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BRIDGETON

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 557 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city, See also:port of entry, and the See also:county-seat of See also:Cumberland county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., in the See also:south See also:part of the See also:state, on Cohansey See also:creek, 38 in. S. of See also:Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 11,424; (1900) 13,913, of whom 653 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 701 were negroes; (1905) 13,624; (1910) 14,209. It is served by the See also:West Jersey & See also:Sea See also:Shore and the Central of New jersey railway; by electric See also:railways connecting with adjacent towns, and by See also:Delaware See also:river steamboats on Cohansey creek, which is navigable to this point. It is an attractive residential city, has a See also:park of 65o acres and a See also:fine public library, and is the seat of West jersey See also:academy and of See also:Ivy See also:Hall, a school for girls. It is an important See also:market See also:town and distributing centre for a See also:rich agricultural region; among its manufactures are See also:glass (the product, chiefly glass bottles, being valued in 1905 at $1,252,795—42.3% of the value of all the city's factory products—and Bridgeton ranking eighth among the cities of the See also:United States in this See also:industry), machinery, clothing, and canned fruits and vegetables; it also has See also:dyeing and See also:finishing See also:works. Though Bridgeton is a port of entry, its foreign See also:commerce is relatively unimportant. The first See also:settlement in what is now Bridgeton was made toward the See also:close of the 18th See also:century. A See also:pioneer See also:iron-works was established here in 1814. The city of Bridgeton, formed by the See also:union of the township of Bridgeton and the township of Cohansey (incorporated in 1845 and 1848 respectively), was chartered in 1864.

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