This question was posed to me recently: How could Little Egg Harbor and Tuckerton be in the same county as Stafford Township but in different Jerseys? The story of how the township called Little Egg Harbor moved, not physically but politically, is a story of power and politics worthy of an episode of “Boardwalk Empire.”
In 1883 in Major E. M. Woodward’s massive history of Burlington County, it states of Little Egg Harbor, “This township is one of the original subdivisions of Burlington County,…
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