Port Elizabeth, NJ

Port Elizabeth is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Maurice River Township in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The 2020 census counted 290 residents. Route 47 and Route 55 intersect in Port Elizabeth. Port Elizabeth, named for Elizabeth Clark Bodly, a Quaker and owner of lands on which Port Elizabeth lays, was laid out in 1785. The short version is that Port Elizabeth carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Port Elizabeth: its past remains attached to the places people use now. In 1778, a dam was built on the Manumuskin River, drying out valuable lands for farmers, who flocked in.