Mizpah, New Jersey

Mizpah is an unincorporated community located within the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.[2]

Mizpah, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
Mizpah
Location within Atlantic County. Inset: Location of Atlantic County within New Jersey.
Mizpah
Mizpah (New Jersey)
Mizpah
Mizpah (the United States)
Coordinates: 39°29′12″N 74°50′09″W
Country United States
State New Jersey
CountyAtlantic
TownshipHamilton
Elevation
28 m (92 ft)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Zip Code
08342
GNIS feature ID878423[1]

Mizpah was established as a Jewish colony in southern New Jersey and was planned out by a New York firm of cloak makers. It originally had a factory, 30 houses, and about 100 settlers.[3]

Uncle Dewey's is a popular barbecue stand located in Mizpah, along U.S. Route 40.[4]

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Hamilton Township include:

gollark: * weeb NAS
gollark: If you look at shodan and such there are apparently just public industrial control systems.
gollark: Another possible angle for causing lots of damage is computer systems, since apparently lots of devices running important stuff like factories and water supplies are wildly insecure.
gollark: They wouldn't have to, they could just magically™ do filtering on-device.
gollark: https://tails.boum.org/

References
  1. "Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)". Retrieved July 2, 2011.
  2. Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed June 8, 2016.
  3. Franklin Dye (1901). New Jersey Hand-book. State Board of Agriculture. p. 27. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
  4. Beverly Savage (August 17, 2003). "Where There's Smoke". The New York Times. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
  5. "Hall of Fame Focus: Shameka Marshall", Rutgers University, October 19, 2017. Accessed November 12, 2017 ."Shameka Marshall found herself walking down the hallways of the RAC with her track and field coach James Robinson wondering about the faces that appeared on the wall.... The Mizpah, New Jersey native, however, hesitated about making the leap to college athletics from high school."


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