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|subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Gloucester |government_footnotes = 〔 |government_type = Borough |governing_body = Borough Council |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Mark Cooper (term ends December 31, 2015)〔(2015 New Jersey Mayors Directory ), New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, as of October 20, 2015. Accessed November 13, 2015.〕 |leader_title1 = Administrator / Clerk |leader_name1 = Josh Pitts〔(Municipal Clerk and Administrator ), Borough of National Park. Accessed November 7, 2012.〕 |established_title = Incorporated |established_date = April 15, 1902 |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = 〔(2010 Census Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 21, 2015.〕 |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 3.762 |area_land_km2 = 2.601 |area_water_km2 = 1.161 |area_total_sq_mi = 1.452 |area_land_sq_mi = 1.004 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.448 |area_water_percent = 30.86 |area_rank = 456th of 566 in state 20th of 24 in county〔 |population_as_of = 2010 Census |population_footnotes = 〔(DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for National Park borough, Gloucester County, New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed November 7, 2012.〕〔〔(Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 for National Park borough ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed November 7, 2012.〕 |population_total = 3036 |population_rank = 452nd of 566 in state 21st of 24 in county〔(GCT-PH1 Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - State -- County Subdivision from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 for New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed November 7, 2012.〕 |population_density_km2 = auto |population_density_sq_mi = 3023.2 |population_density_rank = 215th of 566 in state 6th of 24 in county〔 |population_est = 2995 |pop_est_as_of = 2014 |pop_est_footnotes = 〔 |timezone = Eastern (EST) |utc_offset = -5 |timezone_DST = Eastern (EDT) |utc_offset_DST = -4 |elevation_footnotes = 〔, Geographic Names Information System. Accessed March 8, 2013.〕 |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = 13 |coordinates_type = region:US_type:city |coordinates_region = US-NJ |coordinates_display = inline,title |coordinates_footnotes = 〔〔(US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990 ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |latd = 39.867297 |longd = -75.185621 |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 08063〔(Look Up a ZIP Code for National Park, NJ ), United States Postal Service. Accessed November 7, 2012.〕〔(Zip Codes ), State of New Jersey. Accessed August 28, 2013.〕 |area_code = 856〔(Area Code Lookup - NPA NXX for National Park, NJ ), Area-Codes.com. Accessed August 28, 2013.〕 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 3401549680〔〔(American FactFinder ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕〔(A Cure for the Common Codes: New Jersey ), Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed October 29, 2012.〕 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 0885314〔〔(US Board on Geographic Names ), United States Geological Survey. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |website = |footnotes = }} National Park is a borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 3,036,〔〔〔 reflecting a decline of 169 (-5.3%) from the 3,205 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 208 (-6.1%) from the 3,413 counted in the 1990 Census.〔(Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010 ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed November 7, 2012.〕 Despite its name, National Park is neither a national park nor associated with one. ==History== In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Army under command of George Washington constructed two forts on the Delaware River to block the approach to Philadelphia: Fort Mifflin on the Pennsylvania side and Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side in what is now National Park. The fort was named in honor of Brigadier General Hugh Mercer who had died earlier that year at the Battle of Princeton. A park, monument, and museum commemorate the fort on its original site. On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side (including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene. After the loss of Fort Mifflin, Fort Mercer was abandoned without a fight when Lord Charles Cornwallis landed 2,000 British troops nearby on November 18.〔( About National Park ), Borough of National Park. Accessed November 7, 2012.〕〔(Red Bank Battlefield Park ), Gloucester County, New Jersey. Accessed September 9, 2015.〕 Beginning in 1895, the area was commercially developed as a religious retreat for members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and called National Park on the Delaware. The founder, the Rev. James E. Lake, also created Ocean City, New Jersey.〔Shamlin, Wilford S. ("National Park has green, but no park" ), ''Courier Post'', July 1, 2005. Accessed November 7, 2012. "Originally named National Park on the Delaware River, National Park was incorporated on April 15, 1902. But it was several years earlier, in 1895, that the Rev. James E. Lake, who also founded Ocean City, and others incorporated The National Park Association."〕 National Park was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 15, 1902, from portions of West Deptford Township.〔Snyder, John P. (''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' ), Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 140. Accessed October 23, 2012.〕 The town name probably originated in reference to the Red Bank Battlefield Park.〔Hutchinson, Viola L. (''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names'' ), New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed September 9, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Park, New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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