Welcome to the Website of The Historic Burlington County Prison Museum Association. A National Historic Landmark located in the heart of historic Mount Holly, New Jersey. Check out our new audio tour! It takes approximately an hour to listen to the entire tour, but guests can take as long as they like. It is narrated by award winning Philadelphia stage actors Greg Wood & Susan Riley Stevens.
The Fourth Estate (or fourth power) is a societal or political force or institution whose influence is not consistently or officially recognized. Fourth Estate most commonly refers to the news media, especially print journalism or the press.Thomas Carlyle attributed the origin of the term to Edmund Burke, who used it in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of press reporting of the House of Commons of Great Britain.n United States English, the phrase fourth estate is contrasted with the  fourth branch of government , a term that originated because no direct equivalents to the estates of the realm exist in the United States.
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