East Millstone, New Jersey
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| East Millstone Historic District | |
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| (U.S. National Register of Historic Places) | |
| Location: | East Millstone, New Jersey  United States |
| Added to NRHP: | 1983 |
| Reference #: | 83001613 |
East Millstone is an unincorporated area of Franklin Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It is a small rural borough that grew and prospered with a small industrial base in the 19th Century, centered around the Delaware and Raritan Canal at Amwell Road and the long-abandoned Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad that terminated in East Millstone.
The independent municipality of Millstone, New Jersey, which is not part of Franklin Township, is located across the Millstone River, which is directly west of the Delaware and Raritan Canal.
East Millstone maintains its rural character into the 21st Century, with a firehouse, a post office and just a handful of local businesses. The housing stock is also quite old, with no new development in the East Millstone section of Franklin Township in recent years.
[edit] History
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1900 | 447 |
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| 1910 | 356 | -20.4% | |
| 1920 | 427 | 19.9% | |
| source: [1] | |||
East Millstone existed as an independent municipality for over 75 years. It was incorporated as a town by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 18, 1873, from portions of Franklin Township, and survived on its own until December 31, 1949, when it was returned to Franklin Township.[2]
[edit] National Register of Historic Places
The East Millstone Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is district #83001613.
[edit] References
- ^ Wm. C. Hunt, Chief Statistician for Population. Fourteenth Census of The United States: 1920; Population: New Jersey; Number of inhabitants, by counties and minor civil divisions (ZIP). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
- ^ "The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 223.
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(County seat: Somerville) |
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| Boroughs | Bernardsville | Bound Brook | Far Hills | Manville | Millstone | North Plainfield | Peapack-Gladstone | Raritan | Rocky Hill | Somerville | South Bound Brook | Watchung |  |
| Townships | Bedminster | Bernards | Branchburg | Bridgewater | Franklin | Green Brook | Hillsborough | Montgomery | Warren | |
| Communities | Basking Ridge | Belle Mead | Blackwells Mills | Blawenburg | East Millstone | Flagtown | Griggstown | Harlingen | Lamington | Martinsville | Middlebush | Neshanic | North Branch | Pleasant Plains | Six Mile Run | Somerset | South Branch | Zarephath | |
| Historic houses | Meadows Foundation | Old Dutch Parsonage | Wallace House | |
