Penny Pot, New Jersey | |
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Coordinates: 39°34′19″N 74°49′20″W / 39.57194°N 74.82222°W | |
Country | United States |
State | New Jersey |
County | Atlantic |
Borough | Folsom |
Elevation | 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]
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]