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Somerset County, New Jersey

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87historic places

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1688formed

345,361pop. 2020

47cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 87 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Somerville, Basking Ridge, Bernardsville.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

36 of 87 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

87 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Alward Farmhouse	Basking Ridge	Building	1986
Baker-Dauderstadt Farm	Warren	Building	2008
Basking Ridge Classical School	Basking Ridge	Building	1976
Bedens Brook Bridge	Rocky Hill	Structure	1994
Bedens Brook Road Bridge	Stoutsburg	Structure	1994
Bernardsville Station	Bernardsville	Building	1984
Blawenburg Historic District	Blawenburg	District	1990
Boudinot-Southard Farmstead	Bernards Township	Building	2009
Bound Brook Station	Bound Brook	Building	1984
Bridgepoint Historic District	Rocky Hill	District	1975
Brook Theater, The	Bound Brook Borough	Building	2014
Cat Tail Brook Bridge	Rocky Hill	Structure	1979
Coffee House	Basking Ridge	Building	1977
Craig, Moses, Limekilns	Peapack Gladstone	Structure	2019
East Millstone Historic District	East Millstone	District	1983
Elmendorf House	Millstone	Building	1992
Far Hills Station	Far Hills	Building	1984
Franklin Corners Historic District	Bernardsville	District	1975
Frelinghuysen, Gen. John, House	Raritan	Building	1971
Gladstone Station	Gladstone	Building	1984
Griggstown Historic District	Griggstown	District	1984
Gulick, Dirck, House	Montgomery Township	Building	2003
Higginsville Road Bridges	Hillsborough	Structure	2000
Huff House and Farmstead	Flagtown	Building	1976
Kennedy-Martin-Stelle Farmstead	Bernards Township (Basking Ridge)	District	2004
Kingston Village Historic District	Kingston	District	1990
Kirch-Ford House	Warrenville	Building	1988
Lamington Historic District	Lamington	District	1984
Liberty Corner Historic District	Liberty Corner	District	1991
Linn, Alexander and James, Homestead	Far Hills	Building	1988
Lyons Station	Lyons	Building	1984
Lyons Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District	Lyons	District	2013
Maplewood	Mongomery	Building	2000
McDonald's-Kline's Mill	Bedminster	Building	1987
Meadows, The	Franklin	Building	1973
Middlebrook Encampment Site	Bound Brook	Site	1975
Middlebush Village Historic District	Franklin	District	2007
Millstone Historic District	Millstone	District	1976
Millstone Valley Agricultural District	Millstone	District	1977
Mount Bethel Baptist Meetinghouse	Martinsville	Building	1976
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church	Montgomery Township	Building	2021
Neshanic Historic District	Neshanic	District	1979
Neshanic Mills	Neshanic	District	1978
Neshanic Station Historic District	Branchburg Township	District	2016
North Branch Historic District	North Branch	District	2012
Olcott Avenue Histrict District	Bernardsville Borough	District	2009
Old Dutch Parsonage	Somerville	Building	1971
Old Stone Arch Bridge	Bound Brook Borough, Middlesex	Structure	2008
Parker, John, Tavern	Bernardsville	Building	1978
Pluckemin Village Historic District	Bedminster	District	1982
Plukemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site	Washington Camp Ground	Site	2008
Presbyterian Church at Bound Brook	Bound Brook Borough	Building	2007
Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge	Basking Ridge	Building	1974
Raritan Bridge	Raritan	Structure	1992
Raritan Station	Raritan	Building	1984
Reformed Dutch Church of Blawenburg	Blawenburg	Building	1985
Relief Home Company No. 2 Engine House	Raritan Borough	Building	2000
Reynolds-Scherman House	Bernardsville	Building	1989
River Road Historic Rural District	Griggstown	District	1991
Robert, Daniel, House	Somerville	Building	2008
Rock Brook Bridge	Zion	Structure	1994
Rockingham	Franklin Township	Building	1970
Rocky Hill Historic District	Rocky Hill	District	1982
Six Mile Run Historic District	Franklin Park	District	1995
Six Mile Run Reformed Church	Franklin	Building	2009
Smalley-Wormser House	Plainfield	Building	1978
Smith, J. Harper, Mansion	Somerville Borough	Building	1998
Somerset Courthouse Green	Somerville	Building	1989
South Branch Historic District	Raritan	District	1977
South Branch Schoolhouse	Township of Branchburg	Building	2005
St. Bernard's Church and Parish House	Bernardsville	Building	2006
St. John's Church Complex	Somerville	Building	2003
Staats House	South Bound Brook Borough	Building	2002
Stirling, Lord, Manor Site	Basking Ridge	Site	1978
Ten Eyck, Andrew, House	Branchburg	Building	2004
Tulipwood	Somerset	Site	2005
Vail-Trust House	Green Brook	Building	2008
Van Der Veer-Harris House	Woods Tavern	Building	2008
Van Horne House	Bridgewater Township	Building	2002
Van Veghten House	Somerville	Building	1979
VanDerventer-Brunson House	North Plainfield Borough	Building	2004
Vanderveer, Jacobus, House	Pluckemin	Building	1995
Vermeule, Dr. John, House	North Plainfield	Building	2013
Vosseller's-Castner's-Allen's Tavern	Bridgewater	Building	1986
Wallace House	Somerville	Building	1970
Washington Park Historic District	North Plainfield	District	1987
West End Hose Company Number 3	Somerville	Structure	2002

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Somerset was formed in 1688 (1688-05-14) from Middlesex.

SOMERSET created from MIDDLESEX.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Somerset County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
12,296	12,815	16,506	17,455	22,057	27,162	32,948	47,991	74,390	99,052	143,913	203,129	297,490	345,361

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

47 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 47 of 47 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bedminster Reformed Church Cemetery	40.67093	-74.64488
Beekman Cemetery	40.42768	-74.63
Bernardsville Methodist Cemetery	40.7224	-74.5696
Blawenburg Cemetery	40.40901	-74.70284
Bound Brook Mountain Avenue Cemetery	40.56899	-74.52793
Brook Avenue Cemetery	40.62315	-74.4246
Cedar Grove Cemetery	40.5018	-74.53401
Cedar Hill Cemetery	40.4997	-74.57775
Clover Hill Reformed Church and Cemetery	40.48787	-74.78155
Evergreen Cemetery	40.70815	-74.55543
Flagtown Cemetery	40.5033	-74.69193
Harlingen Reformed Cemetery	40.47176	-74.65849
Hill Cemetery	40.45665	-74.59751
Hillsborough Reformed Church Cemetery	40.49961	-74.58919
Hoagland Cemetery	40.51537	-74.68571
Hofheimer Cemetery	40.61417	-74.4886
Holy Cross Cemetery	40.69762	-74.5757
Holy Ghost Carpatho - Russian Orthodox Cemetery	40.5238	-74.59183
Immaculate Conception Cemetery	40.57225	-74.59917
Kingston Presbyterian Cemetery	40.37542	-74.61631
Millington Baptist Cemetery	40.66287	-74.53238
Mount Bethel Cemetery	40.63843	-74.51488
Mount Horeb Methodist Church Cemetery	40.62012	-74.5629
Neshanic Reformed Cemetery	40.50287	-74.71238
New Somerville Cemetery	40.56093	-74.61599
North Branch Reformed Church Cemetery	40.60524	-74.67299
North Plainfield Burying Ground - Cemetery	40.63661	-74.45551
Old Somerville Cemetery	40.55982	-74.61349
Pluckemin Presbyterian Church Cemetery	40.64623	-74.63521
Rocky Hill Cemetery	40.40649	-74.64127
Sacred Heart Cemetery	40.52265	-74.5943
Saint Bernards Cemetery	40.7162	-74.55932
Saint Bernards Roman Catholic Cemetery	40.5862	-74.64599
Saint Joseph Cemetery	40.56544	-74.56238
Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery	40.66398	-74.43237
Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery	40.51716	-74.58953
Somerset Hills Cemetery	40.70092	-74.57309
South Middlebush Cemetery	40.48148	-74.53821
Springdale United Methodist Church Cemetery	40.60842	-74.50921
Ten Mile Run Cemetery	40.41367	-74.6008
Trinity United Church Cemetery	40.61871	-74.51682
Unionville Cemetery	40.44534	-74.69917
Vail Family Burial Ground	40.67663	-74.54095
Van Nest Burying Ground	40.52789	-74.59154
Veghte Burying Ground Cemetery	40.55065	-74.64932
Vroom Family Burial Ground	40.54732	-74.68016
Zion Road Cemetery	40.43343	-74.75294

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
South Somerville	40.53566	-74.61849

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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