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Two Colonial Colleges were founded in the Province. 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.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Ocean County, New Jersey. Latitude and longitude coordinates of the sites listed on this page may be displayed in an online map. [1] This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 26, 2024.
The history of what is now New Jersey begins at the end of the Younger Dryas, about 15,000 years ago. Native Americans moved into New town reversal of the Younger Dryas; before then an ice sheet hundreds of feet thick had made the area of northern New Jersey uninhabitable. European contact began with the exploration of the Jersey Shore by ...
Oldest house in Essex County. Original stone walls are visible within enveloping Queen Anne Victorian added in two stages in 1876 and prior to 1896. Nathaniel Bonnell House. Elizabeth. 1682 (1670) Oldest house in Elizabethtown, original capital of Province of New Jersey and oldest original building in Union County.
Jackson Township is a township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.A portion of the township is located within the New Jersey Pine Barrens. [19] [20] As of the 2020 United States Census, the township's population was 58,544, [9] [10] an increase of 3,688 (+6.7%) from the 2010 census count of 54,856, [21] [22] which in turn reflected an increase of 12,040 (+28.1%) from the 42,816 ...
Designated NJRHP. June 25, 1982. The Cassville Crossroads Historic District is a historic district located in the community of Cassville, at the junction of CR 571 and CR 528, in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1982 for its significance in agriculture ...
This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey. There are more than 1,700 listed sites in New Jersey. Of these, 58 are further designated as National Historic Landmarks. All 21 counties in New Jersey have listings on the National Register. This National Park Service list is complete ...
The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, commonly called The Jerseys, 1777 map by William Faden. The Provincial Congress of New Jersey was a transitional governing body of the Province of New Jersey in the early part of the American Revolution. It first met in 1775 with representatives from all New Jersey's thirteen counties, to ...