History
- In 2011 Assunpink overflowed its banks in the heavy rains of Hurricane Irene, making the main rail line of the northeast corridor impassible and stopping rail traffic between New York and Philadelphia for several days even as rail traffic was resumed after the storm from New York heading north and from Philadelphia south.
- On January 2, 1777, during the Second Battle of Trenton of the American Revolutionary War, soldiers of the Continental Army and supporting militias, under the direct command of General George Washington, held a defensive line along the south shore of Assunpink Creek south of Trenton, stretching from the mouth of the creek up to Philip's Mill. The American soldiers successfully repelled several charges by British and Hessian soldiers across a stone bridge over the creek, and also repelled an attempt to ford the creek near its mouth.
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