New Jersey State Highway 163 is a state highway in New Jersey, United States. Like many state highways, this highway was created when a United States highway was rerouted; the U.S. highway in this case was United States Highway 46 and this road is still known as "Old Route 46".
NJ 163 is unsigned and runs from an intersection with US 46 in Knowlton, New Jersey to a dead end next to a still-existing railroad bridge. Before December 1, 1953, US 46 used this road to get to Portland, Pennsylvania. A bridge over the Delaware River used to exist at the dead end before it washed away in a storm.
In the meantime, New York had numbered its State Routes, and the extension of NewJersey's Route 17 north and west to Westfield, New York was numbered Route 17.
NewJersey had not assigned a Route 17 in the 1927 renumbering, and so in March 1942, NewJersey's Route 2 was numbered Route 17 to match and provide a single number for military caravans during World War II.
It is bounded by Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and the Dominion of Canada on the north; by Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut on the east; by Pennsylvania, NewJersey, and the Atlantic Ocean on the south, and by Pennsylvania, Lake Erie, and the Niagara River on the west.
The ice-free and deep-channelled port of New York, lying at the mouth of the Hudson River, with its wide roadsteads and anchorages and vast transportation facilities is indeed the greatest property of the State of New York.
The population of the State of New York itself increased from 340,120 in 1790 to 1,918,608 in 1830.
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