East Jersey Olde Towne Village facts for kids
Courtyard view of the Indian Queen Tavern, the New Brunswick Barracks, and the Runyon House
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| Location | 1050 River Road Piscataway, New Jersey |
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East Jersey Old Town Village (also spelled East Jersey Olde Towne Village) is an open-air museum located in Johnson Park in Piscataway, New Jersey. The Village is a collection of Raritan Valley area historic buildings and includes original, reconstructed, and replicated 18th and 19th century vernacular architecture typical of farm and merchant communities of Central Jersey. It is home to a permanent exhibition about Raritan Landing, an 18th-century inland port once located just downstream on the river. Since 1989, the Middlesex County Office of Arts and History has had responsibility for the village.
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Village entrance sign in 2014
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Courtyard view of the Smalleytown Schoolhouse and the Six Mile Run House
Buildings and original location
| Name | Image | Date | Original location | Notes |
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| Church of the Three Mile Run |  |
1703 | New Brunswick | A 1970s replica of a no longer extant 1703 Dutch Reformed church. The "footprint" of the original building can be seen in the still existing cemetery (along with many early grave markers) in New Brunswick on Route 27 at Hampton Road. |
| Jeremiah Dunn House |  |
c. 1750 | Piscataway | Reconstruction |
| Pound House |  |
1743 | Piscataway | Also known as the Fitzrandolph House. |
| Indian Queen Tavern |  |
ca 1729 | New Brunswick | |
| New Brunswick Barracks |  |
1758 | New Brunswick | A 1970s replica of a portion of a 1758 military barracks located on George St in New Brunswick and destroyed by fire in 1796. |
| Runyon House |  |
ca 1755 | Piscataway | |
| Six Mile Run House |  |
c. 1760 | South Brunswick | Moved from the Six Mile Run area in 1979. |
| Smalleytown Schoolhouse |  |
1803 | Warren Township | |
| Elias Vanderveer House |  |
c. 1745 | Pluckemin | Reconstruction. |
| Farley Blacksmith Shop |  |
c. 1850 | New Brunswick | |
| Williamson Wheelwright Shop |  |
18th century | North Brunswick | |
| Runyon Wagon House |  |
c. 1840 | Piscataway |
See also
- List of the oldest buildings in New Jersey
- Cornelius Low House
- Metlar-Bodine House
- Ephraim Fitz-Randolph House
- Road Up Raritan Historic District
- Monmouth County Historical Association
- Meadows Foundation (New Jersey)
- New Bridge Landing
- Six Mile Run
- Jacobus Vanderveer House - brother of Elias Vanderveer
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