Connemara Ponies for Sale near Swedesboro, NJ

About Swedesboro, NJ

Swedesboro was settled as part of New Sweden in the mid-1600s. The early Swedes and Finns were fishermen, hunters and farmers. The English Colonial government needed a road between the communities of Burlington and Salem, so they built the Kings Highway in 1691 which opened the southern portion of Gloucester County to more settlers, who were drawn to the area by the fertile sandy soil, prime farmland and vast tracts of oak, birch, maple and pine trees. Originally, the community was called Raccoon, until the name was changed to Swedesboro in 1765. Swedesboro, along with Bridgeport, was one of only two settlements established in New Jersey as a part of the New Sweden colony.