Daily News | Delaware owns a small chunk of South Jersey
— In Salem County, N.J., about seven miles south of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, a small chunk of land abuts the Delaware River.
Thanks to an unusual border agreement between William Penn and King Charles II of England, signed 340 years ago, one-third of the 1,430-acre site is physically attached to South Jersey, but technically sits in the First State, the mainland of which is a little more than a mile across the river. The Corps has authority over the tiny swath of land.in Pennsville, the little-known spot has been nicknamed “The Baja” by locals after the region in northwestern Mexico.
For those in Delaware who know about the minuscule map dot, “that land is a symbol,” said hydrologist Gerald Kauffman, director of the University of Delaware Water Resources Center. The circular boundary may be the only such political border in the United States, historians have said, adding that it’s quite unusual for a river that divides two states not to be split 50-50.
Jokingly, New Jersey legislators said they’d escalate the dispute by bringing Battleship New Jersey down to face off against recalcitrant Delawareans, whose House of Representatives countered by saying they’d call up the National Guard. No shots were fired.On a recent warm day, Tim Rooney, project manager with the Corps’ Philadelphia district, led a tour of Killcohook in his four-wheel drive truck.
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