[2] The creek starts in the Pine Barrens of Brendan T. Byrne State Forest and Fort Dix Military Reservation, near Browns Mills.
[2] From its confluence with Rancocas Creek, tidewater extends upstream to the upper end of Mount Holly.
Timber rafts were launched on the upper waters of the North Branch during the eighteenth century.
During this period, an attempt was made to render the creek navigable above Mount Holly by building a lock in the millrace below the dam, but it was never completed, and the remains were filled in in 1811 during the erection of a new sawmill.
Continued shoaling rendered it unsuitable for traffic, and an unfavorable report by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1910 on the value of dredging and maintaining a channel up to Mount Holly led to its abandonment for navigation.