Where the Pines
Touch the Sea.

Galloway's story begins long before its royal charter. For thousands of years, the Lenni Lenape people moved through these pine-shadowed rivers and coastal inlets, their seasonal migrations following cedar streams that still run tea-brown through the wetlands today.

On April 4, 1774, a Royal charter formally established Galloway — named, it is believed, for the historic Scottish region or for Joseph Galloway, a prominent colonial figure. Incorporated as one of New Jersey's original 104 townships on February 21, 1798, it once encompassed territory that would eventually become Hammonton, Mullica Township, and portions of Atlantic City itself.

What remains is something rarer: a municipality of uncommon scale and character, where the Pinelands National Reserve — a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve — presses right up against the university quad, the wildlife refuge, and the village green.