Old Stone Bridge

Old Stone Bridge is a New Jersey historical marker in Somerset County, dedicated 1965.

North of Bound Brook · location approximate

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Built during the 1730's to connect the "Great Raritan Road" with the "Road Up Raritan." Creek diverted in 1876.

Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.

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Princeton University Library

Historical maps covering this location

1733 · A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent… (Princeton University Library)
1755 · North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville, improved with the back settlements of… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1777 · The province of New Jersey, divided into east and west, commonly called the Jerseys (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1872 · Topographical map of Middlesex Co., New Jersey. (1872) (Internet Archive)
1873 · Atlas of New Jersey, Counties of Middlesex and Monmouth. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Atlas of New Jersey, Counties of Middlesex and Monmouth, 1873, covering the location of Old Stone Bridge, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Atlas of New Jersey, Counties of Middlesex and Monmouth, 1873, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Old Stone Bridge

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