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It is believed that the end of the last ice age, approximately 6000 years ago, the Narrows had not yet been formed and the Hudson River flowed along the Watchungs and out to the ocean through the current course of the Raritan.

1 Towns on the Raritan

• New Brunswick
• Highland Park
• East Brunswick
• Piscataway
• Perth Amboy

2 Sports on the Raritan River

• The Raritan river hosts the Rutgers University Rowing Team.

3 Raritan River in Song

• Rutgers University's "On the Banks of the Old Raritan."

4 Raritan River on Stage

• The musical 1776 mentions troops bathing in the Raritan River.

5 See also

• List of New Jersey riversThis is a list of rivers in New Jersey in the United States . Alloway Creek Arthur Kill (tidal strait) Bass River Big Flat Brook Black River Cohansey Creek Cooper River Crosswicks Creek Delaware River Elizabeth River First River (a. Mill Brook) Great Egg
• Delaware RiverThe Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It meets tide-water at Trenton, New Jersey. Its total length, from the head of the longest branch to the capes, is 410 miles (660 km), and above the head of the bay its length is 36
• LenapeThe Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the De
• Delaware & Raritan CanalThe Delaware & Raritan Canal also known as the D&R Canal was a canal in central New Jersey that served to connect the Delaware River to the Raritan River. It was intended as an efficient and reliable means of transportion of freight between Philadelphia a