Talk:Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Bethel Indian Town and Monroe Twp High School
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)

Hightstown rail accident
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. &mdash; Rickyrab. Yada yada yada 03:17, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

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