Run The Road Vol 1 Raritan
Van Derveer, and J. 'Map of Somerset County New Jersey Entirely from Original Surveys' (Camden, N.J.: Lloyd Van Derveer, 1850) [Library of Congress]. Becker Traffic Pro High Speed Updated.
Wall map, with ornamental border and added color,104 × 85 cm. Scale: 1 mile to 1.5 inches. First wall map of Somerset County. It includes a separate detailed plan of Somerville (at a scale of 33 perches to 1 inch). Engravings of the state capitol (Trenton), county buildings (Somerville), Young Ladies Institute (Somerville), A.
Cammann residence (Somerville), First Dutch Reformed Church (Somerville), Brearley & Mount's Mills (Rocky Hill), and J. Calculus 9th Edition Varberg Pdf. Kelly's mill property (Raritan) circle the map (clockwise from top left). 2013: Somerset County Courthouse block fronting Main Street, between today's North Bridge Street and Grove Street (Somerville). The current white marble edifice was completed in 1909. Visible in the background, the old Dutch Reformed Church building has become part of the court's administrative complex. Eight townships, shown populated with landowners, are marked in pink, blue, orange, yellow, or green: Bedminster, Bernards, Branchburg, Bridgewater, Franklin, Hillsborough, Montgomery, and Warren. Major communities are named with bold capital letters.
Some major township roads are identified—'Honeman's Lane' (Bedminster), also known as Honeyman's Lane, 'Lime Kilns' (Bernards), 'Amwell Road' (Hillsborough), and 'Burnt Hill Road' (Montgomery)—which continue to this day. The Raritan River divides the county from west to east, and the Delaware and Raritan Canal follows the Millstone River along the western boundary of Franklin Township. Abbreviations indicate the locations of schoolhouses, sawmills, gristmills, churches (Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Friends Meeting Houses), blacksmith and wheelwright shops, and post offices. The statistical table on the right side of the map gives the area (in acres and square miles) of each township, but the columns for taxable inhabitants and total population are empty. The 'scrolled' description at the upper left boasts that the county 'stands high for the general intelligence and high moral tone of its citizens and their attention to the cause of Education. Some of the greatest men whose names adorn the history of this state, claim it as their birth-place.