| 词条 | Middlebrook, New Jersey | ||
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|name = Middlebrook, New Jersey |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |nickname = |motto = |image_skyline = West Main Street, Bound Brook, NJ - looking west.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = West Main Street and Vosseller Avenue, Middlebrook section of Bound Brook, site of the Middlebrook Hotel, in 2017 |image_flag = |image_seal = |pushpin_map = USA New Jersey Somerset County#USA New Jersey#USA |pushpin_label_position = left |pushpin_map_caption = |pushpin_mapsize = |image_map = |map_caption = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|United States}} |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = {{flag|New Jersey}} |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Somerset |subdivision_type3 = Borough |subdivision_name3 = Bound Brook |established_title = |established_date = |named_for = Middle Brook (Raritan River tributary) |coordinates = {{coord|40|33|36|N|74|32|24|W|region:US-NJ_type:city|display=inline,title}} }}Middlebrook is an unincorporated community within the borough of Bound Brook in Somerset County, New Jersey. It is named after the Middle Brook, a tributary of the Raritan River, on the western side of the community.[1][2] The early-18th-century Old York Road, connecting Philadelphia to New York City, passed through here.[3] HistoryOn May 4, 1681, a group of investors purchased from two Raritans, Konackama and Queromak, land bounded by the Raritan River, the Bound Brook, and the Middle Brook to the mountains for one hundred pounds, paid in goods.{{sfnp|Snell|1881|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AdMwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA559 p. 559]}} On September 25, 1683, Thomas Codrington, one of the original group, was apportioned 877 acres of this tract and built a house here, which he called Rackawackhana.{{sfnp|Snell|1881|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AdMwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA648 p. 648]|ps=: "The only one of the proprietors under the Indian grant who actually settled on any part of it was Thomas Codrington."}} After the Battle of Bound Brook on April 13, 1777, General George Washington moved the Continental Army from its winter encampment at Morristown to the Middle Brook valley between the First and Second Watchung Mountains, now called Washington Valley, protected by positions on the Middlebrook Heights[4], the First Watchung ridge north of Middlebrook. This first Middlebrook encampment lasted from May 28 to July 2, 1777.[5][6] Historic housesThe Harris Tavern, built 1700 at the intersection of West Main Street and Vosseller Avenue, was the first hotel in Bound Brook. During the American Revolutionary War, it was known as the Middlebrook Hotel and was a favorite of army officers.{{sfnp|Davis|1893|loc=[https://archive.org/stream/firsthousesofbou00davi#page/10/mode/2up pp. 10–11, 30–31]}} Later it was known as the Fisher Hotel.{{sfnp|Snell|1881|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AdMwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA650 p. 650]|ps=: "William Harris ... built the Middlebrook Hotel, now owned by the heirs of Issac J. Fisher"}} The building has since been demolished.[7] The Thomas Codrington house, built 1683 at the intersection of High Street and LaMonte Avenue, was the first house built in Somerset County.{{sfnp |Davis|1893|loc=[https://archive.org/stream/firsthousesofbou00davi#page/4/mode/2up pp. 4–6, 30–31]|ps=: "Codrington gave his place the Indian name Rackawachanna [sic] (the loomy flat by the running brook)."}} Notable peoplePeople who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Middlebrook include:
GalleryReferences1. ^{{cite web|last1=Washington|first1=George|author-link=George Washington|title=General Orders, 29 May 1777|url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-09-02-0547|publisher=Founders Online, National Archives|date=May 29, 1777|at=Note 1|quote=The villages of Middlebrook and Bound Brook adjoined one another on the north bank of the Raritan River … They are now part of the town of Bound Brook. }} 2. ^{{cite book|author=United States Army Corps of Engineers|title=Where the Green Brook Meets the Raritan|url=http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Portals/37/docs/civilworks/projects/nj/frm/GreenBrook/GreenBrookBooklet-English.pdf|year=2012 |page=10 |quote= the twin villages of Bound Brook and Middle Brook, both located on the north side of the Raritan River close to the two streams for which they were named}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Cawley|first1=James|last2=Cawley|first2=Margaret|title=Along the Old York Road|publisher=Rutgers University Press|location=New Brunswick, New Jersey|year=1965|oclc= 692143813 |isbn=978-0-813-50487-2|pages=47–48}} 4. ^{{cite gnis| 878107 |Middlebrook Heights|}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Middlebrook and the Defense of New Jersey|url=http://revolutionarynj.org/storylines/middlebrook-and-the-defense-of-new-jersey/|publisher=Crossroads of the American Revolution}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=T. E.|title=The Battle of Bound Brook|date=1895|publisher=Washington Campground Association|pages=14–15|url=https://archive.org/stream/battleboundbroo00unkngoog#page/n22/mode/1up|chapter=American Camp on the Middlebrook|oclc=66268501}} 7. ^{{cite book|last1=Schleicher|first1=William A.|last2=Winter|first2=Susan J.|title=Somerset County. Crossroads of the American Revolution|date=1999|publisher=Images of America|isbn=978-0-7385-0081-2|page=99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dR268e0GVAkC&pg=PA99}} 8. ^{{cite web|last1=Smither|first1=William|title=Campbell, Tunis Gulic (1812–1891)|url=http://www.blackpast.org/aah/campbell-tunis-gulic-1812-1891|publisher=BlackPast.org}} Bibliography
2 : Bound Brook, New Jersey|Unincorporated communities in Somerset County, New Jersey |
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