Somerville, New Jersey

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Local Information for Somerville, NJ

Latitude: 40.570831 -- Longitude: -74.605344

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Somerville was settled in colonial times primarily by the English, who gave it its English name. Somerville was originally a sparsely populated farming community, but rapidly grew after the completion of the railroad in the 1850s. Early industry included brick making from the plentiful red clay and shale on which Somerville is built. While much of the borough features distinctive Victorian architecture and row houses, historical structures include the white marble Somerville Court House and the wooden and stone colonial Wallace House (today a museum) where George Washington spent a winter during the American Revolutionary War. Near the Wallace House is the Old Dutch Parsonage, where Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, a founder of Rutgers University, lived. -- Source: Wikipedia.com