Raw States

Swedesboro Day

Swedesboro, NJ · Festival

When

September 26, 2026

Where

Kings Highway, downtown Swedesboro · Swedesboro · NJ

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

This Gloucester County borough closes Kings Highway for a day of live music, a car show, food trucks and local vendors, opened by the Dragon Run 5K. It is the town's main annual street festival, run by local volunteers.

The history within reach

• The Commodore Barry Bridge, built for a highway that was never built6.3 mi

  This cantilever span opened in February 1974, carrying US 322 from Chester across the Delaware to Bridgeport, New Jersey.

• Subaru Park puts a Major League Soccer stadium on the Chester waterfront7.0 mi

  Delaware County put in thirty million dollars and the state another forty seven to drop a soccer specific stadium on the river beside the Commodore Barry Bridge, on ground that had been industrial waterfront.

• St. Martin's Church, on the Marcus Hook riverbank since 16997.1 mi

  Founded in 1699 and standing about five hundred feet from the Delaware, this is among the oldest riverfront churches in Pennsylvania and one of the few left.

• Chester lands the Ford Model A and builds cars for thirty four years7.2 mi

  Ford took over the old Roach shipyard site at Front and Lloyd and opened a fifty acre assembly plant in August 1927, starting with the Model A.

• William Penn comes ashore at Upland and renames it Chester7.3 mi

  Penn stepped off the ship Welcome here at the end of October 1682, at the only existing town in the province he had just been granted.