Hopewell (Mercer County)

Identifier
NJS-PLC-00064
Place Type
City, Town, or Village
Description
Hopewell is a historical community located in Mercer County, New Jersey. Prior to the creation of Mercer County in 1838, Hopewell was part of Hunterdon County. Consequently, records documenting slavery in the area typically refer to Hopewell, Hunterdon County.

Hopewell Township was established in 1700 during the colonial era. The historic center of the community was located around a meetinghouse known as the Old School Baptist Church. Another important settlement in the township was a village originally called Queenstown, which by the late 18th century was known as Pennington. In the 1890s, these two population centers broke off from the larger Hopewell Township and formed their own separate municipalities called Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough. Both of these small boroughs are completely surrounded by the larger Hopewell Township today. The distinction between Hopewell Township and Hopewell Borough did not exist during the slavery era.

Hopewell in Mercer County is not to be confused with the township of the same name that is located in Cumberland County in the southern part of New Jersey.
Locality
Hopewell
County (Modern)
Mercer County
County (Historical)
Hunterdon County
State or Province
New Jersey
Country
United States of America
Latitude
40.389888
Longitude
-74.759776
References

Blackwell, David. "Hopewell: 270 Years of History, 125 years as a Borough." Hopewell Museum. https://thehopewellmuseum.org/about-hopewell.

Ege, Ralph. Pioneers of Old Hopewell, with Sketches of Her Revolutionary Heroes. Hopewell, NJ: Race & Savidge, 1908. http://archive.org/details/pioneersoldhope00egegoog.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopewell,_New_Jersey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopewell_Township,_Mercer_County,_New_Jersey
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
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