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Roughly bounded by the NJ-NY state line and State Highway 23. between Port Jervis, New York and Wantage Township, New Jersey 41°17′16″N 74°41′40″W / 41.287778°N 74.694444°W / 41.287778; -74.694444 ( High Point State
The Henry W. Merriam House, also known as the Merriam Home, is an historic mansion located at 131 Main Street in the town of Newton in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1970, for its significance in architecture and social history. It is Newton's prime example of ...
Sussex County Courthouse is located at the corner of High and Spring Streets in Newton, the county seat of Sussex County, New Jersey in the United States. It is part 10th vicinage of the New Jersey Superior Court. [3] [4] It was originally built in 1765 and rebuilt in 1847. [5]
Newton is located near the headwaters of the east branch of the Paulins Kill, a 41.6-mile (66.9 km) tributary of the Delaware River. [27] In October 1715, Colonial surveyor Samuel Green plotted a tract of 2,500 acres (1,000 ha) at the head of the Paulins Kill, then known as the Tohokenetcunck River, on behalf of William Penn.
On 26 October 1979, the First Presbyterian Church of Newton was placed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is also included as part of the Newton Town Plot Historic District which was approved and entered on the National Register of Historic Places on 12 November 1992.
Hill Memorial Museum at 82 Main Street in Newton, was constructed for the historical society in 1916 and has served as its home since then. It was built in the renaissance revival style to the design of Henry T. Stephens, an architect from Paterson, New Jersey by local contractor Thomas Farrel. It was dedicated on June 8, 1917, and named after ...
In December 2001, a number of these monks arrived in Newton. [10] The monastery was officially handed over on January 25, 2002, and was elevated to the status of a simple priory, known as Newton II, on January 25, 2004. The small number of American monks who remain at Newton are governed by a special statute. [11]
Newton Friends' Meetinghouse is the home of an active meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, who meet in a historic Quaker meeting house at 808 Cooper Street in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1824 as an extremely simple "Quaker clapboard" structure in the typically subdued style of Quaker meeting houses.