [[Red Bank Battlefield|Red Bank Battlefield Park]] in National Park. The remains of the [[Royal Navy]]'s {{HMS|Augusta|1763|6}} were laid in Red Bank Battlefield Park until they were later moved to [[Gloucester City, New Jersey|Gloucester City]].

During the [[Colonial history of the United States|colonial era]], Gloucester County's main industry sector was agriculture. Woodbury was the site of the county courthouse, the county jail, a [[Quakers|Quaker]] meeting house that is still in existence, and an inn located on the current location of Woodbury Crossings. Due in part to the county's many [[stream|creeks]] that lead to the [[Delaware River]] and [[Atlantic Ocean]], smuggling was once common in the county.

===Etymology===
The county is named after the city of [[Gloucester]] and county of [[Gloucestershire]] in England.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/place/Gloucester-county-New-Jersey "Gloucester County"] at Britannica, retrieved December 22, 2022</ref>