Woodbury was established in 1683 by Henry Wood, a Quaker from Bury, England. It was incorporated on March 10, 1854.

1. In the 1970’s Woodbury became the first city in the United States to mandate recycling.
2. In 1898 Henry Morse founded New York Shipbuilding Company in Camden. At its peak during WWII, it employed over 40,000 people and was the largest, most productive shipyard in the world. By the time of its closing in 1967 it had produced over 670 naval and merchant vessels.
3. The origin of the name Runnemede remains uncertain. Many doubt that the name originated from Runnymede, England, as no link has been found between the two, but there are other stories. One involves Revolutionary War General George Meade. The other, perhaps more popular one, is that a conductor nicknamed the local train station “rum we need” because of Teall’s Hotel, a watering hole in town.