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Little Egg Harbor Township was formed on February 13, 1740, as Egg Harbour Township from portions of Northampton Township (now Mount Holly), while the area was still part of Burlington County. It was incorporated as one of New Jersey's 104 in the Township Act of 1798 by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.
It was originally called Egg Harbor by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests. The bay is part of the Intracoastal Waterway . The historical spelling for the bay is "Little Egg Harbour" as found on maps provide by Rutgers University: [ 1 ] 1706, 1775, 1777, 1784, 1795, 1826, and 1834.
Little Egg Inlet is an inlet connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Bay along the southeastern coast of New Jersey, United States. Little Egg Inlet forms a maritime border separating Little Egg Harbor Township in southern Ocean County and Galloway Township in northeastern Atlantic County .
The Affair at Little Egg Harbor took place on October 15, 1778, in South Jersey during the American Revolutionary War. American Loyalists killed 45 Patriot men, bayonetting them as they slept. The massacre took place about one week after the Battle of Chestnut Neck , a British raid aimed at suppressing privateers who used the area as a base to ...
Portions of the township were taken to form Little Egg Harbor Township (February 13, 1740, now part of Ocean County), Washington Township (November 19, 1802), Pemberton borough (December 15, 1826), Coaxen Township (March 10, 1845, now known as Southampton Township), Pemberton Township (March 10, 1846), Westampton Township (March 6, 1850) and ...
Mystic Island (also called Mystic Islands or Mystic) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [7] located within Little Egg Harbor Township, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Police in Little Egg Harbor went to an East Hudson Drive home at 4:30 a.m. on Sept. 9 after receiving a report of shots fired in the area. Officers found a 36 year-old man with several gunshot ...
The Mullica River is a 50.6-mile-long (81.4 km) [1] river in southern New Jersey in the United States.The Mullica was once known as the Little Egg Harbor River.. The river provides one of the principal drainages into the Atlantic Ocean of the extensive Pinelands.