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In 1746, The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) was founded in Elizabethtown by a group of Great Awakening "New Lighters" that included Jonathan Dickinson, Aaron Burr Sr. and Peter Van Brugh Livingston. In 1756, the school moved to Princeton.
[4] [5] In the 1740s and 1750s, Scottish settlers from Elizabethtown and Perth Amboy, and English settlers from these cities, Long Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, came to New Jersey and moved up the tributaries of the Passaic and Raritan rivers. Some settled in the eastern sections of present-day Sussex and Warren counties.
East of Jersey: A History of the General Board of Proprietors for the Eastern Division of New Jersey. (Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Historical Society, 1995). McConville, Brendan. These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999). McCreary, John Roger.
Ewing Township, New Jersey: 1717-1830 Residence (abandoned) On grounds of The College of New Jersey: William Trent House: Trenton: 1719 Residence Oldest house in Trenton, the state capitol, and served unofficially as governor's residence Martin Berry House: Pequannock Township: 1720 Residence
The first early college in the United States, Bard College at Simon's Rock, was founded in 1966. [2] In 1974, Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College opened, serving high school students who were below grade level in reading or math. [3] Over 25 middle colleges were established in the next two decades.
The program was later expanded to include the NJ STARS II program. Any student who receives scholarship aid in the NJ STARS program at a county college can receive aid at a New Jersey 4-year college after graduation from the county college. The NJ STARS II program provides full tuition for the student at participating New Jersey colleges.
Belmont High School: Belmont: 7–12 Coeducational 1955 1200 website: Geelong High School: Geelong: 7–12 Coeducational 1915 900 website: Grovedale College: Grovedale: 7–12 Coeducational 1979 700 website: Lara Secondary College: Lara: 7–12 Coeducational Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College: Geelong: 7–12 Girls only 1858 1000 website ...
Newton Colony was founded in 1682 by a group of Quakers, who had emigrated from Ireland, on the banks of Newton Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, in present-day Camden County, New Jersey. [1] The founders of Newton Colony were William Bates , George Goldsmith, Mark Newbie, Thomas Sharp, Thomas Thackara and Robert Zane. [ 1 ]