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Buena Vista was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 5, 1867, from portions of Hamilton Township.

Portions of the township were taken on May 23, 1906, to create Folsom, and on September 1, 1948, to create Buena.

The name comes from the 1847 Battle of Buena Vista of the Mexican-American War.