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Flemington New Jersey General Information

By Paul F. Stillwaggon Warren NJ

Real Estate Agent with Weichert Realtors

September 16, 2007 01:56 PM

Flemington, NJ

Flemington was originally the territory of the Lenni-Lenape Indians, as was all of Hunterdon County. In 1712,the Flemington acreage was acquired by William Penn and Daniel Coxe as part of a land parcel of 9170 acres. In 1756, Samuel Fleming purchased part of this land, and built his home which still stands on Bonnell Street, and "Fleming's Town" was born.

Flemington was essentially agricultural due to the surrounding fertile farmland and Early German and English settlers engaged in industries dependent on farm products. Overs time, poultry and dairy farms superseded crops in agricultural importance.

In 1785, Flemington was chosen as the County Seat of Hunterdon. Fire destroyed the old courthouse in 1826 and the City of Lambertville made an unsuccessful attempt to have the Seat moved.

General Information
Incorporated: Population: Area: County: Websites:	1895 7,196 1.29 Sq. Mi. Hunterdon www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/ mun/fleming.htm http://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/
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Demographics
Flemington 08822

Flemington remained the County Seat and a new Courthouse which stands today on Main Street was built.

By 1980 sixty-five percent of Flemington borough had been included on the New Jersey State Register of Historic Places and is now on the National Register.

In 1856, the Hunterdon County Agricultural society purchased 40 acres of land in Flemington that would accommodate the people, exhibits and livestock for the County Fair. The purpose of the Fair was to promote competition between farmers, stock raisers and machinery manufacturers which continued until 2003 when the County Fair found a new home in the neighboring town of Raritan Township.

The most dramatic change in Flemington was its transformation into a major factory outlet center, which is called Liberty Village and Turntable Junction. With over sixty-five stores, it has become one of the finest high quality manufacture outlet shopping complexes in the Country.

Historic Flemington is a community which maintains many faces from the Flemington Fair to Liberty Village, from art and craft shows to stock car racing, from small family owned businesses to large industrial enterprises and it is all maintained in a quaint country atmosphere.

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