We visited yesterday Finn’s Point National Cemetery and Fort Mott State Park. These are adjacent areas near Pennsville and Salem, New Jersey, and due south of Wilmington, Delaware. They are along the east bank of the Delaware river. Fort Mott is a popular spot from which to ferry to Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch Island.
There is another adjacent piece of land of perhaps 2 square miles along the east bank of the river there that is part of Delaware, and we drove around it and looked at aerials on Google. It seems undeveloped except for some dirt roads and a large high tension line crossing the river. There were dozens of cars parked along one of the dirt roads, mostly from Virginia, with no people in sight. It left us curious about this place. Does it have a name? How does it happen to be cut off from the rest of Delaware? Is it in practice administrated by New Jersey authorities, for example for police activity? What do people do there? Why are there so many Virginia cars parked there, and where are their drivers?
There is another cut-off bit of Delaware a bit south, much smaller, and maybe other little scraps. I guess they’re all a little mysterious.