August Zeller, Antiques & Fine Art Magazine. Accessed October 16, 2019. "August Zeller (American, 1863-1918) was born in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1863."
Staff. "Welcome to Bordentown City", Courier-Post, July 28, 2007. Accessed June 13, 2012. "According to the Bordentown Historical Society, it was one of the first free public schools in New Jersey. According to past Courier-Post reports, an English Quaker named Thomas Farnsworth settled the area in 1682 and created an active trading center called Farnsworth's Landing."
Raum, John O. The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1, p. 263, J. E. Potter and company, 1877. Accessed July 8, 2013. "Bordentown township and borough contained in 1860 a population of 4,027, and in 1870, 6,041." Data for each component is not provided for 1860 and 1870, and no data is provided for 1850.
District Information, Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed May 4, 2022. "What communities make up the Regional School District? Our district is comprised of the Township of Bordentown, the City of Bordentown and the Borough of Fieldsboro. New Hanover Township sends students on a tuition basis grades 9-12.... There are five schools in the school district. There are two elementary schools serving students in full day kindergarten through grade 3; Clara Barton is located in Bordentown City, and Peter Muschal is located in Bordentown Township. MacFarland Intermediate School, located in Bordentown City, serves grades 4 & 5, while Bordentown Regional Middle School, located in Bordentown Township, serves grades 6, 7 & 8 and Bordentown Regional High School serves grades 9-12 and is located in Bordentown Township."
Board Members, Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed February 7, 2020.
Zimmaro, Mark. "New Hanover School to decide on middle school proposal", Burlington County Times, March 11, 2011. Accessed October 1, 2014. "NEW HANOVER — The township's school district will decide on Wednesday whether to enter an agreement with the Bordentown Regional School District for a send-receive agreement for middle school children. The district which serves New Hanover and Wrightstown, already sends its high school students to Bordentown Regional High School and district officials are trying to determine whether sending sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to Bordentown Regional Middle School would be a feasible idea."
O'Sullivan, Jeannie. "Bordentown Historical Society plans a peachy time", Burlington County Times, August 4, 2011. Accessed July 8, 2013. "The Bordentown Historical Society's annual peach social will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at 302 Farnsworth Ave. Admission is $5.... It is one of the signature annual events hosted by the historical society, which also sponsors a holiday home tour and ghost walk."
O'Sullivan, Jeannie. "Trio wins seats on Bordentown City Commission", Burlington County Times, May 15, 2013. Accessed April 4, 2017. "Two incumbents and a longtime politician won four-year terms on the nonpartisan City Commission on Tuesday. Mayor James Lynch and Commissioner Zigmont Targonski won their re-election bids with 313 and 208 votes respectively. Joseph Malone, a former commissioner who served as a 30th District assemblyman from 1993 to 2012, received 337 votes."
Stevens, Andrew. "Douglas Palmer; Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey", City Mayors Foundation, March 2, 2008. Accessed November 21, 2013. "Douglas Palmer was born in Trenton and attended Trenton Public Schools. He then graduated from Bordentown Military Institute in Bordentown, New Jersey."
City Clerk, City of Bordentown. Accessed April 18, 2024.
Bordentown City Master Plan Historic Preservation ElementArchived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, Burlington County Bridge Commission, March 2012. Accessed June 13, 2012. "In 1717, Joseph Borden, a farmer from Freehold, New Jersey, settled here, bought up a substantial part of the land, and changed the town's name to Borden's Town. He started a packet line from Philadelphia to Bordentown, where travelers would stop to rest and then proceed on Borden's stage line to Perth Amboy, where they would make their connections to New York."
Home Page, Consolidated Fire Association. Accessed October 21, 2016. "Consolidated Fire Association was established July 5th 1966 when the Citizen Hook and Ladder Co., The Delaware Fire Co. and Weccacoe Hose Co. dissolved and merged into one new fire association."
Staff. "South Jersey native flying high in skate world", Courier-Post, August 20, 2015. Accessed January 3, 2019. "Bordentown City-raised skateboarder made good Ishod Wair will compete in a major Street League Skateboarding competition in Newark."
Libov, Charlotte. "Rob Novak Races Toward His Olympic Dream", Heathy Magazine. Accessed July 22, 2020. "But in high school Novak yearned to play football. 'My mom always made sure I had my medicine in case I needed it,' says Novak. It turned out that not only did Novak not need the medication, he was destined to become a runner, even back there in Bordentown, N.J., where he grew up."
"Soccer", The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 1, 2008. Accessed July 22, 2020. "U.S. assistant Erica Walsh is the head women's coach of Penn State and is from Bordentown, N.J."
"USAR: Danny Sammons spotlight", Motorsport.com, June 26, 2002, updated November 3, 2009. Accessed September 4, 2024. "Eighteen-year-old Danny Sammons of Bordentown, NJ, who just graduated from Bordentown Regional High School with Honors Wednesday, June 19th, is starting to taste success in his sophomore season with the USAR Hooters ProCup Series."
Wildstein, David. "Cheesman picked to fill Bordentown vacancy; Ex-deputy mayor returns following resignation of James Lynch", New Jersey Globe, March 8, 2024. Accessed April 18, 2024. "Heather Cheesman is returning to the Bordentown City Board of Commissioners to fill a vacant seat, giving the municipality its first woman majority in history. She replaces James E. Lynch, Jr., who resigned on March 1 for reasons that were not specific.... Cheesman will serve until the results of a November special election are certified and a replacement is picked to fill the remaining eight months of Lynch’s term."
Staff. "Clara Barton was Pioneer in BurlCo Public Education", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1999. Accessed July 8, 2013. "At Burlington and Crosswicks Streets in Bordentown is a one-room brick schoolhouse, believed to be the first public school in the county, which Barton, then 30, started in 1852 as part of her goal to overcome a bias in the community against 'pauper schools.'"
Levinsky, David. "Zeitz Appointment", Burlington County Times, December 17, 2008. Accessed October 23, 2013. "One-time congressional hopeful Josh Zeitz of Bordentown City is working in Trenton rather than Washington. Zeitz, 34, a history professor who unsuccessfully challenged Republican Chris Smith for the incumbent's 4th Congressional District seat in this year's election, was formally appointed as senior policy adviser to Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Monday."
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Rittenhouse, Lindsay. "Fire company begins fundraising for 250th anniversary, restoration project", NJ.com, July 6, 2015. Accessed October 21, 2016. "Hope Hose Humane Company 1 traces its firefighting roots to 1767, making it nine years older than the country and the second-oldest all volunteer fire department in the United States, the company says.... Paul Walsh, historian and secretary for Hope Hose Humane, said he even finds items on eBay such as old badges from Hope Hose and Humane fire companies that he then purchased. The companies merged into Hope Hose Humane in 1976."
Rittenhouse, Lindsay. "Northern Burlington's Eric Gibbons named N.J.'s best art teacher", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, June 28, 2015. Accessed November 15, 2018. "Owner of The Firehouse Gallery in Bordentown, founder of Firehouse Publications and director of the annual summer art camp program at the Firehouse Gallery for the past 21 years, Gibbons has made art education a top priority."
Johnson, Kelly. "Bordentown to honor historical patriot Captain Edward McCall", The Times, August 19, 2013. Accessed June 29, 2018. "Capt. Edward McCall, one of several historical patriots who have lived in Bordentown since it was settled in 1682, will be honored next month at a ceremony marking the 200th anniversary of a historic naval battle during the War of 1812."
Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Bordentown Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2018. Accessed February 7, 2020. "The Bordentown Regional School District (hereafter referred to as the 'District') is a Type II district located in the County of Burlington, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The Board is comprised of nine members elected to three-year terms. These terms are staggered so that three members’ terms expire each year. The purpose of the District is to educate students in grades kindergarten through twelfth at its five schools."
Government That Works; Opportunities For Change: The Report of the Bordentown Regional School District, New Jersey Department of the Treasury, September 1999. Accessed February 7, 2020. "The Bordentown Regional School District is composed of three municipalities, Bordentown Township (Township), Bordentown City (City) and Fieldsboro Borough (Borough). The school district is governed by a Board of Education consisting of five members from the Township, three from the City, and one from the Borough, and one non-voting member from the New Hanover Township District, which sends students in grades nine through twelve on a tuition basis."
Ferretti, Fred. "About New Jersey; It's Bordentown vs. the State Bureaucracy", The New York Times, February 18, 1979. Accessed June 6, 2011. "THE state, it appears, is still out to get Bordentown. But little does it realize that the place where Thomas Paine was during much of the Revolutionary War; where Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived; where Clara Barton began her first public school; where the first steam locomotive was tested and where Napoleon's brother lived will not be had that easily."
DeMasters, Karen. "On The Map; Remembering a Boarding School for Black Students", The New York Times, October 1, 2000. Accessed November 4, 2007. "He founded the school in 1886 in his living room in New Brunswick and then moved it to Bordentown on the property of the family of Admiral Charles Stewart, the captain of the U.S.S. Constitution from 1813 to 1815."
Hardy, Ernest. "Breaking Through; She Isn't Crazy, She's Rekindled", Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1994. Accessed October 23, 2013. "[Dionne Farris], raised by a single mother in Bordentown, N.J., hooked up with Atlanta's thriving R&B scene after moving there in 1990 and worked with the likes of producer Jermaine Dupri and the group TLC."
McGreevy, Nora, "New Jersey Estate Owned by Napoleon’s Older Brother Set to Become State Park", Smithsonian, March 23, 2021. Accessed March 25, 2021. "Comparatively, Napoleon’s older brother Joseph had an easier time in exile. After the French emperor’s downfall, the elder Bonaparte, who’d briefly served as king of Spain and Naples, headed to the United States, where he settled on a bluff overlooking the Delaware River in Bordentown, New Jersey. Between 1816 and 1839, Bonaparate lived on and off at a property dubbed Point Breeze, spending the remainder of his adult years in resplendent luxury."
Bordentown Regional School District 2016 Report Card NarrativeArchived December 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 27, 2017. "Bordentown Regional School District is a vibrant learning community, proudly serving the communities of Fieldsboro, Bordentown City and Bordentown Township.... In addition to the three aforementioned communities, Bordentown Regional High School also welcomes students from New Hanover into its ninth-twelfth grade population."
Eric Hamilton, The College of New Jersey. Accessed July 22, 2020. "Specifically, the Bordentown, NJ native was honored for his efforts in organizing and promoting the Mercer County area's 12th man Touchdown Club, which honors outstanding high school athletes each week during the regular season."
Stadnyk, Mary. "Grace of Perseverance; For 100 years, diocese has been blessed with the Poor Clare Sisters", The Monitor, December 10, 2009. Accessed October 23, 2013. "Having heard of the Poor Clares in Boston, Bishop McFaul contacted Mother Charitas, the abbess, and asked her to send sisters to Bordentown. Mother Charitas, who became the Bordentown's community's first abbess, was delighted with the request for it had been her wish to spread the Franciscan Order of St. Clare to other areas of the United States. On Aug. 12, 1909, the first five Sisters of St. Clare arrived in Bordentown."
Kilby, David. "Divine Word Father Detig reflects on his 50 years as missionary ", The Monitor, July 24, 2013. Accessed October 23, 2013. "When walking through the peaceful grounds of the Divine Word Residence, Bordentown, it's easy to forget that those 100 acres overlooking the Delaware River provide a home for missionaries like Father Joseph Detig, who has spread the Gospel around the world and endured many of the trials that come with doing so."
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"Autobiography of Joseph Mailliard", The Condor. Accessed September 5, 2023. "As a matter of fact, my first appearance occurred on December 30, 1857, in Bordentown, New Jersey, U. S. A., in a house just across the street from the onetime domain of Joseph Bonaparte."
Bordentown City Master Plan Historic Preservation ElementArchived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, Burlington County Bridge Commission, March 2012. Accessed June 13, 2012. "In 1717, Joseph Borden, a farmer from Freehold, New Jersey, settled here, bought up a substantial part of the land, and changed the town's name to Borden's Town. He started a packet line from Philadelphia to Bordentown, where travelers would stop to rest and then proceed on Borden's stage line to Perth Amboy, where they would make their connections to New York."
Bordentown Regional School District 2016 Report Card NarrativeArchived December 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 27, 2017. "Bordentown Regional School District is a vibrant learning community, proudly serving the communities of Fieldsboro, Bordentown City and Bordentown Township.... In addition to the three aforementioned communities, Bordentown Regional High School also welcomes students from New Hanover into its ninth-twelfth grade population."
Staff. "Clara Barton started first free public school in N.J.", Courier-Post, January 11, 2000. Accessed June 6, 2011. "Clara Barton, most famous for founding the American Red Cross, also was noted for her significant contributions to education when she lived in Bordentown..."
Gamble, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, United States Navy. Accessed November 21, 2013. "Lt. Peter Gamble, was born in Bordentown, N.J.; appointed midshipman 16 January 1809; served on Macdonough's flagship Saratoga in the Battle of Lake Champlain, being killed in action while in the act of sighting his gun 11 September 1814. Macdonough deplored his loss and commended his gallantry in action."
Bohlin, Virginia. "Their talents demanded a canvas", The Boston Globe, February 28, 2010. Accessed June 6, 2011. "Finally in 1866 after years of temporary residences the Waterses settled in Bordentown N.J. where she opened a studio and began painting landscapes."
Staff. "She Modeled Portraits In Wax", The Christian Science Monitor, November 15, 1945. Accessed June 6, 2011. "ONE OF the most eccentric and interesting characters in early American art was Patience Lovell, born in 1725 at Bordentown, New Jersey. She acquired a wide reputation for clever portraits modeled in wax. Several examples of her work in this perishable medium have survived. She married in 1748 Joseph Wright, and it is as Patience Wright that she is generally known."
