Research tools
South Jersey research resources
Regional reference list
Four starting points collected for newspaper, digital-history, and postcard research concerning Burlington County and South Jersey.
What each resource offers
- New Jersey State Library Burlington County newspapers: a guide to digitized newspaper holdings, including the New Jersey Mirror.
- Stockton University South Jersey Culture & History Center: a directory of digital archives, historic newspapers, and research projects.
- Burlington County postcard archive: a visual-history collection useful for buildings, streetscapes, settlements, and changing place names.
- Tabernacle Historical Society: local histories of taverns, schools, farms and residents, with reproduced deeds, maps, advertisements and newspaper clippings. Its Hampton Gate Tavern study preserves conflicting location and ownership evidence. Distinguish the linked records from the author’s interpretations.
The original source collection contained links only, not notes evaluating coverage or completeness. Holdings and URLs may change, so researchers should verify the catalog descriptions at the destination sites.
Sources and further reading
- https://libguides.njstatelib.org/digitized-newspapers/burlington
- https://blogs.stockton.edu/sjchc/links/digital-archives-newspapers-and-research-projects/
- http://postcard.burlco.org/
- Tabernacle Historical Society: Hampton Gate Tavern and the wider historical archive
Links identify research leads. Their presence does not mean this site adopts every claim on the linked page.