Pennsauken, New Jersey Relocation Guide

Pennsauken Township is a Township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 35,737. Pennsauken was incorporated in 1892 and is home to a Pepsi plant, Disc Makers, and J & J Snack Foods Corporation. The exact origin of the name "Pennsauken" is unclear but it is probably from the tongue of the Lenni Lenape people (a Native American group which once occupied the area), an Algonquian language, and it is usually said to mean "tobacco pouch."

The township includes Petty's Island, a 450 acre island in the Delaware River although most of the island actually sits across a narrow strait from neighboring Camden. Once an oil storage and distribution facility, the island is presently the site of a container cargo shipping operation and nesting bald eagles. Petty's Island is currently the focal point of the township's waterfront redevelopment plan.

Pennsauken borders Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The two municipalities are connected across the Delaware River by the Betsy Ross Bridge which is owned and operated by the Delaware River Port Authority. In New Jersey, Pennsauken borders Camden, Collingswood, Merchantville, Cherry Hill, Palmyra, and Maple Shade.

The Pennsauken Public Schools serve students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade. The district consists of Baldwin Early Childhood Learning Center for PreK, seven elementary schools (K-4, except as noted) ? Carson Elementary School, Central Elementary School, Delair Elementary School, Franklin Elementary School, George B. Fine Elementary School, Longfellow Elementary School, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School ? Pennsauken Intermediate School (5&6), Howard M. Phifer Middle School (7&8) and for grades 9-12.

Students from Merchantville attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Bishop Eustace Preparatory School is a coeducational private high school for students in grades 9-12, founded in 1954 by the priests and brothers of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (The Pallottines).

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