East Millstone, New Jersey

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location = East Millstone, New Jersey USA
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East Millstone is an unincorporated area within Franklin Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It is a small rural community 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. East Millstone was an independent municipality from 1873-1949.

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.

History

USCensusPop
1900=447
1910=356
1920=427
footnote=source: [cite web
url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/41084506no553.zip
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title=Fourteenth Census of The United States: 1920; Population: New Jersey; Number of inhabitants, by counties and minor civil divisions
publisher=U.S. Census Bureau
accessdate=2007-03-21
author=Wm. C. Hunt, Chief Statistician for Population] 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."The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 223.]

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.

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