However, the twin city scheme was dropped in favor of one seven-mile-long metropolis called 'Egg Harbor City'. The corporation planned two cities: a four-square-mile city called 'Pomona' closest to the railroad, and another city called 'Gloucester' to the north. On December 14, 1854, a group of prominent German Americans from Philadelphia, including William and Henry Schmoele and Philip Mathias Wolsieffer, incorporated the 'Gloucester Farm and Town Association', which purchased approximately 38,000 acres of woodland north of the railroad to serve as a refuge for those being persecuted in the anti-immigrant violence known as the Know-Nothing movement. In 1854, the Camden and Atlantic Railroad opened. Panoramic map of Egg City Harbor from 1924 with list of landmarks, inset images of several, and a depiction of the area in 1855 1940 Census map of Egg Harbor City land plots, showing unbuilt streets and parks

The first settlers named the area 'Eyren Haven' after the large number of gull eggs in the area. The area home to Egg Harbor City was settled by Europeans in 1614, when the Dutch vessel Fortuyn landed at the Mullica River.

The city had the seventh-highest property tax rate in New Jersey, with an equalized rate of 5.044% in 2020, compared to 2.560% in the county as a whole and a statewide average of 2.279%. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 4,396, an increase of 153 (+3.6%) from the 2010 census count of 4,243, which in turn reflected a decline of 302 (−6.6%) from the 4,545 counted in the 2000 census. The city, and all of Atlantic County, is part of the Atlantic City- Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which in turn is included in the Philadelphia- Reading- Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley.

Egg Harbor City is a city in Atlantic County, in the U.S.

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