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From D&R Canal Watch

General George Washington lived in Somerville's Wallace House for  six months during the Middlebrook Cantonment of the American Revolution.  At the turn of the last century, Somerville, the county seat, was a very  contemporary town. Main Street was an avenue of commerce, lined with  stores, services, and entertainment. In 1900 the town boasted three  newspapers, a major shopping district, and lots of entertainment.  People traveled from neighboring towns on the trolleys, and train  service linked Somerville to New York, Trenton, Philadelphia, and more  distant points.  The municipality was part of Bridgewater Township until 1909, when  Somerville became an independent borough.  The town celebrated its Centennial in 2009. National Register sites in the borough include the Somerset County Court House; the Wallace House;  the Old Dutch Parsonage; St. John's Episcopal Church and rectory; the Exempt Firemen's Museum, the Daniel Robert Mansion, now the borough hall, and J. Harper Smith mansion.  D&R Canal WaTch  Our Mission: To protect, maintain, and promote  the recreational, historical, aesthetic, and environmental  qualities of the Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park  and its environs, to assist and to support regional, state,  local, and private enterprise efforts that contribute to this goal,  and to investigate the restoration of the canal to through navigation. ,

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