The rest of the area was developed as Heritage Village beginning in 1959. Marlton Associates eventually abandoned the neighborhood after only a few dozen were built in 1958. They were 3 and 4 bedroom homes and sold for between $13,990 and $18,490 These 4 sample houses are visible in the top right of the aerial photo above, on the south side of Blanchard Road. The grand opening of Mayfair at Marlton took place on Apwith 4 sample homes to tour. You can see them on the bottom half of the map below, an aerial from 1957, all the houses surrounded by dirt.ġ957 Aerial - the 4 houses in the top right, just south of Route 70, are Mayfair At Marlton (Photo courtesy of John Flack)Īfter the developers for Georgetowne sold their interest in the remaining land, it was taken over by Marlton Associates, who had plans for a 2200 home community, with groundbreaking for the new neighborhood taking place on October 27, 1956. While 4000 were originally planned, less than 200 were built. Georgetowne was a neighborhood that was planned originally as a huge development of 4000 homes on 1500 acres of farmland that was first announced in 1955. The first Mayfair at Marlton was located on the south side of Route 70, in the area that is today known as Heritage, though the story begins even before Heritage, with the birth of Georgetowne. It was while I was researching Mayfair at Marlton that I became totally confused, because it turns out that there wasn't just one Mayfair at Marlton development - there were actually two of them! But Mayfair at Marlton was completely unrelated to that development. At first I assumed that it was Mayfair at Evesham, a development off Evesboro-Medford Road built in the late 80s.
I had already written about South Crossing, so I knew exactly where that was, but I was unfamiliar with Mayfair at Marlton. It was noted in the article that the land for Cambridge Park had previously been subdivided for the South Crossing and Mayfair at Marlton developments. I am publishing it anyhow, in the hopes that someone in Cambridge Park may have some original information on their home somewhere that will unlock the remaining mystery.Ī few weeks ago, I posted a headline from the Courier Post on the 50th Anniversary of the announcement of Cambridge Park in September 1969. Try as I might, I was unable to definitively write the ending, and I don't know where else to look.
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