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Nanticoke Tribal Headquarters

New Jersey officially recognizes the state’s Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation and its hometown in Bridgeton (86 miles from Princeton; first European settlement in 1686). (After a federal lawsuit on the part of the tribe, the state officially re-recognizes the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape as a tribe in 2018.) The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Office in Bridgeton has said there are more than 12,000 members of the Lenape Tribe in the surrounding region. Held until 2019, the annual two-day pow-wow hosts members of tribal nations across the United States and received about 10,000 spectators. Read more at the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape website.

Map of Bridgeton

Map of Bridgeton from 1886 produced by the Sanborn Map Company.Princeton University Library

Street map of Bridgeton

Different map of Bridgeton from 1886 produced by the Sanborn Map Company.Princeton University Library

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