West Park, NJ

West Park is a Cumberland County census-designated place in Hopewell Township, northwest of Bridgeton. New Jersey Route 49 runs through the community, while the township's older map reaches back to 1748 and includes places such as Roadstown, Bowentown, and Old Cohansey. Cumberland County's early settlement also carries Lenni Lenape, Swedish, Quaker, Baptist, and Presbyterian threads. West Park is a South Jersey place whose introduction is a road, a township border, and several older names still attached to the surrounding landscape.