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Assunpink Creek is a
tributary of the
Delaware River in western
New Jersey in the
United States.
Assunpink Creek (from the
Lenape Ahsën'pink, meaning "stony, watery place") is born in rural
Monmouth County, about a mile north of
Clarksburg. Flowing westwards, it soon enters the
Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, where it has been dammed to form Rising Sun Lake. After an unnamed tributary enters from the south, it enters another reservoir, Assunpink Lake. The two lakes, as well as Stone Tavern Lake on the tributary, are popular fishing spots.
Below Assunpink Lake, the creek flows under Old York Road and flows into
Mercer County.
New Sharon Branch enters the creek from the south at
Carsons Mills. The creek now turns northwest, passing under the
New Jersey Turnpike and then
U.S. Route 130, just southwest of
Windsor. Here it finally exits the Wildlife Management Area.
Still further northwest, the creek enters Central Mercer County Park.
Bridegroom Run enters from the north side as the creek turns west and is impounded to form Mercer County Lake. A small wildlife management area, the
Van Nest Refuge, lies along the stream just below the dam. It then passes under "Quaker Bridge" on Quaker Bridge Road and
Interstate 295 before turning southwest and paralleling the
Delaware and Raritan Canal. The creek now enters a heavily built-up area.
Miry Run enters near
Hutchinson Mills. The canalized stream flows past the
Trenton Rail Station and finally empties into the Delaware River in
Trenton.
In January 1777, during the
Second Battle of Trenton of the
American Revolutionary War, soldiers of the
Continental Army and supporting militias, under the direct command of General
George Washington, held a defensive line along the south shore of Assunpink Creek south of Trenton, stretching from the mouth of the creek up to Philip's Mill. The American soldiers successfully repelled several charges by British and Hessian soldiers across a stone bridge over the creek, and also repelled an attempt to ford the creek near its mouth.
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