Roofing, Siding & Windows in Swedesboro, NJ
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From Raccoon to Swedesboro.
Renamed 1765.

The settlement began as Raccoon — a name drawn from the Lenape word "narraticon" — and spread south from Raccoon Creek toward the present center of town at Borough Hall on King's Highway under a Lease System that was unique to New Jersey. The community's name was changed to Swedesboro in 1765. Trinity "Old Swedes" Church, founded in 1703, is the oldest church in Gloucester County, the first Swedish church in the state and the third in the nation; the Van Leer/Mortenson Log Cabin, one of the country's oldest existing log cabins, was moved from Grand Sprute Plantation along Raccoon Creek to New Sweden Park at the edge of the Trinity Church cemetery.

That history is codified, not just remembered. Chapter 183, Historic Preservation, of the Borough Code establishes a Historic Preservation Advisory Commission that maintains a designated list of landmarks and historic sites — including the Richardson Avenue School, the John C. Rulon House at 1428 Kings Highway, Trinity Church, and the Van Leer Cabin at 1129 Kings Highway — and a "Historic District and Landmarks" map. Work on a structure within the district or on a designated site needs a certificate of appropriateness, and Borough officials reviewing any permit must check whether that certificate applies.

A Coded Historic District and a Two-Office Permit Path.

Three things decide how an exterior job runs here:

• Certificate of appropriateness under Chapter 183: work on a structure inside the designated historic district or on a landmark site — the Rulon House, Richardson Avenue School, Trinity Church, the Van Leer Cabin and others on the Commission's map — requires a certificate of appropriateness, and the Borough's permit reviewers are obligated to flag applications that need one. We resolve your address against that map at the start, not after the order.
• A shared-services permit path: Swedesboro's Construction Code Office runs under a Shared Services Agreement with the Township of Greenwich (Gibbstown); applications are handled at the Municipal Building at 1500 Kings Highway, Swedesboro keeps rental and resale Certificate of Occupancy work, and Greenwich collects permits Mondays and Thursdays. We file into that two-office track so the certificate and the construction permit do not stall each other.
• Raccoon Creek edge and freeze-thaw winters: the borough packs into 0.73 square miles, and the sliver of water area traces the Raccoon Creek corridor the settlement originally grew south from. A parcel against that corridor drains and weathers differently from one up on the King's Highway spine once humid-continental freeze-thaw is added in, so the corridor side of your address is established before any edge detail is committed.

ZIP 08085 — and the Kingsway Neighbors.

All 0.73 square miles of Swedesboro fall under the one ZIP, 08085, and a single permit door — the Construction Code Office at the Swedesboro Municipal Building, 1500 Kings Highway, run under the borough's shared-services arrangement with Greenwich Township. From that office outward we cover the borough and the municipalities it shares a Kingsway school region and border with:

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