Delaware River
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The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing river in the Eastern United States. From the meeting of its branches in Hancock, New
The Delaware River flowing through the Delaware Water Gap between Northampton County, Pennsylvania (left) and Warren County, New Jersey in (right)
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, the river's namesake
Lumberville Wing Dam
A 1655 Swedish nautical chart showing part of the Delaware River when the river was part of the Swedish colony New Sweden
Delaware Water Gap
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The Delaware Water Gap is a water gap on the border between the U.S. states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, southeast of Stroudsburg, where the Delaware River cuts through a large ridge of the Appalac
Delaware River
…in a bed of glacial till that buried the eroded bedrock during the last glacial period. It then skirts the Kittatinny ridge, which it crosses at the Delaware Water Gap, between nearly vertical walls of sandstone, quartzite, and conglomerate, and then passes through a quiet and charming country of farm and forest…
Delaware Water Gap viewed from Mount Tammany in New Jersey, with the Delaware River below and Interstate 80 visible at right.
Worthington State Forest seen from a campsite
The Delaware Water Gap with the Pennsylvania town of the same name visible in the lower left next to the I-80 crossing.