Oldwick, New Jersey
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Oldwick was formerly known as New Germantown. It has a mixture of Victorian, Federal, New England and Georgian style homes, and is protected by historic legislation. Historic sites within Oldwick include the Kline Farmhouse and the Oldwick Historic District.
Zion Lutheran Church in Oldwick was the oldest Lutheran parish in New Jersey.[6][7]
Oldwick is the corporate headquarters of the A. M. Best rating agency, and is the location of Mane Stream, formerly the Somerset Hills Handicapped Riding Center for adaptive riding and equine assisted therapy.
On April 5, 2024, Oldwick, alongside Lebanon and Tewksbury Township, became epicenters of the 2024 New Jersey earthquake, a rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake that shook much of the Northeast United States.[8]
Demographics
As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 445.[9] <templatestyles src="US Census population/styles.css"/>
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Notable people
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- Lawrence R. Hafstad (1904–1993), electrical engineer and physicist notable for his pioneering work on nuclear reactors.[11]
- Frederica von Stade (born 1945), opera singer.[12]
- George David Weiss (1921–2010), songwriter and former President of the Songwriters Guild of America.[13]
- Kate Whitman Annis (born c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".), general manager of the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League.[14]
Gallery
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Oldwick (then "New Germantown"), 1900
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Oldwick General Store
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House
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Donkeys on a farm
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Church now an antique store
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Street scene
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References
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- ↑ State of New Jersey Census Designated Places - BVP20 - Data as of January 1, 2020, United States Census Bureau. Accessed January 1, 2023.
- ↑ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed June 9, 2016.
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- ↑ Census of Population and Housing, United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 1, 2023.
- ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang. "Lawrence R. Hafstad Dies at 89; Helped to Develop Nuclear Power", The New York Times, October 22, 1993. Accessed February 7, 2023. "Dr. Lawrence Randolph Hafstad, a physicist who played an important role in the development of nuclear power plants, died on Oct. 12 at his home in Oldwick, N.J."
- ↑ Abrams, Bernie. "Native daughter comes home", New Jersey Hills, June 11, 2007. Accessed May 1, 2022. "Her roots, she admits, run very deep in the area though she now lives in California. She grew up in the Oldwick section of Tewksbury Township where, at the Country Day School, her teacher Miss Noling encouraged von Stade's vocal development in performing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas."
- ↑ Fox, Margalit. "George David Weiss, Writer of Hit Pop Songs, Dies at 89", The New York Times, August 23, 2010. Accessed August 23, 2010.
- ↑ "Like mother, like daughter - Kate Whitman enters Somerset County freeholder contest", New Jersey Hills, January 31, 2017. Accessed November 19, 2020. "Whitman grew up in Far Hills, later moving to the Oldwick section of Tewksbury Township when her parents took over her maternal grandparents' farm."
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