Editing Mount Holly, New Jersey (section)

===20th century===
A trolley station was built in 1904 for passengers making connections to [[Burlington, New Jersey|Burlington City]] and [[Moorestown, New Jersey|Moorestown]]. New municipal buildings were constructed during the 20th century, including the Town Hall on Washington Street (1930) and the U.S. Post Office (1935) located across the street (1935), both federally funded and constructed as [[Works Progress Administration]] projects under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] during the [[Great Depression]].

In the late 1950s, Mount Holly began to have economic difficulties due to industrial restructuring and the loss of working-class jobs. In the post-[[World War II]] period, numerous [[blue collar]], [[family wage]] jobs disappeared as the community's traditional employers, the mills and dye factories, were shut down. At first, these job losses were offset in part by gains at the nearby military bases, [[Fort Dix]] and [[McGuire Air Force Base]], especially during the [[Vietnam War]]. In 1970, the residential vacancy rate in Mount Holly was 4.3%.

By 1980, however, the vacancy rate had climbed to 8.7% as a result of the nearby military installations' downsizing after the end of the Vietnam War. During this same period, 1970–1980, shopping malls proliferated in the suburban Philadelphia area, and retail business in Mount Holly suffered.<ref>[http://www.makeitmountholly.com/ecodev/?grp=uez&sec=hist "History of the Mount Holly UEZ"], Make It Mount Holly. Accessed October 22, 2007.</ref>