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Finns Point

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56: 116: 86: 146: 508:, September 10, 2010. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Killcohook, in Pennsville Township, is another. Not only is it a 'confined disposal facility' for dredging materials, Killcohook is also the name of a nearby wildlife refuge. It borders another wildlife refuge, Supawna, as well as the Finns Point National Cemetery, the Finns Point Lighthouse and Fort Mott State Park." 153: 123: 93: 63: 731: 308:
in 1638. among them, the family of Anders Sinicka, whose surname has many variations. This is recalled in the name of the road running along the shore south of the Port of Salem, Sinnicksons Landing Road. which bears the name of the a prominent Salem County family, including
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Sinick Brour is called a Finn in a land record in Vol. XV (p. 61) of the Penn MSS (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). On the Finnish origin of the Sinnexson, or Sennecson, family see The journal and Biography of Nicholas Collin, tr. Amandus Johnson (Philadelphia, 1936), p.
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FINNS POINT Near Here 300 Years Ago and Later Lived the First Colony Of Settlers of Finnish Blood Upon This Continent **To Their Memory and To The Love of Freedom And Justice that They Handed Down to Their Descendants This Tablet is Erected June 30,
246:, part of the promontory is actually enclosed within the state of Delaware's border, due to tidal flow and the manner in which the borders between New Jersey and Delaware were first laid out. Therefore, this portion of Finns Point, also called 532: 746: 977: 55: 932: 887: 967: 912: 922: 539: 947: 458: 425: 475: 952: 878: 115: 145: 449: 278: 892: 400: 85: 962: 957: 942: 849: 782: 756: 564: 618: 917: 499: 454: 219: 640: 937: 339:
was constructed directly across the river on the west bank of the Delaware and by 1655, the region came under the control of
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but is now a confined disposal facility used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Channel 6 Action News (Philadelphia) Special Report on Finns Point
533:"Seventeenth Century Salem County, New Jersey – 1600 through 1699" 301: 343:, which it remained until 1664 when the English overran the 289:
At the time of European colonization in the 17th century the
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In 1641, a group of 60 settlers (20 families) from the
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Tradition holds that a settlement was first planted by
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History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey
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"John Fenwick." 459:United States Department of the Interior 426:Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge 436: 47: 968:Swedish American culture in New Jersey 913:Finnish-American culture in New Jersey 693: 682: 641:"The Finnish Language on the Delaware" 923:Landforms of Salem County, New Jersey 898:Finnish American History (in Finnish) 293:was known as the South River and the 7: 470: 468: 75:Show map of Salem County, New Jersey 669:Vuorinen, Ask (December 27, 2012). 450:Geographic Names Information System 397:E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company 279:Killcohook National Wildlife Refuge 152: 122: 92: 62: 844:. Bridgeton, New Jersey, pp. 3-17 563:Math Teacher (December 10, 2010). 401:Carneys Point Township, New Jersey 371:, a military cemetery used in the 367:The promontory is the location of 25: 594:Finnish Place Names - New Jersey 151: 144: 121: 114: 91: 84: 61: 54: 948:Pennsville Township, New Jersey 455:United States Geological Survey 268:Chesapeake & Delaware Canal 519:Placenames of Salem County, NJ 1: 953:Exclaves in the United States 888:Finns Point National Cemetery 745:Chandler, Alfred N. (2000) , 369:Finns Point National Cemetery 165:Show map of the United States 751:, Beard Books, p. 242, 643:. Genealogia. Archived from 596:. Genealogia. Archived from 771:Sheridan, Janet L. (2007). 639:Dunlap, A.R.; E. J. Moyne. 383:soldiers who died while at 328:, just east of present-day 228:New Castle County, Delaware 994: 864:Finnish place name origins 720:, Rutgers University Press 407:. 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Finns Point, New Jersey
Promonotory
Finns Point is located in Salem County, New Jersey
Finns Point is located in Delaware
Finns Point is located in New Jersey
Finns Point is located in the United States
39°36′21″N 75°33′38″W / 39.60583°N 75.56056°W / 39.60583; -75.56056
promontory
Pennsville Township
Salem County, New Jersey
New Castle County, Delaware
Penns Neck
Delaware River
Delaware Bay
Delaware
exclave
Delaware Bay
Wilmington
New Castle
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Pea Patch Island
Killcohook National Wildlife Refuge
Delaware River
Salem River
Finns
New Sweden
Thomas Sinnickson
New Haven Colony
kill
Fort Nya Elfsborg

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