Wilburtha, New Jersey | |
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 Homes at the intersection of Blackwood Drive and Wilburtha Road in the Wilburtha section of Ewing, New Jersey | |
  Wilburtha  Wilburtha  Wilburtha | |
| Coordinates:40°15′07″N74°49′57″W / 40.25194°N 74.83250°W /40.25194; -74.83250 | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New Jersey |
| County | Mercer |
| Township | Ewing |
| Elevation | 62 ft (19 m) |
| GNIS feature ID | 881825[1] |
Wilburtha is asection ofEwing Township inMercer County, in theU.S. state ofNew Jersey.[2] Located where Wilburtha Road crosses theDelaware and Raritan Canal,[3] it is one of the oldest settlements in Ewing Township and developed due to the construction of the canal in the early 19th century. The community was known asGreensburg before adopting its current name in 1883.[4] TheYardley–Wilburtha Bridge once connected Wilburtha toYardley,Pennsylvania on the other side of theDelaware River.[5] TheBelvidere Delaware Railroad once passed through the village. Today, Wilburtha is primarily a residential neighborhood consisting of detached, single-family homes, the majority of which were built in the 1950s through the early 1980s. There are still manyGeorgian andFederal-style homes found in the area.[6]
The Greensburg/Wilburtha section was built up after the Delaware and Raritan Canal was built in 1834. The village contained 30 homesteads, a general store, a post office, a tavern, a railroad station on the Belvidere-Delaware (Bel-Del) line, and numerous quarries. Along with the canals, the quarries used the railroad to transport their product known as Greensburg Stone or Trenton Brown Stone. Greensburg was renamed Wilburtha in 1883.
Wilburtha is a neighborhood of detached single family homes built during the 1950s (Blackwood Drive, Boxwood Court, Middleton Avenue, Ramson Avenue, Wakefield Drive, Wilburtha Road) and the 1980s (Locke Court, Riverview Drive, Wilburtha Road). Access to the Wilburtha neighborhood is from River Road onto Wilburtha Road or Upper Ferry Road West onto Riverview Drive.
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