Bordentown, New Jersey
Bordentown, New Jersey The City of Bordentown highlighted in Burlington County.
Inset map: Burlington County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
The City of Bordentown highlighted in Burlington County.
Inset map: Burlington County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Bordentown, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Bordentown, New Jersey State New Jersey Bordentown is a town/city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's populace was 3,924. The populace declined by 45 (-1.1%) from the 3,969 counted in the 2000 U.S.
Bordentown was originally incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on December 9, 1825, from portions inside Chesterfield Township.
Joseph Borden, for whom the town/city is named, appeared in 1717, and by May 1740 established a transit fitness to carry citizens and freight between New York City and Philadelphia.
This exploited Bordentown's natural locale as the point on the Delaware River that provided the shortest overland route to Perth Amboy, from which cargo and citizens could be ferried to New York City. Other notable citizens who have lived in the town/city include Clara Barton, who in 1852 started the first no-charge enhance school in New Jersey and later established the American Red Cross. A recreation of her schoolhouse stands at the corner of Crosswicks and Burlington streets. The school, which was known as the Bordentown School, came to have a 400-acre (1.6 km2), 30-building ground with two farms, a vocational/ technical orientation, and a college preliminary program. The Order of Poor Clares moved to a new facility outside Bordentown City. The City of Bordentown is surrounded on three sides by Bordentown Township and on the side by the juncture of the Delaware River and Crosswicks Creek, which is the border with Hamilton Township in Mercer County. It is bounded on the east by U.S.
The Bordentown City Environmental Commission (BCEC) is a volunteer group of Bordentown City residents.
The New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission operates two juvenile detention centers in the Johnstone Campus in Bordentown: Johnstone Campus Juvenile Female Secure Care and Intake Facility, which homes the state's adjudicated girls, and Juvenile Medium Security Facility-North Compound (JMSF-N) and the Juvenile Medium Security Facility-South Compound (JMSF-S) for boys. Bordentown City is positioned in the 3rd Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 7th state legislative district. Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Bordentown City had been in the 30th state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, Bordentown City had been part of the 4th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections. New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District is represented by Tom Mac - Arthur (R, Toms River). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Public school students in Kindergarten through twelfth grades attend the schools of the Bordentown Regional School District, which serves students from Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough. As of the 2013-14 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 2,560 students and 189.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 13.5:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2013-14 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Clara Barton Elementary School (252 students; grades K-3), Peter Muschal Elementary School (602; Pre - K-3), Mac - Farland Intermediate School (405; 4-5), Bordentown Regional Middle School (563; 6-8) and Bordentown Regional High School (738; 9-12). The New Hanover Township School District, consisting of New Hanover Township (including its Cookstown area) and Wrightstown Borough, sends students to Bordentown Regional High School on a tuition basis for ninth through twelfth grades as part of a sending/receiving relationship that has been in place since the 1960s, with about 50 students from the New Hanover precinct being sent to the high school. As of 2011, the New Hanover precinct was considering expansion of its relationship to send students to Bordentown for middle school for grades 6-8. Students from Bordentown, and from all of Burlington County, are eligible to attend the Burlington County Institute of Technology, a countywide enhance school precinct that serves the vocational and technical education needs of students at the high school and post-secondary level at its campuses in Medford and Westampton Township. Saint Mary School was a Catholic school serving students in Pre-K - 8, that directed for over 100 years under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton. The school closed its doors in June 2013 due to the school's financial challenges in the face of enrollment that was half of the 220 students needed to remain financially viable. The Bordentown Military Institute was positioned in the town/city from 1881 to 1972. The Society of the Divine Word fathers directed a minor seminary in Bordentown from 1947 to 1983. One of its more notable alumni Douglas Palmer was the four-term mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, leaving office in 2009. As of May 2010, the town/city had a total of 12.73 miles (20.49 km) of roadways, of which 10.09 miles (16.24 km) were maintained by the municipality, 2.25 miles (3.62 km) by Burlington County and 0.39 miles (0.63 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Route 206 run through very briefly and intersect at County Route 528 in the city. The New Jersey Turnpike is outside in neighboring Bordentown Township with access at Interchange 7 to U.S.
Bordentown City's one square mile is home to more than 10 homes of worship, including: American Presbyterian Church, B'nai Abraham Synagogue, Christ Episcopal Church, Dorothea Dix Unitarian Universalist Community, Ebenezer Full Gospel Community Church, First Baptist Church of Bordentown, First Presbyterian Church, Mount Zion AME Church, Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Shiloh Baptist Church, Trinity United Methodist Church and Union Baptist Church. See also: Category:People from Bordentown, New Jersey.
Clara Barton (1821 1912), in 1852 started the first no-charge enhance school in New Jersey and later established the American Red Cross. Herb Conaway (born 1963), member of the New Jersey General Assembly who has represented the 7th Legislative District since 1988. Forker (1821 1900), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional precinct in the United States House of Representatives from 1871-1873. Malone (born 1949), former member of the New Jersey General Assembly who is serving as Bordentown's mayor. Charles Stewart (1778 1869), United States Navy admiral, resided in Bordentown at the time of his death in 1869. a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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He started a packet line from Philadelphia to Bordentown, where travelers would stop to rest and then proceed on Borden's stage line to Perth Amboy, where they would make their connections to New York." "At Burlington and Crosswicks Streets in Bordentown is a one-room brick schoolhouse, believed to be the first enhance school in the county, which Barton, then 30, started in 1852 as part of her goal to overcome a bias in the improve against 'pauper schools.'" A View of the Deleware from Bordentown Hill by Charles B.
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"Bordentown Regional School District is a vibrant learning community, proudly serving the communities of Fieldsboro, Bordentown City and Bordentown Township....
In addition to the three aforementioned communities, Bordentown Regional High School also welcomes students from New Hanover into its ninth-twelfth undertaking population." "BORDENTOWN REGIONAL - Serves: Bordentown City, Bordentown Township, Fieldsboro, New Hanover" District knowledge for Bordentown Regional, National Center for Education Statistics.
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"Study on Behalf of the New Hanover School District on the Feasibility of Extending the District's Send/Receive Relationship to Include Students in Grades 6 8, The Educational Information and Resource Center, November 2011.
"The New Hanover Township School District has participated in a send/receive relationship with the Bordentown Regional District since approximately 1960.
Each year 45-55 New Hanover School District students attend Bordentown Regional High School." "New Hanover School to decide on middle school proposal", Burlington County Times, March 11, 2011.
"NEW HANOVER The township's school precinct will decide on Wednesday whether to enter an agreement with the Bordentown Regional School District for a send-receive agreement for middle school children.
The precinct which serves New Hanover and Wrightstown, already sends its high school students to Bordentown Regional High School and precinct officials are trying to determine whether sending sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to Bordentown Regional Middle School would be a feasible idea." Why Choose BCIT?, Burlington County Institute of Technology.
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"A Roseland, New Jersey, native who lived in Bordentown, Borino-Quinn had no acting experience when she was hired for the show in 2000." TO LIE IN BORDENTOWN Special Car Will Carry the Body and Members of the Poet's Family to the Town of His Birth.", The New York Times, November 20, 1909.
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"He established the school in 1886 in his living room in New Brunswick and then moved it to Bordentown on the property of the family of Admiral Charles Stewart, the captain of the U.S.S.
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"Wright was born in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1756." "ONE OF the most eccentric and interesting characters in early American art was Patience Lovell, born in 1725 at Bordentown, New Jersey.
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