New Brunswick

Identifier
NJS-PLC-00016
Place Type
City, Town, or Village
Description
New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, and it serves as the county seat. The City of New Brunswick is the original location of Queen's College, which was chartered in 1766 and renamed Rutgers in 1825. Today, New Brunswick is home to the largest campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

The city was formed by royal charter in 1730. From its founding up until the 1850s, the city straddled the border between Somerset County and Middlesex County, and portions of the city were considered to be in different townships and in different counties. The county border ran down the road known today as Albany Street in New Brunswick. The area around present-day College Avenue was considered to be in Somerset County (in Franklin Township), and some documents related to slavery in this area will be found among Somerset County records. The area of the city that was in Middlesex County (including downtown and the present-day Douglass Campus of Rutgers University) was considered to be part of North Brunswick Township, and early 19th-century records often refer to this area as "the City of New Brunswick in the Township of North Brunswick."
Locality
New Brunswick
County (Modern)
Middlesex County
County (Historical)
Middlesex County
Somerset County
State or Province
New Jersey
Country
United States of America
Latitude
40.496715
Longitude
-74.444271
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
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