Ewing Township, New Jersey Ewing Township, New Jersey Official seal of Ewing Township, New Jersey Location in Mercer County and the state of New Jersey.
Location in Mercer County and the state of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Ewing Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Ewing Township, New Jersey State New Jersey Ewing Township is a township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.
The township is inside the New York urbane region as defined by the United States Enumeration Bureau. It also directly borders the Philadelphia urbane region and is part of the Federal Communications Commission's Philadelphia Designated Market Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's populace was 35,790, reflecting an increase of 83 (+0.2%) from the 35,707 counted in the 2000 Census, which had increased by 1,522 (+4.5%) from the 34,185 counted in the 1990 Census. The earliest inhabitants of present-day Ewing Township in the historic era were Lenni Lenape Native Americans, who lived along the banks of the Delaware River.
The region that is now Ewing Township was part of Hopewell Township in what was a very large Burlington County at the beginning of the 18th century.
In 1714 Hopewell was removed from Burlington County and added to Hunterdon County. By 1719, the region which was to turn into Ewing Township had been removed from Hopewell Township and added to the newly created Trenton Township. Portions of Trenton Township were incorporated as Ewing Township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 22, 1834, posthumously honoring Charles Ewing for his work as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. The township became part of the newly created Mercer County on February 22, 1838.
After incorporation, Ewing Township received additional territory taken from Lawrence Township and the town/city of Trenton in 1858.
When Ewing Township was incorporated in the 19th century, it was primarily farmland with a handful of scattered hamlets, including Carleton (now known as Ewing), Cross Keys (now known as Ewingville), Birmingham (now known as West Trenton) and Greensburg (now known as Wilburtha). Since the beginning of the 20th century, the township has advanced as a suburb of Trenton.
Ewing Township today is the locale of The College of New Jersey, the Community Blood Council of New Jersey, New Jersey State Police headquarters, the Jones Farm State Correction Institute, the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, the New Jersey Department of Transportation headquarters, the Katzenbach School for the Deaf and Trenton-Mercer Airport.
From 1953 until 1997 Ewing was the home of Naval Air Warfare Center Trenton, encompassing 528 acres (214 ha) on Parkway Avenue. It was used as a jet engine test facility for the US Navy until its closure based on the recommendations of the 1993 Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Nearly 700 civilian positions were eliminated, most of which were relocated to other facilities in Maryland and Tennessee. The base's Marine operations were transferred to Fort Dix, which has since turn into Joint Base Mc - Guire-Dix-Lakehurst. A charity to end homelessness acquired the base at no cost in October 2013 in a process involving the United States Department of Defense, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mercer County and Ewing Township. The first locale of an industrialized robot used to replace human workers was at Ewing's Inland Fisher Guide Plant in 1961, a facility that directed in the township for 1938 to 1998, after which the plant was completed and targeted for redevelopment. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the township has a total region of 15.599 square miles (40.400 km2), including 15.250 square miles (39.497 km2) of territory and 0.349 square miles (0.903 km2) of water (2.23%). The Delaware River forms the border of Ewing Township The highest altitude in Ewing Township is 225 feet (69 m) AMSL just east of Interstate 95 and just west of Trenton-Mercer Airport, while the lowest point is just below 20 feet (6.1 m) AMSL along the Delaware River near the border with Trenton. The 11-acre (4.5 ha) lake is positioned on the ground of The College of New Jersey. Water courses in Ewing include the Delaware River along its boundary and the Shabakunk Creek in the easterly and central portions of the township.
These include Agasote, Altura, Arbor Walk, Braeburn Heights, Briarcrest, Briarwood, Cambridge Hall, Churchill Green, Delaware Rise, Ewing, Ewing Park, Ewingville, Fernwood, Ferry Road Manor, Fleetwood Village, Glendale, Green Curve Heights, Hampton Hills, Heath Manor, Hickory Hill Estates, Hillwood Lakes, Hillwood Manor, Mountainview, Parkway Village, Prospect Heights, Prospect Park, Scudders Falls, Shabakunk Hills, Sherbrooke Manor, Somerset, Spring Meadows, Spring Valley, Village on the Green, Weber Park, West Trenton, Whitewood Estates, Wilburtha and Wynnewood Manor. Some of these existed before suburbanization, while the rest came into existence with the suburban evolution of the township in the 20th century.
Map of neighborhoods in Ewing Township, New Jersey.
Ewing Township As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 35,790 citizens , 13,171 homeholds, and 7,982 families residing in the township.
Ewing Township is governed under the Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, inside Mayor-Council plan 2 form of New Jersey municipal government, as implemented as of January 1, 1995, based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission. The Governing Body of the township consists of five Council members and a Mayor, all of whom are propel by the voters of the community.
As of 2016, the Mayor of Ewing Township is Democrat Bert H.
Steinmann, whose term of office ends December 31, 2018. Members of the Ewing Township Council are Council President David P.
Ewing Township is positioned in the 12th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 15th state legislative district. New Jersey's Twelfth Congressional District is represented by Bonnie Watson Coleman (D, Ewing Township). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 21,714 registered voters in Ewing Township, of which 9,358 (43.1%) were registered as Democrats, 3,256 (15.0%) were registered as Republicans and 9,087 (41.8%) were registered as Unaffiliated.
In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 73.0% of the vote (11,910 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 25.8% (4,218 votes), and other candidates with 1.2% (190 votes), among the 17,947 ballots cast by the township's 23,230 registered voters (1,629 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 77.3%. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 70.0% of the vote (11,911 cast), ahead of Republican John Mc - Cain with 28.1% (4,787 votes) and other candidates with 1.2% (200 votes), among the 17,021 ballots cast by the township's 22,913 registered voters, for a turnout of 74.3%. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 62.0% of the vote (10,091 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W.
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Democrat Barbara Buono received 53.7% of the vote (5,279 cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 44.7% (4,395 votes), and other candidates with 1.7% (163 votes), among the 10,070 ballots cast by the township's 22,876 registered voters (233 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 44.0%. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 59.4% of the vote (6,529 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 34.1% (3,751 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 4.7% (520 votes) and other candidates with 0.7% (81 votes), among the 10,989 ballots cast by the township's 22,263 registered voters, yielding a 49.4% turnout. The Ewing Township Board of Education oversees the Ewing Public Schools.
Board of Education, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled for the first time that state and small-town government were subject to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, but that it had not been violated in this instance. The Ewing Public Education Foundation, established in 1995, is an autonomous, not-for-profit citizen's organization whose mission is to mobilize improve support, concern, commitment and resources to help advancement the character of education in Ewing Township.
EPEF provides grants to Ewing Township Schools for innovative educational programs through fund-raising activities, and corporate and institutional sponsorship.
Rubino Academy (formerly Mercer County Alternative High School) is one of Mercer County's only alternative schools, offering an alternative educational program for students who have struggled in the traditional school surrounding, featuring lesser classes, mentoring and counseling. Katzenbach ground of the New Jersey School for the Deaf serves 175 hearing-impaired students on a ground covering 148 acres (60 ha) that was opened in West Trenton in 1926. The school was established in Ewing through the accomplishments of Marie Hilson Katzenbach and was retitled in her honor in 1965. The Villa Victoria Academy is a private Catholic school in Ewing Township, christened as a private academy in 1933, and directed by the Religious Teachers Filippini.
The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) is positioned on a ground covering 289 acres (117 ha) inside the township. As of May 2010, the township had a total of 149.74 miles (240.98 km) of roadways, of which 108.73 miles (174.98 km) were maintained by the municipality, 28.16 miles (45.32 km) by Mercer County, 12.65 miles (20.36 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation, which also has its command posts in Ewing, and 0.20 miles (0.32 km) by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission. 1 or Interstate 195 and the New Jersey Turnpike to reach the next primary destination northwards, New York City.
The Ewing portion of Interstate 95 will eventually be redesignated as Interstate 295 when a direct interchange between Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Turnpike is completed, re-routing Interstate 95 onto the New Jersey Turnpike at Exit 6 (in Mansfield Township).
NJ Transit has proposed a new West Trenton Line of its own, that would stretch for 27 miles (43 km) from the West Trenton Station to a connection with the Raritan Valley Line at Bridgewater Township, and from there to Newark Penn Station in Newark. Ewing Township is the site of the Trenton-Mercer Airport (TTN), which first opened in 1929 and is one of three commercial airports in the state.
Ewing Township is also traversed by the Delaware and Raritan Canal near the Delaware River.
Delaware and Raritan Canal - Runs along the easterly bank of the Delaware River in Ewing Township.
This led to a prosperous surprise attack on the Hessian troops occupying Trenton, New Jersey.
Victory trail begins in close-by Washington Crossing State Park, enters Ewing Township at Jacobs Creek Road (where George Washington's and his horse almost fell into the creek) and continues along Bear Tavern Road.
Ewing Presbyterian Church is an historic building dated 1867 and set inside the American Revolution era Ewing Church Cemetery.
See also: Category:People from Ewing Township, New Jersey.
People who were born in, inhabitants of, or otherwise closely associated with Ewing Township include: Bonnie Watson Coleman (born 1945), politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 1998, where she represents the 15th Legislative District. Lanning (1849-1912), Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional precinct in the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1904. Rieth, former Adjutant General of New Jersey (2002-2011). a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"Hopewell township: From Burlington Court records, February 20, 1699/1700: The Hopewell township boundaries were "To begin at Mahlon Stacyes Mill [at what is now Trenton] And so along by York:road, until it comes to Shabbucunck, and up the same until it meet with the line of Partition that divides the Societies 30000 acres Purchase from the 15000 and then along the line of said Societies 30000 acres Purchase to Delaware River." The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969.
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"In the early years of settlement, Ewing was chiefly a woodland area; however, after the Revolution, Ewing embarked upon a long reconstructionof agricultural expansion and activity.
In 1844, historians Barber and Howe described the Township as having some of the richest soil in New Jersey.
Early evolution was in the form of small hamlets scattered throughout the Township, including Birmingham (now known as West Trenton), Ewing, Ewingville, and Greensburg (now Wilburtha)." a b Former Naval Air Warfare Center Trenton, United States Navy.
"The former Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Trenton is positioned in Ewing Township, New Jersey." "Without any fanfare, the world's first working robot joined the assembly line at the General Motors plant in Ewing Township in the spring of 1961." Famous Firsts in New Jersey, State of New Jersey.
"The first robot to replace a human worker was used by General Motors in Ewing Township in 1961." "Environmental Resource Inventory for the Township of Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey" (PDF).
There are two primary lakes in Ewing Township: Lake Ceva and Lake Sylva.
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Even with the early evolution of the streetcar suburbs, Ewing interval slowly in the first quarter of the 20th century: by 1920 the populace of the Township stood at 3500.
The region remained dominantly non-urban in nature until just before to World War II, when new industries would begin a long reconstructionof expansion and evolution for the Township.
"Ferry Road Manor, New Jersey" (Map).
After World War II Ewing Township interval rapidly, reflected by the assembly of a range of housing, including Parkway Village, Moss Homes, Wynnwood Manor and Fleetwood Village.
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The New Jersey State Teacher College moved out of Trenton and into the ground of red-brick halls in the Hillwood Lakes section of Ewing.
Later, the school would be retitled Trenton State College; In 1996, it became the College of New Jersey.
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The ground itself is a quiet oasis inside bustling Ewing Township, closed to outside traffic and encircled by Metzger Drive, a two-mile loop prominent with joggers, walkers, and bikers.
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Many Trenton inhabitants identified the advantages of living in Ewing, and the Township began to change from an agricultural to a residentiary community.
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"Millennium Radio has titled its New Jersey 101.5 - FM studio and office building in Ewing the 'Jim Gearhart Broadcasting Center.'" "Bonnie and her husband William reside in Ewing Township and are blessed to have three sons; William, Troy, and Jared and two grandchildren; William and Kamryn." "One moment, Ewing High grad Hollis Copeland was negotiating a new contract as a member of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association....
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