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Dingmans Ferry is an unincorporated community in Delaware Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2014, it had a population of just over 1,000 people. [ 1 ] It was originally sited on the Delaware River , in an area now included in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area .
The road was designated PA 739 in 1967 between US 209 and US 6 and has kept the designation since then. [2] In 1978, the road just south of I-84 to two miles (3 km) north of Dingmans Ferry was paved. From 1999 and before, the intersection with PA 434 used to be with SR 1001. [6] The road was changed to PA 434 on the 2003 Pike County Maps. [7]
The ferry was operated once again by the Dingmans until the property was sold in 1875 to John W. Kilsby, Sr. Kilsby's family operated the ferry until the turn of the twentieth century when the current bridge was constructed using some materials recycled from a railroad bridge on the Susquehanna River. This bridge has survived major floods in ...
The detour set in place takes motorists across the Dingmans Ferry Bridge and Old Mine Road or via PA 739 and State Route 2001 (Milford Road) to access Milford. [24] Delaware Township has asked the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to keep PA 739 near US 209 clear of snow, due to the importance of the intersection.
It is located in Dingmans Ferry in Delaware Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania and is named for the late newspaper publisher George William Childs, whose widow deeded the land to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1912. [1]
The Dingmans Ferry Bridge, the last privately owned toll bridge on the Delaware River and one of the very few left in the United States, is located here. It connects Delaware Township with Sandyston Township, New Jersey.
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Dingman Township is a township in Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 12,487 at the 2020 census, [2] up from 11,926 in 2010.The Township was named in honor of Judge Daniel Westbrook Dingman, and was created on April 17, 1832 [3] from part of the former Upper Smithfield township.