Rancocas Creek Beautification – Hainesport NJ

City:
Hainesport, NJ

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Description

The Federal Writers’ Project detailed a small CCC undertaking:

[In Hainesport, New Jersey] State 38 crosses the South Branch of Rancocas Creek, water highway for nearly 200 years, now a favorite resort of canoeists. Tiny fir trees have been planted in cut-over tracts by CCC workers.

Source notes

"New Jersey, a guide to its present and past"; Federal Writers' Project (page 621).

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 9, 2014.

Location Info


Hainesport, NJ Burlington County

Coordinates: 39.979141, -74.82401

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