[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 6678-6679]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      IN HONOR OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOROUGH OF MAGNOLIA

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                          HON. DONALD NORCROSS

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 13, 2015

  Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the One-hundredth 
Anniversary of the founding of the Borough of Magnolia in Camden 
County, New Jersey.
  On April 14, 1915, the citizens of the future Borough of Magnolia 
were formally recognized by the New Jersey Legislature as an 
independent borough out of Clementon Township. However, history for 
this small town did not begin in 1915. Settled in 1685, the area we 
know today as Magnolia, New Jersey has a deep history of rich 
involvement in the South Jersey community as one of the first settled 
communities of colonial New Jersey.
  The land that makes up Magnolia was once inhabited by the Native 
American Tribe of

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Lenni-Lenape who lived peacefully alongside Quaker farmers. William 
Penn, the future founder of Pennsylvania, worked diligently with this 
dedicated group of Quakers to settle in the southern section of 
colonial New Jersey. These settlers practiced a modest way of living 
based on agriculture and timber production. Over the next three hundred 
years, the community in the Magnolia area thrived, and in the past 
century, the population of Magnolia has quadrupled to over 4,000 today.
  Mr. Speaker, the Borough of Magnolia is small in size, but it is 
enormous in heart and community, a feeling that is best encapsulated 
through its motto: ``One Square Mile of Friendliness.'' This week, as 
the people of Magnolia celebrate their Centennial celebrations, I 
congratulate the citizens, Mayor BettyAnn Cowling-Carson, and council 
of Magnolia on their past one hundred years of experiences and 
accomplishments and wish them another hundred years of richness and 
good fortune.

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