Editing Stratford, New Jersey (section)

==History==
The earliest colonial settlers concentrated around the White Horse Tavern in the 1740s, around which the small village of White Horse emerged.<ref name="Cathrall">{{cite book |title=The History of Stratford, New Jersey |vauthors=((Cathrall, J.)) |date=2007 |publisher=(self-published)}}</ref> The only remaining building of this early village is the [[Stratford Quaker Store]].

In the 1880s, the Rural Land Improvement Company began developing the area known as "Old Stratford" and renamed the village after [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], England.<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=30 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed October 10, 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.stratfordnj.org/borough-history.html Index-analysis of the Statutes of New Jersey], Borough of Stratford. Accessed October 10, 2015. "In 1888 or 1889, Charles S. King saw the possibility of creating a pleasant and ideal He, along with Zimmerman, Twitchell, Smith and Rogers, formed the Rural Land Improvement Company. The development was roughly triangular in shape. The name they chose for this new community was Stratford--after Stratford-on-Avon in England."</ref>

The Borough of Stratford was officially formed on February 13, 1925, from portions of [[Clementon Township, New Jersey|Clementon Township]], one of seven municipalities carved from the township.<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. [https://nj.gov/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. 108. Accessed May 30,2024.</ref>

In the 1960s, Hunt's farm was sold to developers and the Laurel Mill Farms housing development was formed adjacent to the [[Big Timber Creek|North Branch of Big Timber Creek]].<ref name="Cathrall" />