Cohansey Creek

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Cohansey Creek (also called the Cohansey River) is a river, approximately 35 mi (56 km) long, in southern New Jersey in the United States. The creek drains approximately 108 sq mi (284 km²) of rural agricultural and forested lowlands on the north shore of Delaware Bay.

It rises in central Salem County, approximately 5 mi (8 km) southeast of Woodstown, and flows south, through rural Cumberland County. At Bridgeton it becomes navigable, widening in a tidal estuary, approximately 10 mi (16 km) long, that flows south, then west, entering Cohansey Cove on Delaware Bay, approximately 7 mi (11 km) southwest of Bridgeton. The mouth of the estuary is surrounded by extensive wetlands and salt marshes.

In colonial times the creek provided an anchorage for vessels approaching Philadelphia. In 1774, the small port village of Greenwich on the creek near its mouth was the scene of an incident similar to the more famous Boston Tea Party in which imported tea was burned as a protest against taxation.