Penny Pot, New Jersey

Penny Pot, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 39°34′19″N 74°49′20″W
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Atlantic
Borough	Folsom
Elevation [1]	15 m (49 ft)
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID	879222[1]

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

History

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

1. 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.