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|subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Burlington |government_footnotes = 〔 |government_type = Walsh Act |governing_body = Board of Commissioners |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Joseph R. Malone III (term ends May 14, 2017)〔〔(2015 New Jersey Mayors Directory ), New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, as of October 20, 2015. Accessed November 16, 2015.〕 |leader_title1 = Clerk |leader_name1 = Patricia D. Ryan〔(Clerk's Office ), City of Bordentown. Accessed June 13, 2012.〕 |established_title = Incorporated |established_date = December 9, 1825 (as borough) |established_title1 = Reincorporated |established_date1 = April 3, 1867 (as city) |named_for = Joseph Borden |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = 〔(2010 Census Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 21, 2015.〕〔(GCT-PH1: Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - State -- Place and (in selected states) County Subdivision from 2010 Census Summary File 1 for New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 13, 2012.〕 |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 2.507 |area_land_km2 = 2.407 |area_water_km2 = 0.100 |area_total_sq_mi = 0.968 |area_land_sq_mi = 0.929 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.039 |area_water_percent = 3.99 |area_rank = 503rd of 566 in state 36th of 40 in county〔 |population_as_of = 2010 Census |population_footnotes = 〔(DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Bordentown city, Burlington County, New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 13, 2012.〕〔〔(Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 for Bordentown city ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed June 13, 2012.〕 |population_total = 3924 |population_rank = 415th of 566 in state 31st of 40 in county〔(GCT-PH1 Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - State -- County Subdivision from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 for New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed December 11, 2012.〕 |population_density_km2 = 1630.2 |population_density_sq_mi = 4222.3 |population_density_rank = 142nd of 566 in state 4th of 40 in county〔 |population_est = 3900 |pop_est_as_of = 2014 |pop_est_footnotes = 〔 |timezone = Eastern (EST) |utc_offset = -5 |timezone_DST = Eastern (EDT) |utc_offset_DST = -4 |elevation_footnotes = 〔, Geographic Names Information System. Accessed March 4, 2013.〕 |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = 49 |coordinates_type = region:US_type:city |coordinates_region = US-NJ |coordinates_display = inline,title |coordinates_footnotes = 〔〔(US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990 ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |latd = 40.149824 |longd = -74.707642 |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 08505〔(Look Up a ZIP Code for Bordentown, NJ ), United States Postal Service. Accessed June 13, 2012.〕〔(Zip Codes ), State of New Jersey. Accessed October 23, 2013.〕 |area_code = 609 exchanges: 291, 298, 324, 424〔(Area Code Lookup - NPA NXX for Bordentown, NJ ), Area-Codes.com. Accessed October 23, 2013.〕 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 3400506670〔〔(American FactFinder ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕〔(A Cure for the Common Codes: New Jersey ), Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed June 13, 2012.〕 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 0885165〔〔(US Board on Geographic Names ), United States Geological Survey. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |website = |footnotes = }} Bordentown is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 3,924.〔〔〔 The population declined by 45 (-1.1%) from the 3,969 counted in the 2000 U.S. Census, which had in turn declined by 372 (-8.6%) from the 4,341 counted in the 1990 Census.〔(Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010 ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed June 7, 2012.〕 Bordentown is located at the confluence of the Delaware River, Blacks Creek and Crosswicks Creek. The latter is the border between Burlington and Mercer Counties. Bordentown is southeast from Trenton and northeast of Philadelphia. Bordentown was originally incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on December 9, 1825, from portions within Chesterfield Township. It was reincorporated as a city on April 3, 1867, and separated from Chesterfield Township c. 1877.〔Snyder, John P. (''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' ), Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 94. Accessed June 13, 2012.〕 ==History== Thomas Farnsworth, an English Quaker, was credited with being the first European settler in the Bordentown area in 1682, when he moved his family up river from Burlington. He made a new home on the windswept bluff overlooking the broad bend in the Delaware River. The Farnsworth's cabin was situated near the northwest corner of Park Street and Prince Street, perhaps where an 1883 frame house now stands. "Farnsworth Landing" soon became the center of trade for the region.〔Staff. ("Welcome to Bordentown City" ), ''Courier-Post'', July 28, 2007. Accessed June 13, 2012. "According to the Bordentown Historical Society, it was one of the first free public schools in New Jersey. According to past Courier-Post reports, an English Quaker named Thomas Farnsworth settled the area in 1682 and created an active trading center called Farnsworth's Landing."〕 Farnsworth is also the namesake of one of Bordentown's main street, Farnsworth Avenue. Joseph Borden, for whom the city is named,〔Hutchinson, Viola L. (''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names'' ), New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 27, 2015.〕〔Gannett, Henry. (''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States'' ), p. 37. United States Government Printing Office, 1905. Accessed August 27, 2015.〕 arrived in 1717, and by May 1740 founded a transportation system to carry people and freight between New York City and Philadelphia. This exploited Bordentown's natural location as the point on the Delaware River that provided the shortest overland route to Perth Amboy, from which cargo and people could be ferried to New York City.〔(BORDENTOWN CITY MASTER PLAN HISTORIC PRESERVATION ELEMENT ), Burlington County Bridge Commission, March 2012. Accessed June 13, 2012. "In 1717, Joseph Borden, a farmer from Freehold, New Jersey, settled here, bought up a substantial part of the land, and changed the town's name to Borden's Town. He started a packet line from Philadelphia to Bordentown, where travelers would stop to rest and then proceed on Borden's stage line to Perth Amboy, where they would make their connections to New York."〕 By 1776, Bordentown was full of patriots. Patience Lovell Wright, America's first female sculptor, was creating wax busts in King George's court in England. Later, however, Bordentown became a rabble-rousing hotbed. In addition to Joseph Borden's son (also named Joseph Borden), who became a colonel during the war, patriots Francis Hopkinson (a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence), Colonel Kirkbride, Colonel Oakey Hoagland and Thomas Paine resided in the area. Due to their well-published activity in Bordentown, the British retaliated. Hessians occupied the town in 1776, and the British pillaged and razed the town during May and June 1778.〔Boatman, Gail. ("Re-enactors to do battle in Bordentown" ), ''Burlington County Times'', June 7, 2007. Accessed June 13, 2012.〕 Other notable people who have lived in the city include Clara Barton, who in 1852 started the first free public school in New Jersey and later founded the American Red Cross.〔Staff. ("Barton started first free school" ), ''Courier-Post'', January 12, 1999. Accessed July 8, 2013.〕 A recreation of her schoolhouse stands at the corner of Crosswicks and Burlington streets.〔Staff. ("CLARA BARTON WAS PIONEER IN BURLCO PUBLIC EDUCATION" ), ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', April 20, 1999. Accessed July 8, 2013. "At Burlington and Crosswicks Streets in Bordentown is a one-room brick schoolhouse, believed to be the first public school in the county, which Barton, then 30, started in 1852 as part of her goal to overcome a bias in the community against 'pauper schools.'"〕 The Bordentown School operated from 1894 to 1955. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bordentown, New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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