text: new jersey route 44 route 44 is a state highway located in gloucester county in the u.s. state of new jersey . it runs 10 . 28 mi ( 16 . 54 km ) from barker avenue in bridgeport to a cul - de - sac at a ramp from southbound interstate 295 ( i - 295 ) and u.s. route 130 ( us 130 ) in thorofare . the route , which is mostly a two - lane undivided road , passes through the communities of and paulsboro in the northern part of the county , a short distance south of the delaware river . route 44 generally runs a short distance to the north of i - 295 / us 130 for much of its length . in 1923 , route 17s was legislated along the current route followed by route 44 today , running between penns grove and westville . the only portion of route 17s ever built ran from penns grove to salem . route 44 was designated in 1927 to replace route 17s between penns grove and westville . by the 1940s , route 44 was extended south to salem and us 130 was designated concurrent with the route north of penns grove . several spurs of route 44 had existed or were planned prior to 1953 , including route s44 , which ran concurrent with us 322 to the ferry between bridgeport and chester , pennsylvania ; route , a never - built bypass of camden ; and route , which was to run from a tunnel under the delaware river in paulsboro east to route 42 . in 1953 , route 44 was replaced by us 130 north of deepwater and by route 49 south of there . after two bypasses were built for us 130 around carneys point and between bridgeport and westville , route 44 was redesignated along the former us 130 . after i - 295 was completed in the 1960s , us 130 returned to its original alignment in carneys point and replaced that portion of route 44 . route description route 44 begins at an intersection with barker avenue and main street in logan township , heading to the east on crown point road , a two - lane undivided road . shortly after beginning , the route heads through wooded areas a short distance to the north of conrail 's penns grove secondary and intersects county route ( cr ) 671 . the road turns northeast and comes to an interchange with us 130 and continues closely parallel to the railroad line as it passes through more rural areas with some homes , coming to a junction with cr 684 . route 44 enters greenwich township upon crossing the marshy creek and becomes a local road called west broad street . the route passes over the railroad tracks and continues east into residential and commercial areas of , intersecting cr 607 / cr 673 and cr 680 within the town . at the intersection with cr 653 , route 44 enters paulsboro and passes more developed areas , soon meeting cr 678 . the route intersects cr 667 in the center of paulsboro before crossing the mantua creek on a lift bridge and entering wetlands within west deptford township . here , the road heads into a mix of rural lands and development , crossing cr 656 and the little mantua creek . route 44 intersects the mid - atlantic parkway , which provides access to i - 295 and us 130 a short distance to the south , before continuing into inhabited areas . here , the road crosses the conrail line and cr 643 . the route becomes a four - lane road and has access ramps to and from southbound i - 295 / us 130 prior to coming to a crossroads with cr 640 in thorofare . past cr 640 , the route closely parallels i - 295 / us 130 and crosses woodbury creek . route 44 passes a mobile home park before coming to an end at cul - de - sac that has an access ramp to southbound route 44 from southbound i - 295 / us 130 . history what is now route 44 was originally legislated as route 17s in 1923 , a route that was to run from penns grove to westville . by 1927 , however , the only portion of route 17s that had existed was a road that ran from penns grove south to salem . in the 1927 new jersey state highway renumbering that occurred that year , route 44 was designated to run from penns grove to westville , replacing what had been legislated as route 17s . by the end of the 1930s , route 44 was extended south from penns grove to salem and us 130 was also designated along with route 44 north of penns grove by 1941 . prior to 1953 , several spurs of route 44 existed or were planned . route s44 was designated in 1939 as a connection from route 44 in bridgeport to the ferry across the delaware river to chester , pennsylvania , and was concurrent with us 322 . the s44 designation was removed in 1953 to avoid the concurrency with us 322 . in 1974 , the commodore barry bridge was built , bypassing the ferry , and the old alignment of us 322 became route 324 . route was planned in 1938 as an eastern bypass of camden from route 45 in brooklawn to route 40 ( now route 70 ) and route 41 in delaware township ( now cherry hill ) , mostly along what is now cr 551 . the bypass was never built , although part of what would have been the bypass north of haddonfield is now route 41 . route was planned in 1938 as an approach to a never - built tunnel under the delaware river near paulsboro . originally , the route was to run from the tunnel east to the intersection of route 41 and route 47 in deptford township . in 1939 , the planned route was extended east to route 42 between blackwood and williamstown . in the 1953 new jersey state highway renumbering , route 44 was replaced by us 130 north of the delaware memorial bridge approach in deepwater and by route 49 south of there . however , us 130 was moved to new freeway alignments around carneys point and between bridgeport and westville . the bypassed alignments of us 130 , originally unnumbered , eventually became route 44 . after i - 295 was built in the 1960s , it bypassed the portion of the us 130 freeway in bridgeport and was designated along the us 130 freeway north to westville and around carneys point . us 130 was moved back onto its old alignment in carneys point , replacing that portion of route 44 . major intersections the entire route is in gloucester county .