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Millville Maurice River, Millville, N.J.

Millville

New Jersey, United States
Also known as: Maurice River Bridge, Shingle Landing
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Millville, city, Cumberland county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It lies at the head of navigation on the Maurice River, 45 miles (72 km) south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Union Lake, formed by a dam (1806), is to the northwest. The earliest settlers were woodcutters who built cabins along the riverbank in the late 1700s. Once a part of Maurice River and Fairfield townships and known successively as Shingle Landing, Maurice River Bridge, and The Bridge, the...

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