Cohansey

The Cohansey flows south through the lowlands of New Jersey to Delaware Bay. Below Bridgeton it widens into a tidal estuary about ten miles long, turning west through mudflats toward the bay. Salt marshes and wetlands surround its mouth, while the upper river crosses a country of woods and fields. At low tide the channel through Bridgeton becomes very shallow.

In colonial times, vessels approaching Philadelphia found anchorage on the river. In December 1774, inhabitants of Greenwich, a small port near its mouth, burned imported tea in protest against British taxation, an act reminiscent of the Boston Tea Party. The Cohansey was also known to colonists as the Cesaria River, another name for the waterway linking the port to Delaware Bay.