Penny Pot is an unincorporated community within the borough of Folsom in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[1][2]

Penny Pot, New Jersey
Penny Pot is located in Atlantic County, New Jersey
Penny Pot
Penny Pot
Location in Atlantic County (Inset: Atlantic County in New Jersey)
Penny Pot is located in New Jersey
Penny Pot
Penny Pot
Penny Pot (New Jersey)
Penny Pot is located in the United States
Penny Pot
Penny Pot
Penny Pot (the United States)
Coordinates: 39°34′19″N 74°49′20″W / 39.57194°N 74.82222°W / 39.57194; -74.82222
Country United States
State New Jersey
CountyAtlantic
BoroughFolsom
Elevation15 m (49 ft)
Time zoneUTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−04:00 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID879222[1]

History

edit

English settlers arrived in 1686 and named the settlement "Penny Pot" because it resembled the English countryside.[3] The Hospitality Branch flows into the Great Egg Harbor River at Penny Pot, and a dam was built made of timbers salvaged from the hull of a British ship pirated during the Revolutionary War.[4] The settlement was a group of houses around a tavern of the same name, and was described in 1915 as, "a settlement of other years, one large house remaining".[5]

References

edit
  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Penny Pot
  2. ^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed June 9, 2016.
  3. ^ Cawley, James S.; Cawley, Margaret (1993). Exploring the Little Rivers of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780813520131.
  4. ^ John, McPhee (2011). The Pine Barrens. Macmillan. ISBN 9780374708672.
  5. ^ Early History of Atlantic County, New Jersey. Atlantic County Historical Society. 1915. pp. 163–164.