Finn's Point

Finn's Point is a New Jersey historical marker in Salem County, dedicated 1937.

On Broadway Road running from Pennsville to Salem, at Penns Neck (near Harrisonville) at Jct. of Broadway and Fort Mott Road. · location approximate

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Four miles to the south is Finn's Point National Cemetery where are buried 2,436 Confederate soldiers who died at Fort Delaware while prisoners of war. More than 100 Union soldiers also lie there.

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Historical maps covering this location

1904 · Wilmington, Delaware (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1919 · Wilmington, Delaware (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1924 · Maryland and Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1927 · New Jersey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1948 · Delaware City, Delaware (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Wilmington, Delaware, 1919, covering the location of Finn's Point, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Wilmington, Delaware, 1919, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Finn's Point

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