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Roebling is an unincorporated community and census-designated place within Florence Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey.

Roebling was founded by Charles Roebling, son of bridge builder John A. Roebling, as a model company town for the John A. Roebling's Sons Company steel and wire rope plant, the Kinkora Works, built beginning in 1904 on farmland along the Delaware River.

Charles Roebling laid out about 750 brick houses on a rectangular grid with main streets 100 feet wide, and selected London plane trees to shade the medians.

By about 1910 the self-contained town had its own general store, school, hospital, bank and theater for a workforce community of roughly 4,000 people, many of them immigrant workers and their families.

Roebling's mills produced wire rope and steel for the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, the elevator cables for the Empire State Building and the Washington Monument, and even the wire for the original Slinky toy.

The Roebling Historic District, a 76-acre district with 94 contributing buildings, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1978, for its significance in architecture, industry, community planning and the immigrant experience.

The mill's 1907 Main Gate Building now houses the Roebling Museum, which opened in 2010 after an EPA-supported rehabilitation of the former Superfund mill site.

Roebling first appeared as a separate census-designated place in the 2010 census, when the former Florence-Roebling CDP was split into its Florence and Roebling components.

The 2020 census counted 3,585 residents in the Roebling CDP, down 3.5% from 3,715 in 2010.

Roebling's residents lived in 1,410 households at the 2020 census, within a CDP of about 1.15 square miles on the Delaware River.