BRIDGETON  , a

city, port of entry, and the county-seat of Cumberland county, New Jersey, U.S.A., in the south part of the state, on Cohansey creek, 38 in . S. of Philadelphia . Pop . (1890) 11,424; (1900) 13,913, of whom 653 were foreign-born and 701 were negroes; (1905) 13,624; (1910) 14,209 . It is served by the West Jersey & Sea Shore and the Central of New jersey railway; by electric railways connecting with adjacent towns, and by Delaware river steamboats on Cohansey creek, which is navigable to this point . It is an attractive residential city, has a park of 65o acres and a fine public library, and is the seat of West jersey academy and of Ivy Hall, a school for girls . It is an important market town and distributing centre for a rich agricultural region; among its manufactures are glass (the product, chiefly glass bottles, being valued in 1905 at $1,252,795—42.3% of the value of all the city's factory products—and Bridgeton ranking eighth among the cities of the United States in this industry), machinery, clothing, and canned fruits and vegetables; it also has dyeing and finishing works . Though Bridgeton is a port of entry, its foreign commerce is relatively unimportant . The first settlement in what is now Bridgeton was made toward the close of the 18th century . A pioneer iron-works was established here in 1814 . The city of Bridgeton, formed by the union of the township of Bridgeton and the township of Cohansey (incorporated in 1845 and 1848 respectively), was chartered in 1864 .