Middlebrook, New Jersey | |
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 West Main Street and Vosseller Avenue, Middlebrook section of Bound Brook, site of the Middlebrook Hotel, in 2017 | |
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| Coordinates: 40°33′36″N 74°32′24″W / 40.56000°N 74.54000°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New Jersey |
| County | Somerset |
| Borough | Bound Brook |
| Named for | Middle Brook (Raritan River tributary) |
Middlebrook is an unincorporated community within the borough of Bound Brook in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is named after the Middle Brook, a tributary of the Raritan River, on the western side of the community.[1][2] The early-18th-century Old York Road, connecting Philadelphia to New York City, passed through here.[3]
- ^ Washington, George (May 29, 1777). "General Orders, 29 May 1777". Founders Online, National Archives. Note 1.
The villages of Middlebrook and Bound Brook adjoined one another on the north bank of the Raritan River … They are now part of the town of Bound Brook.
- ^ United States Army Corps of Engineers (2012). Where the Green Brook Meets the Raritan (PDF). p. 10.
the twin villages of Bound Brook and Middle Brook, both located on the north side of the Raritan River close to the two streams for which they were named
- ^ Cawley, James; Cawley, Margaret (1965). Along the Old York Road. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. pp. 47–48. ISBN 978-0-813-50487-2. OCLC 692143813.