Cranberry Inlet Explained

Cranberry Inlet (also known as New Inlet or Toms River Inlet) was an inlet connecting Barnegat Bay with the Atlantic Ocean in Ocean County, New Jersey. It has been closed since 1812.

Geography

Cranberry Inlet separated Squan Beach from Island Beach, both today comprising the Barnegat Peninsula. The inlet was approximately located at the boundary between Ortley Beach and Seaside Heights, nearly opposite the mouth of the Toms River.

It was described in 1834 as,

History

In 1767, Cranberry Inlet is mentioned in the boundary description of the legislation creating Dover Township.^[1] The former inlet is also mentioned in the act setting Berkeley Township off from Dover Township.^{[2] [3]}

In 1874, Former Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly Edwin Salter wrote at length about Cranberry Inlet in Old Times in Old Monmouth:

Access to the upper part of Barnegat Bay was finally achieved in 1925 with the opening of the Point Pleasant Canal.

See also

• Barnegat Bay
• Barnegat Peninsula
• Island Beach
• Squan Beach

References

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Notes and References

1. An ACT to divide the Town of Shrewsbury, and annex Parts thereof to the Towns of Freehold and Upper Freehold, passed June 24, 1767; Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Surrender of the Government to Queen Anne, on the 17th Day of April, in the Year of our Lord 1702, to the 14th Day of January, 1776. Compiled and published under the Appointment of the General Assembly, and compared with the Original Acts, by Samuel Allinson; Burlington, NJ; Printed by Isaac Collins, Printer to the King, for the Province of New-Jersey; Chap. CCCCLX; p. 299
2. P. L. 1875, Chapter 285; State of New Jersey
3. Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 201. Accessed October 22, 2018.