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Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia as part of the Delaware Valley, with a 2020 population of 71,791. Incorporated on February 13, 1828, the city was named after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, and has comprised over 20 neighborhoods in South Jersey. Historically, Camden's industrial growth was driven by three major employers - RCA Victor, Campbell's Soup Company, and New York Shipbuilding Corporation - before they relocated in the mid-to-late 20th century. The city has revitalized through waterfront redevelopment attracting the Battleship New Jersey Museum, Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, and Adventure Aquarium, while "eds and meds" institutions including Rutgers University-Camden (founded 1926), Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (opened 2012), and two major hospitals now account for approximately 45% of employment. Following restructuring of its police force in 2013, Camden's violent crime declined 46% from 1990s peaks, reaching its lowest level since the 1960s. Vineland is the most populous municipality in Cumberland County, New Jersey, located in South Jersey as part of the Vineland-Bridgeton metropolitan statistical area within the Delaware Valley region, with a 2020 census population of 60,780. Founded by Charles K. Landis, who purchased 53,000 acres starting in 1861 with intentions to build an alcohol-free, utopian agricultural community, Vineland was officially incorporated on July 1, 1952, following a merger of Landis Township and Vineland Borough approved by voters on February 5, 1952. The city's economy historically centered on grape cultivation (which inspired its name), with Thomas Bramwell Welch producing his famous grape juice from locally grown grapes, and later became known as "The Egg Basket of America" during the first half of the 20th century due to its dominant poultry farming industry. Vineland Poultry Laboratories, founded by Arthur Goldhaft, made significant contributions to global poultry health through fowl pox vaccine development before closing in 2007. The city is home to New Jersey's first school for people with intellectual disabilities, the Vineland Developmental Center, and has large Italian-American and Hispanic-American populations. Haddonfield is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, with a population of 12,550 as of the 2020 census, incorporated on April 6, 1875, and named after Elizabeth Haddon, a Quaker settler who arrived from England in 1701. The town is renowned as a significant paleontology site where the first relatively complete dinosaur skeleton found in North America, Hadrosaurus foulkii, was excavated from a marl pit in 1858 and is now displayed at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Haddonfield played a crucial role in American Revolutionary War history, as the Indian King Tavern, built in 1750, served as a meeting place for the New Jersey Legislature, which declared the state's independence in 1777. The borough has functioned as a dry town since 1873, prohibiting alcohol sales though allowing brewing and distribution, and is recognized as a legal center for southern New Jersey with over 390 attorneys' offices. Haddonfield is home to Haddon Fire Company No. 1, established in 1764 as the second oldest volunteer fire company in continuous service in the United States, and was the first New Jersey municipality to secede from an existing township in 1875.