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|subdivision_name1 = |subdivision_name2 = Somerset |government_footnotes = 〔 |government_type = Faulkner Act Mayor-Council |governing_body = Township Council |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Daniel J. "Dan" Hayes (term ends December 31, 2015)〔〔(2015 New Jersey Mayors Directory ), New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, as of October 20, 2015. Accessed November 16, 2015.〕〔Levine, Audrey. ("Mayor Promises Transparent Government; Mayor Dan Hayes discusses goals during his reorganization speech." ), Bridgewater Patch, January 6, 2012. Accessed December 20, 2014.〕 |leader_title1 = Administrator |leader_name1 = James T. Naples〔(Contact names and phone numbers ), Township of Bridgewater. Accessed July 5, 2012.〕 |leader_title2 = Clerk |leader_name2 = Linda Doyle〔 |established_title = Royal charter |established_date = April 4, 1749 |established_title2 = Incorporated |established_date2 = February 21, 1798 |named_for = English town of Bridgwater |area_footnotes = 〔(2010 Census Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 21, 2015.〕 |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 84.200 |area_land_km2 = 82.974 |area_water_km2 = 1.226 |area_total_sq_mi = 32.510 |area_land_sq_mi = 32.037 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.473 |area_water_percent = 1.28 |area_rank = 74th of 566 in state 3rd of 21 in county〔 |population_as_of = 2010 Census |population_footnotes = 〔(DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Bridgewater township, Somerset County, New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed February 15, 2012.〕〔〔(Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 for Bridgewater township ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed February 15, 2012.〕 |population_total = 44464 |population_rank = 42nd of 566 in state 2nd of 21 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 = 535.9 |population_density_sq_mi = 1387.9 |population_density_rank = 349th of 566 in state 8th of 21 in county〔 |population_est = 44903 |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 = 138 |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 = 40.593138 |longd = -74.604731 |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 08807〔(Look Up a ZIP Code for Bridgewater, NJ ), United States Postal Service. Accessed February 15, 2012.〕〔(Zip Codes ), State of New Jersey. Accessed October 7, 2013.〕 08836 - Martinsville 08805 - Bound Brook |area_code = 732 and 908〔(Area Code Lookup - NPA NXX for Bridgewater, NJ ), Area-Codes.com. Accessed October 7, 2013.〕 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 3403507720〔〔(American FactFinder ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕〔(A Cure for the Common Codes: New Jersey ), Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed July 5, 2012.〕 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 0882171〔〔(US Board on Geographic Names ), United States Geological Survey. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |website = |footnotes = }} Bridgewater Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 44,464,〔〔〔 reflecting an increase of 1,524 (+3.5%) from the 42,940 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 10,431 (+32.1%) from the 32,509 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 July 5, 2012.〕 Bridgewater Township was originally created by Royal charter on April 4, 1749, from portions of the Northern precinct and was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798. During the nineteenth century, portions of the township were taken to form Warren Township (March 5, 1806), Branchburg Township (April 5, 1845), Somerville (March 25, 1863), Raritan (April 3, 1868) and Bound Brook (March 24, 1869).〔Snyder, John P. (''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' ), Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 222. Accessed February 15, 2012.〕 ==History== Bridgewater is a relatively large, suburban township located in the center of Somerset County. The area of the present Township of Bridgewater was originally purchased from a local Lenape Native American tribe. Bridgewater was chartered by George II of Great Britain in 1749, and incorporated on February 21, 1798, as one of New Jersey's 104 original townships.〔 It is named after the town of Bridgwater in the English county of Somerset.〔Hutchinson, Viola L. (''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names'' ), New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 27, 2015.〕 Tradition holds that it was at the Middlebrook encampment that the first official flag of the United States was unfurled, after a law to adopt a national flag had been passed by Congress on June 14, 1777. By special order of Congress, a Thirteen Star Flag is flown 24 hours a day at the Washington Camp Ground, part of the former Middlebrook encampment, in Bridgewater. Since 1889, the first hoisting of the flag is commemorated annually each July 4 with a changing of the flag, a reading of the Declaration of Independence, and the delivery of an historical address.〔Staff. ("PATRIOTIC READING AGAIN SAVES SITE" ), ''The New York Times'', July 4, 1970. "MIDDLEBROOK HEIGHTS, N. J., July 3 (UPI) A reading of the Declaration of Independence tomorrow will preserve for another year the historic campsite here where George Washington is believed to have first flown the 13-star flag officially before his troops."〕 Until the 1960s, Bridgewater was largely known as a farming community. In the 1970s its population began to grow when residents of larger cities such as Plainfield and Newark started to migrate into Bridgewater as a result of the 1967 Plainfield Riots and 1967 Newark riots. Subsequently, Bridgewater started to receive an influx of residents who worked in the strong pharmaceutical, telecommunications and financial industries in Bridgewater and the Raritan Valley. More recently, there has also been growth as Bridgewater has become more popular with New York City commuters who use Bridgewater Station on New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line or Interstate 78 East to commute to New York City. Bridgewater is now a fairly developed suburban community, with only a few traces of its rural past still evident in the town (particularly in its northwestern section). Bridgewater is now Somerset County's second-most populous municipality, after Franklin Township. 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「Bridgewater Township, New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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