The English pioneers established the settlement of Waterford Township, in 1695, which was one of the original townships of old Gloucester County. The community had a successful, varied, and long existence as a mill community as well as an agricultural center. The residents of this settlement held a town meeting and incorporated the township under the name of Delaware Township in 1844. This township then became part of the newly organized Camden County. In 1886, the description of Delaware Township was a prosperous agricultural community that was primarily comprised of carriage making shops and gristmills.