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 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 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

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 Road: A Historic House

Quakertown United Methodist Church

Rake Factory Road

River Road

Spring Hill Road

William Case House





Student Essay Winners for the Year 2000 Contest





Our reasearch was collected from the following sources:

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.



 

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