Cohansey
- Identifier
- NJS-PLC-00420
- Place Type
- City, Town, or Village
- Description
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Cohansey is the name of a large river that flows through what is now Cumberland County. Colonial records in the late 17th century mention "Cohansey territory" in Salem County; this essentially refers to the entire area that would later become Cumberland County. This large territory was split into two townships in 1697: the Cohansey Township and the Fairfield Township. The boundaries of these two townships remained only loosely defined.
The Cohansey Township was dissolved as an administrative unit in 1748 when Cumberland County was created from the southeastern half of Salem County. Cumberland County was initially divided into 6 precincts, and none of them were called Cohansey. A small village called Cohansey Bridge (located on the Cohansey River) became the Cumberland County seat. The village would eventually grow into a city called Bridgeton.
Between 1748 and 1848, there was no municipality called Cohansey in Cumberland County. For a brief period from 1848 to 1865, a small area on the west side of the Cohansey River formed a new municipality called Cohansey Township. By 1865, this township dissolved when it merged with the area across the river to form a unified municipality called Bridgeton City. - Locality
- Cohansey
- County (Modern)
- Cumberland County
- County (Historical)
- Salem County
- State or Province
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States of America
- Related Place
- Bridgeton
- Latitude
- 39.42728549243179
- Longitude
- -75.23683027143595
- References
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John P. Snyder, The Story of New Jersey’s Civil Boundaries, 1606–1968 (Trenton, Bureau of Geology and Topography, 1969; New Jersey Geological Survey, 2004), p. 119.
- Record Contributor
- Kemy Rodriguez
- Linked Places
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