Somerville, New Jersey

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The Borough of Somerville is the county seat of Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. Somerville has a population was 12,098 (2010) and has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.1 km²).

Somerville was established as a town on March 25, 1863, within a portion of Bridgewater Township and was separately incorporated as a borough on April 16, 1909.

Somerville was settled prior to the American Revolution by the Dutch who established their church near modern Somerville. A Dutch Reformed minister or Domine lived at the still standing Old Dutch Parsonage from about 1754. The early village consisted of a church, courthouse and a tavern built at a crossroads and remained a sparsely populated farming community until the arrival of the railroad in the 1840s and the development of water power along the Raritan River in the 1850s. Notable sites in Somerville include the white marble 1909 Somerville Court House, the colonial Wallace House (where George Washington spent a winter during the American Revolution) and the Old Dutch Parsonage where Rutgers University (then called Queens College) was founded.

Today Somerville's shopping district consists of boutiques, restaurants and professional offices, though in the mid-late 20th century one could still buy most anything downtown like main streets found in earlier times.


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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerville,_New_Jersey
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Coordinates:   40°34'7"N   74°36'26"W

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  • someone needs to edit this because it contains the entire finderne neighborhood of bridgewater which is not part of somerville
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