Pioneer Church

Pioneer Church is a New Jersey historical marker in Somerset County, dedicated 1964.

North of Manville in front of Johns'Manville Research Center · location approximate

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First reformed church of Raritan, organized in 1699. Was built here in 1721. Burned by Simcoe's Riaders, 1779. Rebuilt in Somerville.

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Historical maps covering this location

1674 · Totius Neobelgii nova et accuratissima tabula / [Hugo Allardt] (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1675 · Pascaerte van Nieu Nederland : streckende vande Zuÿdt Revier tot de Noordt Revier en't… (Princeton University Library)
1873 · Atlas of New Jersey, Counties of Middlesex and Monmouth. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1873 · Map of The State of New Jersey (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
1947 · Bound Brook, New Jersey (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Atlas of New Jersey, Counties of Middlesex and Monmouth, 1873, covering the location of Pioneer Church, 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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Pioneer Church

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