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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. ^ 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.


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