Lamberton was the name of a
port
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community on the
Delaware River
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in
Mercer County, in the
U.S. state
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of
New Jersey
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. It was annexed by the city of
Trenton as part of
South Trenton in 1856. It is now known simply as Waterfront.
Lamberton is often incorrectly attributed as the birthplace of
Zebulon Pike
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, for whom
Pikes Peak
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(in
Colorado
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) was named, though the explorer was born in another Lamberton, now known as
Lamington
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, in
Bedminster Township in
Somerset County.
[Backes, William J.]
"General Zebulon M. Pike, Somerset-Born" in ''Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Volume 8''
p. 245. Somerset Historical Publications, Reprint Publishers, 1919. Accessed January 17, 2015. "If one will pick up almost any encyclopedia or biography he will find it stated that General Pike was born at 'Lamberton, now part of Trenton, New Jersey, January 5, 1779.' But this name has been confused with his real birthplace, which was not at Lamberton in Mercer County, but at Lamberton (now Lamington) in Somerset County."
References
Trenton, New Jersey
Unincorporated communities in Mercer County, New Jersey
Unincorporated communities in New Jersey
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