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Newton Township-March 27, 1751 by colonial county courts: April 11, 1864 by division: approx. 360 square miles (930 km 2) [f] Created by the colonial courts in Morris County from New Jersey's last unorganized wilderness areas; [23] one of original four precincts ceded to create Sussex County in 1753. [3]
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.
Operated by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, Stokes State Forest covers 16,025 acres (64.85 km 2) on Kittatinny Mountain in Montague, Sandyston, and Frankford townships. It was created by a donation of land to the state by New Jersey Governor Edward C. Stokes in 1907.
Founded in 1918 by Louis Borinsky, Tuscan Dairy Farms began as a family-run distribution operation, delivering dairy products door to door on routes throughout Union and Essex counties in New Jersey. Tuscan Dairy Farms produces fluid milk and dairy by-products which are available to supermarkets, general wholesale, and food service outlets ...
Don Bosco College was a Roman Catholic seminary located in Newton, New Jersey. Opening in 1928 (97 years ago) ( 1928 ) , it was operated by the Salesian Order (Society of St. Francis de Sales) until it was closed in 1989 and its 179-acre campus sold to the Sussex County, New Jersey government on June 22, 1991 for US$4,209,800.
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]
On June 9, 1947, Newton was elevated to an abbey, and placed under the patronage of Paul the Apostle. Significantly, an American, Fr Charles Coriston, was chosen as the first Abbot of Newton. At this time, the community included 21 priests (12 of them Americans), three American clerics, and 14 brothers (all expatriate Germans).