Talk:List of turnpikes in New Jersey

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A small sentence would have been good. Anyone outside the us would have no idea--AdamJWC 04:48, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you should read the article on turnpikes; they started in the UK. --NE2 04:53, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Partial alphabetical list

This is from [1] (1801-1860; I don't know if any were built after then):

  1. Bergen
  2. Beverly and Mount Holly
  3. Bordentown and Columbus
  4. Bordentown and Crosswicks
  5. Bordentown and Hornerstown
  6. Bordentown and South Amboy
  7. Bridgeton and Fairfield
  8. Bridgeton and Millville
  9. Burlington and Beverly
  10. Burlington and Mount Holly
  11. Burlington and Willingsboro
  12. Camden and Blackwoodtown
  13. Camden, Ellisburg and Marlton
  14. Cape May
  15. Crosswicks and Trenton
  16. Deckertown and Newton
  17. Essex and Middlesex
  18. Farmers
  19. Franklin
  20. Freehold and Colts Neck
  21. Freehold and Howell Plank Road
  22. Georgetown and Franklin
  23. Glassboro and Carpenter's Landing
  24. Glassboro and Malaga
  25. Gloucester and Salem
  26. Hackensack and Paterson
  27. Haddonfield and Camden
  28. Hainesport, Lumberton and Vincentown
  29. Holmdel and Keyport
  30. Hopewell and Ewing
  31. Jersey City and Bergen Point Plank Road
  32. Longacoming and Chews Landing
  33. Medford and Tuckerton
  34. Middletown and Keyport
  35. Millville and Malaga
  36. Monmouth County Plank Road
  37. Moorestown and Camden
  38. Moorestown and Mount Laurel
  39. Morris
  40. Mount Holly and Jobstown
  41. Mount Holly and Moorestown
  42. Mount Holly and Pemberton South
  43. Mt. Holly, Lumberton and Medford
  44. Mullica Hill and Camden
  45. Mullica Hill and Woodstown
  46. New Germantown
  47. New Jersey
  48. Newark
  49. Newark and Morris
  50. Newark and Mount Pleasant
  51. Newark and Pompton
  52. Newark Plank Road
  53. Parsippany and Rockaway
  54. Paterson and Hamburg
  55. Paterson and New York Plank Road
  56. Perth Amboy
  57. Pittstown and Barnsboro
  58. Pittstown and Bridgeton
  59. Pochuck
  60. Port Elizabeth and Millville
  61. Port Monmouth and Middletown
  62. Princeton and Kingston Branch
  63. Ringwood and Long Pond
  64. Salem and Woodstown
  65. Shrewsbury
  66. South River and Freehold Plank Road
  67. Springfield and Newark
  68. Trenton and Allentown
  69. Trenton and New Brunswick
  70. Union
  71. Vincentown and Tabernacle
  72. Washington
  73. Westfield and Camden
  74. White Horse
  75. Woodbridge
  76. Woodbury and Crosskeys

[edit] Others that show up on old maps, but for which I don't have the name

  • Woodbury - Red Bank via Red Bank Avenue
  • Mantua Creek - Red Bank via Grove Road/Street/Avenue
  • Woodbury - Good Intent via Cooper Street
  • Phillipsburg - Belvidere via Phillipsburg Belvidere Road
  • Camden - Gloucester - Woodbury via Broadway
  • Boonton - Denville via Main Street (Boonton)
  • Toms River - somewhere south via Route 166

[edit] List of laws

47th (1822)

none

48th (1823)

none

49th (1824)
  • 1824-12-07: An act supplementary to an act to extend the Paterson and Hamburgh Turnpike to the Hudson river. [time limit]
  • 1824-12-27: A supplement to the act entitled An act to incorporate a company to erect a turnpike from the town of Paterson to the village of Hackensack. [time limit]
50th (1825)
  • 1825-11-22: An act to incorporate the Paterson and New-Prospect Turnpike Company.
    • Paterson to Franklin Turnpike
  • 1825-11-26: An act to incorporate the Paterson and New-Antrim Turnpike Company.
    • Paterson to New York state line
  • 1825-12-07: An act to revive the act entitled "An act to authorize a turnpike road to be made from Deckertown, in the county of Sussex, to the Delaware, nearly opposite to Milford, in the state of Pennsylvania," passed November twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and nine. [time limit]
51st (1826)
  • 1826-12-08: A further supplement to an act, entitled "An act to incorporate a company to erect a Turnpike from Bordentown to South Amboy," passed February the sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. [bridges]
  • 1826-12-16: An act to promote the making of a turnpike road from Deckertown, in the county of Sussex, to the Delaware, nearly opposite to Milford, in the state of Pennsylvania. [funding]

--NE2 00:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)