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Towns & Villages: Frenchtown, NJ

Frenchtown was incorporated as a Borough in 1867. A unique and picturesque little town on the eastern bank of the Delaware River. The beginning of Frenchtown as a village is with the advent of Thomas Lowery, who came from Flemington in 1785 and built a grist mill near the river, also a saw mill. He erected a dwelling near the corner of the road, now known as the intersection of Race and Bridge Streets. The first store in the village was a little low story-an-a-half structure aroung 1820.

Pictures of Frenchtown, NJ

The Old Temperance House Hummer’s Corner in 1878
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