Holly Ravine Farm is a

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and

shopping center A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof. The first known collec ...

located in

Cherry Hill, New Jersey Cherry Hill is a township within Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the township had a population of 74,553, which reflected an increase of 3,508 (+4.94%) from the 71,045 counted in the 2010 census.

, United States. The farm was the site of the Cowtail Bar, an

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established in 1933 by former Cherry Hill mayor John Gilmour, Jr., who was the first mayor of Cherry Hill (previously known as Delaware Township). In 1964, Gilmour added a

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on the property known as the Moo Zoo. He sold the Cowtail Bar in 1987. The farm is located on the corner of Evesham Road ( County Route 544) and Springdale Road ( County Route 673) on Cherry Hill's eastern side, near the border of Voorhees. Across the street in Voorhees is the site of Stafford Farm, another farm in the area. Plans to develop a 38,000-square-foot shopping center and a 3,000-square-foot

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on a piece of Holly Ravine Farm occurred in the late 1980s by Site Development Incorporated (SDI). Construction began in Spring 1989 to establish the Holly Ravine Shopping Center. Opened in 1990, the center includes a

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, a

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, a

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, a

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, a

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, a

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, and several other stores. A Commerce Bank (now

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) was built as a standalone building on the Holly Ravine property. The farm still operates and is located behind the shopping center.

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