Gloucester County is home to the first county based EMS agency in New Jersey providing services to the municipalities of Logan, Woolwich, Swedesboro, East Greenwich, Gibbstown, Paulsboro, West Deptford, National Park, Mantua, Pitman, Glassboro, Clayton, Woodbury, South Harrison and Wenonah.

At the intersection with College Boulevard, the route forms the border between Woodbury Heights to the east and West Deptford Township to the west, crossing over the New Jersey Turnpike without an interchange.

Over the centuries, portions of the township were taken to create Washington Township ( February 17, 1836 ), Woodbury Borough ( March 27, 1854 ; now Woodbury City ), West Deptford Township ( March 1, 1871 ), Wenonah ( March 10, 1883 ), Westville ( April 7, 1914 ) and Woodbury Heights ( April 6, 1915 ).

Deptford Township borders Mantua Township, Washington Township, Wenonah, West Deptford Township, Westville, Woodbury and Woodbury Heights.

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* Woodbury Kane ( 1859 – 1905 ), American yachtsman, bon vivant and soldier

* Woodbury Langdon ( 1739 – 1805 ), American merchant, statesman and justice

* Austin Woodbury ( 1899 – 1979 ), Australian Catholic philosopher

Woodbury ( born 1959 ), Canadian actor and comedian

* Bruce L. Woodbury ( born 1944 ), American politician and lawyer

* Charles Herbert Woodbury ( 1864 – 1942 ), American painter

* Charles Johnson Woodbury ( 1844 – 1927 ), American lecturer on poetry and literature

* Cliff Woodbury ( 1894 – 1984 ), American racecar driver

* Daniel Phineas Woodbury ( 1812 – 1864 ), American soldier and engineer

* Egburt E. Woodbury ( c. 1860 – 1920 ), New York State Attorney General 1915 – 1917

* Eri D. Woodbury ( 1837 – 1928 ), Union Army officer during the American Civil War

* Frank B. Woodbury ( 1867 – 1962 ), American leader The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* Gordon Woodbury ( 1863 – 1924 ), United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1920 to 1921

* Isaac B. Woodbury ( 1819 – 1858 ), American composer and publisher of church music

* Joan Woodbury ( 1915 – 1989 ), American actress

* Levi Woodbury ( 1789 – 1851 ), American justice on the United States Supreme Court

* Peter Woodbury ( 1899 – 1970 ), American judge

* Richard Woodbury ( born 1961 ), American politician and economist

* Tory Woodbury ( born 1978 ), American football player

* Urban A. Woodbury ( 1838 – 1915 ), American politician

* Walter B. Woodbury ( 1834 – 1885 ), British inventor and pioneering photographer

* Wendall Woodbury ( 1942 – 2010 ), American television journalist and news anchor

* Woody Woodbury ( born 1924 ), American comedian, actor and television personality

In Woodbury ( even then the main town ) was located the county courthouse, the county jail, a Quaker meeting house ( still in existence ), and an inn ( on the current location of Woodbury Crossings ).

On June 24, 1833, the staff and dignitaries including Vice President Martin Van Buren, Secretary of War Lewis Cass, Secretary of the Navy Levi Woodbury, and many Massachusetts officials, witnessed " one of the great events of American naval history ": the United States frigate Constitution was inaugurating the first naval drydock in New England designed by prominent civil engineer Loammi Baldwin, Jr .. On March 14, 1975, the historic ship floated out of the dock — the last commissioned vessel to use the facility.

The hymn writer Sarah Flower Adams ( 1805 – 1848 ) lived with her husband William Bridges Adams ( 1797 – 1872 ) at a house called ' Sunnybank ', demolished in 1888 and replaced by No. 9 Woodbury Hill.

( They leased a house in the area beginning in 1941 but maintained a New York apartment for a while as well ; in 1946 they purchased the farm and moved to Woodbury permanently.

* Warrior Hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Woodbury County, Iowa

* Sioux City Central High School, listed on the NRHP in Woodbury County, Iowa

Two Dartmouth alumni have served as justices on the Supreme Court of the United States: Salmon P. Chase and Levi Woodbury.

* Woodbury Glacier, a glacier on Graham Land, British Antarctic Territory

* Fort Woodbury, a fortification on the Arlington Line during the American Civil War

There was a Roman fort on the crossroads at Woodbury Farm, just south of the present town.

The final boundary change occurred on October 8, 1807, when the town of Middlebury was established from part of Woodbury.

A wool company, Woodbury & Welsh, constructed a brick factory on the northeast part of town in 1864, and a brewery was built in 1866 on the eastside.

The boundaries of the county were set on January 15, 1851 and attached to Woodbury County ( then called Wahkaw County ) for administration purposes.

Lyon County officially split from Woodbury County on January 1, 1872.

Here, Route 45 forms a concurrency with County Route 551 and heads north-northeast on Broad Street through the downtown of Woodbury.

Meanwhile, Route 45 continues north along the border between Deptford Township to the east and Woodbury to the west, with a Conrail Shared Assets Operations railroad line closely paralleling the route on its east side.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation never followed through on this proposal, instead proposing a widening project to create a four-lane divided highway for the full length of Route 45 from Woodbury to Salem, of which only a small portion was ever completed by the 1980s, running from the border of Woodbury to the border of Mantua Township.

The Town of Woodbury ( which comprises the hamlets of Central Valley and Highland Mills ) and the area formerly known as the hamlet of Woodbury Falls was officially created on December 19, 1889 by an act of the Orange County Board of Supervisors.

During the American Revolution, the area was shown on maps as Woodbury Clove.

* Lebanon – A former hamlet in the western part of Woodbury, on Shunnemunk Mountain

* Woodbury – The former hamlet of Woodbury is north of Highland Mills, on NY-32.

The following have served as town supervisor of Woodbury, either by election or on an acting basis since the founding of the town.