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Vineland is a city in Cumberland County founded in 1861 by Charles K. Landis, who bought some 30,000 acres near Millville to build an alcohol-free, agriculture-based utopian community along the railroad between Camden and Cape May.

Landis laid out the town around Landis Avenue, a 100-foot-wide main street about a mile long, and required buyers to build a house within a year, clear and cultivate their land, and plant flowers and shade trees along the streets.

The city took its name from Landis's plan for grape growing: after finding the sandy soil ideal for vineyards, he offered 20-acre plots to Italian growers who agreed to clear the land and plant grapevines.

In 1869, Vineland dentist Thomas Bramwell Welch pasteurized Concord grape juice to create an unfermented wine for church communion, an experiment that grew into the Welch's grape juice company.

Vineland was the home of John Landis Mason, who invented the screw-top Mason jar for home food preservation in the 1850s.

Poultry farming dominated Vineland's economy in the first half of the 20th century, earning it the nickname 'The Egg Basket of America,' and Arthur Goldhaft of Vineland Poultry Laboratories developed a fowl-pox vaccine credited with saving millions of chickens.

The modern City of Vineland was incorporated in 1952, when voters approved the merger of Vineland Borough and surrounding Landis Township.

Covering about 69 square miles, Vineland is the largest city by land area in New Jersey, yet much of it remains farmland and the city's motto-style slogan celebrates its growing season.

The 2020 census counted 60,780 people in 22,176 households in Vineland, making it the most populous municipality in Cumberland County.

Vineland is home to the Delsea Drive-In Theatre on Route 47, built in 1949, closed in 1987 and reopened in 2004, which stands as New Jersey's only remaining drive-in movie theater.