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Millstone is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 418,〔〔〔 reflecting an increase of 8 (+2.0%) from the 410 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 40 (-8.9%) from the 450 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 February 13, 2013.〕 Millstone was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 14, 1894, from portions of Hillsborough Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day. The borough was reincorporated on March 12, 1928.〔Snyder, John P. (''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' ), Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 223. Accessed March 12, 2012.〕 The borough was named for the Millstone River, whose name derives from an incident in which a millstone was dropped into it.〔(The History of Township of Millstone, New Jersey ), Township of Millstone. Accessed September 7, 2015. "Our town is named after the Millstone River that originates in the Township. The river was first named by the Lenape Indians as the Mattawong and later renamed by early settlers as Millstone River."〕〔Hutchinson, Viola L. (''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names'' ), New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed September 7, 2015.〕〔Gannett, Henry. (''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States'' ), p. 209. United States Government Printing Office, 1905. Accessed September 7, 2015.〕 Added in 1976, Millstone Borough is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and encompasses 58 buildings. The borough possesses a military significance for 1700–1749, 1750–1799, 1850–1874.〔(New Jersey - Somerset County ), National Register of Historic Places. Accessed February 13, 2013.〕 ''New Jersey Monthly'' magazine ranked Millstone as its 7th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.〔("Best Places To Live - The Complete Top Towns List 1-100" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', February 21, 2008. Accessed February 24, 2008.〕 ==History== Millstone, then called Somerset Courthouse, was the county seat of Somerset County from 1738 until the British burned it to the ground in 1779 during the American Revolutionary War.〔(A Brief History of Millstone, also known as Somerset Courthouse; Early History ), Millstone Borough. Accessed February 2, 2015.〕 After the victory at Princeton on January 3, 1777, General George Washington headquartered at the Van Doren house, while the army camped nearby that night. The next day, they marched to Pluckemin on the way to their winter encampment at Morristown.〔Honeyman, A. Van Doren. ("The Second Somerset Courthouse - At Millstone" ), pp. 50–58. in ''Somerset County Historical Quarterly'', 1912. Accessed February 2, 2015.〕〔Fischer, David Hackett. (''Washington's Crossing'' ), p. 342. Oxford University Press, 2006 (New York). ISBN 0-19-517034-2.〕 Millstone was briefly connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad when the Mercer and Somerset Railway was extended to the town in the 1870s and connected via a bridge across the Millstone River to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad, but that arrangement did not last into the 1880s. Remnants of the railroad bridge can still be seen. 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「Millstone, New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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