Raum, John O. The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1, p. 262, J. E. Potter and company, 1877. Accessed September 28, 2013. "Upper township was incorporated in 1798, and contained in 1850 1,341 inhabitants; in 1860, 1,552; and in 1870, 1,433." Population for 1870 of 1,433 conflicts with other sources.
Hartzell, Scott Taylor. ed. St. Petersburg: An Oral History, p. 68. Arcadia Publishing, 2002. ISBN9780738514253. Accessed September 12, 2016. "George Sheppard Gandy was born in Tuckahoe, New Jersey, in 1851, the son of a shipmaster who owned numerous clipper sailing vessels."
Board of County Commissioners, Cape May County, New Jersey. Accessed April 28, 2022. "Cape May County Government is governed by a Board of County Commissioners. These individuals are elected at large by the citizens of Cape May County and hold spaced 3-year terms." Note that as of date accessed, Desiderio is listed with an incorrect term-end year of 2020.
Frequently Asked Questions, Cape May County Technical High School. Accessed February 28, 2023. "Who can attend Cape May County Technical High School? All residents of Cape May County are eligible to attend Cape May County Technical High School. Our Adult and Continuing Education programs allow anyone to attend no matter where they may live. We have arrangements with Atlantic and Cumberland Counties for special circumstances that allow students to attend our Technical High School as well."
Spoto, MaryAnn. "Surfers fighting to save dwindling free beaches", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 20, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2015. "New Jersey has five free guarded ocean beaches – Atlantic City, Wildwood, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and the Strathmere section of Upper Township."
Barlow, Bil. "Ocean City police sergeant to run for election to Township Committee", Ocean City Sentinel, March 17, 2021. Accessed July 26, 2022. "Mark Pancoast is running for Upper Township Committee this year, according to township Republican leader Larry Trulli. The sergeant with the Ocean City Police Department is the Republican organization’s pick to round out the three-person ticket. Pancoast has the party’s backing for the nomination for a one-year term open this year, which was formerly filled by Hobie Young. After Young’s high-profile resignation last year, committee appointed Kim Hayes to fill the seat until the next election."
Staff. "12 Months Later / Corbin City, Upper Township await word on merger study", The Press of Atlantic City, July 20, 2009. Accessed October 17, 2012. "In July 2008, Mayor Carol Foster went to Trenton to apply for a grant to study the possibility of eliminating her municipality.Corbin City and Upper Township officials had proposed a merger plan four months earlier, as state legislators slashed municipal aid and offered incentives for towns to conduct shared-services studies.... Corbin City, which is part of Atlantic County, already shares its library, schools, fire company, emergency medical services and municipal court with Upper Township, which is in Cape May County."
McKenna, Brian. Dummy Stephenson, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed August 12, 2016. "Reuben Crandol Stephenson was born on September 22, 1869, in Upper Township, a large town in Cape May County, New Jersey. During the first half of the nineteenth century the towns of Dennis and Ocean, now known as Ocean City, were separated from Upper because it was so vast. Stephenson is often cited as hailing from Petersburg, but that is merely a post office designation, not typically used as a biographical reference in baseball encyclopedias."
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History, Seaville Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company. Accessed September 28, 2012.
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Biography of Bob Menendez, United States Senate, January 26, 2015. "Menendez, who started his political career in Union City, moved in September from Paramus to one of Harrison's new apartment buildings near the town's PATH station.."
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"Upper Township school board members frustrated OCHS not accepting School Choice students", The Gazette of Upper Township, March 18, 2015. Accessed January 10, 2017. "Upper Township pays around $10 million in tuition for more than 600 students to attend Ocean City High School. Upper Township students make up around 60 percent of the student body, Palmieri said."
Houdart, Michael. "Focus on History: Garet Garrett, the forgotten genius of Upper Township", The Gazette of Upper Township, December 17, 2015. Accessed September 12, 2016. "When Garrett came to Upper Township in 1924, he chose to live on the banks of the Tuckahoe River in Marshallville. He lived in a three-story brick colonial house, part of the Stille Homestead that was supposedly built by slaves."
Upper Township Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Upper Township School District. Accessed January 4, 2023. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight in the Upper Township School District. Composition: The Upper Township School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Upper Township."
