Each year the students in the fourth grade at Franklin Township School write about the most historic site in Franklin Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

These stories make up their collected research and opinions.

Click on a Historic Site to read the stories written by students:

 

The Basket Factory The Old Bodine Lumber Company Brass Ring Farm Capoolon Creek The Capoolon Trail The Cherryville General Store The Corner Stone House: Large Family 1150 Croton Road A House on Croton Road The Dog Town Tavern Factory Foundation Franklin Township School The Frazee Farm The Hackberry Tree Hiram Deat's Factory The Hoff Mills Inn Charles Hoff Jr. Grist Mill Hogback Road: A Historic Home Joe Ent Road Kings Mill Lower Kingtown Road The Little Red School House Locust Grove Cemetary The Lockatong Creek The Mayayelick Path: Route 579 The Nixon Graveyard Nixon Farm Road Oak Grove

Oak Grove Grange Oak Grove Mill Oak Grove Road The Old Tinnes Farm Peaceful Valley Orchards Perricones Market Pittstown Pittstown Branch Roailroad The Pittstown Peach Exchange The Pittstown Post Office The Pittstown Railroad Station The Pittstown School Quaker Friends Meeting House Cemetery Quaker Friends Meeting House Quakertown Quakertown Academy Quakertown Fire Company Quakertown Recreation Club Quakertown Road: A Historic House The Quakertown Store Quakertown United Methodist Church Rake Factory Road River Road Spring Hill Road Stone Barn Road The Tinnes Farm William Case House

Our reasearch was collected from the following sources:

Print Material:

Franklin Township Tercentenary Celebration booklet, October 1964. Compiled by J. E. Stout.
Menu, Hoff’s Mill Inn, 1992.

Facts and Fantasies of Franklin, published by the Franklin Township Committee, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 1995. Compiled and Written by J. E. Stout.

The Area Guide Book To Historic Bucks and Hunterdon Counties, published by Enandem Graphics, Inc., Lambertville, New Jersey, 1990-1991.

“Pittstown Historic District Proposal Research” packet, prepared by Ursula C. Brecknell, Consultant, Historic House Surveys, Belle Mead, New Jersey, 1989.

“A Brief History of the Friends Meeting at Quakertown, N.J.: From 1729 to 1976”, J.E. Stout, 1976.

Hunterdon’s Role in The Revolution. Hunterdon County Democrat, July 22, 1976, pp. 14-15.

Stem, W.R., The First 250 Years of Hunterdon County. pp. 60-62.

Wacker, P.O., The Musconetcong Valley of New Jersey. pp. 26, 27, 37, 39, 40, 45, 137.

Websites:

http://www.enter.net/~lvrr/

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Raildata.railfan.net/lv/lvpctt.html

www.ftschool.org/fourth/historic.franklintwp/index.html

www.ftschool.org/ft_history.html

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