Don Bosco College

For schools of a similar name, see Don Bosco School.
From its founding in 1928, Don Bosco College was a Roman Catholic seminary connected with the Salesian Order. In 1992, Sussex County bought the campus to develop a newly founded two-year college, Sussex County Community College, founded in 1992.

Don Bosco College was a Roman Catholic seminary located in Newton, New Jersey. Opening in 1928 (96 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.[1][2]

  1. ^ Wright, Kevin Newton NJ: Pearl of the Kittatinny – "The Horton Mansion Former Don Bosco Campus, now Sussex County Community College" (Retrieved July 10, 2012)
  2. ^ Sussex County Clerk's Office (Newton, New Jersey), Register of Deeds. Deed between the Salesian Society, Inc., a corporation of the State of New York being the parent company of Don Bosco College and the Salesian Society of New Jersey, Inc., and The County of Sussex, a political division of the State of New Jersey (10 May 1989, filed 22 June 1989) in Deed Book 1662, page 022 et seq. (Instrument No. 89-39284).