Current and historic endpoints of US highway 130 in Deepwater NJ

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Photo credits: Carter Buchanan; Chris Elbert; Christopher Mason; Alex Nitzman
Additional research: Dan Moraseski

In 1938, US 130 was extended south (from Camden) to Deepwater NJ. Until the Delaware Memorial Bridge was built, US 40 was routed through Pennsville - from there, travelers took a ferry across the Delaware River to New Castle DE. Since US 40 had apparently used this ferry since 1929 (see this page), US 130 would have ended just south of its current terminus, at the connection to Hook Road (US 40 came north from the ferry on current NJ 49, east to Hook Road, then north on Pennsville-Auburn Road to Danceys Corner, where it joined the pre-1929 alignment (now NJ 48). In 1951 the Delaware Memorial Bridge opened, so the south end of US 130 was truncated a very short distance to its current terminus. The series of photos below show both of these endpoints; this first one is heading west on southbound I-295...

Buchanan/Nitzman, Oct. 2004

...and here's a shot from the opposite direction:

Nitzman, Apr. 2004

US 130 traffic goes under the bridge, exits right, loops around, and heads to the left on the overpass. The scene below is approaching that overpass from the south, via NJ 49:

Elbert, July 2006

That used to be eastbound US 40, which continued to the right via Hook Rd. Straight ahead was the south beginning of US 130. Just a bit further that direction, we reach the I-295 overpass, and the current south beginning of US 130:

Mason

The opposite side of that overhead sign is shown in the photo below, which is looking at the south end of US 130:

Elbert, July 2006

Straight ahead is now designated NJ hwy. 49 - but as I've said, the US 130 designation used to continue that way a bit further south, where the photo below was taken:

Elbert, July 2006

Eastbound US 40 is to the left on Hook Rd. Before the Bridge was built, westbound US 40 went straight ahead, all the way to the ferry at Pennsville, so US 130 ended at the traffic signal in the background.