Talk:Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Tip: Anchors are case-sensitive in most browsers.

This article links to one or more target anchors that no longer exist.

[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census#Race|other races]] Anchor Race and ethnicity in the United States census#Race links to a specific web page: Race (human categorization). The anchor (#Race) has been deleted.

Please help fix the broken anchors. You can remove this template after fixing the problems. | Reporting errors

Bethel Indian Town and Monroe Twp High School[edit]

There has been a controversy in Monroe Township lately about a historic site called Bethel Indian Town, which housed Lenape people, and a proposal to relocate the Monroe Township High School to Thompson Park, which is across the street from the high school. The problem is that nobody knows exactly where Bethel Indian Town was located. Some have said that it was on the high school's proposed site; others disagree and say it was half-a-mile away. There was an archaeological excavation held to try to settle the matter. What it found was pits with animal bones and 18th century artifacts, most of them European in origin, at the proposed high school site. There were about eight or nine Native artifacts, suggesting that the Indian Town was probably elsewhere. A small chunk of the proposed high school site was deemed historic and it seems most of the site is probably kosher for building a new high school. (Sources: the East Brunswick (?) Sentinel, the Cranbury Press) 68.36.214.143 05:00, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hightstown rail accident[edit]

This train wreck of 1833, one of the first fatal ones in history, may have occurred on what is now the Cranbury-Monroe Township border, if we take John Quincy Adams' diary seriously. (He wrote that the wreck occurred some 3 miles before Hightstown. The train was going from northeast to southwest on what was then the Camden and Amboy RR. Measuring out 3 miles on Google Earth brings us to a spot somewhere between Cranbury Station Road and Cranbury Half Acre Road, a little to the north of Cranbury Station. Granted, I was measuring from the location of Hightstown Station in 1885-1890, when there were Sanborn maps made of Hightstown. Nonetheless, that station was close to where Hightstown would logically have arisen, if it developed around a mill at the foot of a mill-pond. The line is known to have been pretty straight from the beginning, due to survey reports from 1830 (published in 1891.) Thus, one might assume that the Right of Way has changed very little since 1833 (although pull-ups of the track make it necessary to follow roads such as Cranbury Station Road to determine much of the right-of-way). Combine that with the "3 miles", and you wind up with an accident site somewhere between Cranbury Station Road and Cranbury Half Acre Road, along the railroad line slicing through those two roads. — Rickyrab. ^{Yada yada yada} 03:17, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified (February 2018)[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 8 external links on Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 20:10, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]