Bordentown, New Jersey

For the township, see Bordentown Township, New Jersey.

Bordentown is a city in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 3,993,^[10] an increase of 69 (+1.8%) from the 2010 census count of 3,924,^[19][20] which in turn reflected a decline of 45 (−1.1%) from the 3,969 counted in the 2000 census.^[21]

Bordentown, New Jersey
City
Clara Barton School
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Coordinates: 40°08′59″N 74°42′28″W / 40.149693°N 74.707679°W / 40.149693; -74.707679^[1]^[2]
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Burlington
Settled	1682
Incorporated	December 9, 1825 (as borough)
Reincorporated	April 3, 1867 (as city)
Named for	Joseph Borden
Government ^[7]
• Type	Walsh Act
• Body	Board of Commissioners
• Mayor	Jennifer L. Sciortino (term ends May 13, 2025)^[3]^[4]
• Administrator	Margaret M. Peak^[3]^[5]
• Municipal clerk	Grace I. Archer^[3]^[6]
Area ^[8]
• Total	0.97 sq mi (2.52 km^2)
• Land	0.94 sq mi (2.42 km^2)
• Water	0.04 sq mi (0.10 km^2)  4.02%
• Rank	504th of 565 in state 36th of 40 in county^[1]
Elevation ^[9]	49 ft (15 m)
Population  (2020)^[10]
• Total	3,993
• Estimate  (2022)^[11]	4,014
• Rank	414th of 565 in state 31st of 40 in county^[12]
• Density	4,272.7/sq mi (1,649.7/km^2)
• Rank	145th of 565 in state 4th of 40 in county^[12]
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT))
ZIP Code	08505^[13]^[14]
Area code(s)	609 exchanges: 291, 298, 324, 424^[15]
FIPS code	3400506670^[1]^[16]^[17]
GNIS feature ID	0885165^[1]^[18]
Website	www.cityofbordentown.com

Bordentown is located at the confluence of the Delaware River, Blacks Creek, and Crosswicks Creek. The latter is the border between Burlington and Mercer counties. Bordentown is the northernmost municipality in New Jersey that is a part of the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley.^[22] It is approximately one-third the distance between Center City, Philadelphia and Midtown Manhattan, located 5.8 miles (9.3 km) south of the state capital Trenton, 27 miles (43 km) northeast of Center City Philadelphia, and 54 miles (87 km) southwest of New York City.

Bordentown's first recorded European settlement was made in 1682 in what became known as Farnsworth's Landing and, after 1717, the town that had developed in the Provence of New Jersey was renamed to Borden's Town. Following the revolution and the establishment of the New Jersey state government, Bordentown was incorporated with a borough government form by an act of its legislature on December 9, 1825, from portions within Chesterfield Township. It was reincorporated with a city government form on April 3, 1867, and it was separated from Chesterfield Township about 1877.^[23]

History

Thomas Farnsworth, an English Quaker, was credited with being the first European settler in the Bordentown area in 1682, when he moved his family up river from Burlington. He made a new home on the windswept bluff overlooking the broad bend in the Delaware River. The Farnsworth's cabin was situated near the northwest corner of Park Street and Prince Street, perhaps where an 1883 frame house now stands. "Farnsworth Landing" soon became the center of trade for the region.^[24] Farnsworth is also the namesake of one of Bordentown's main streets, Farnsworth Avenue.

Joseph Borden, for whom the city is named,^[25][26] arrived in 1717, and by May 1740 founded a transportation system to carry people and freight between New York City and Philadelphia. This exploited Bordentown's natural location as the point on the Delaware River that provided the shortest overland route to Perth Amboy, from which cargo and people could be ferried to New York City.^[27]

By 1776, Bordentown was full of revolutionaries. Patience Lovell Wright, America's first female sculptor, was creating wax busts in King George's court in England. Later, however, Bordentown became a rabble-rousing hotbed. In addition to Joseph Borden's son (also named Joseph Borden), who became a colonel during the war, patriots Francis Hopkinson (a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence), Colonel Kirkbride, Colonel Oakey Hoagland, and Thomas Paine resided in the area. Due to their well-published activity in Bordentown, the British retaliated. Hessians occupied the town in 1776, and the British pillaged and razed the town during May and June 1778.^[28]

In August 1831, master mechanic Isaac Dripps of Bordentown re-assembled (without blueprints or instructions) the locomotive John Bull (originally called "The Stevens") in just 10 days. It was built by Robert Stephenson and Company, in England, and was imported into Philadelphia by the Camden and Amboy Railroad. The next year it started limited service, and the year after that regular service, to become one of the first successful locomotives in the United States. The John Bull is preserved at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.^[29]

Another notable resident of Bordentown is Clara Barton, who started the first free public school in New Jersey in 1852. Barton later founded the American Red Cross.^[30] A recreation of her schoolhouse stands at the corner of Crosswicks and Burlington streets.^[31]

In 1866, Susan Waters moved into what is now one of the larger properties on Mary Street. This was a base from which she taught and produced over 50 of her works, many of which are painting of animals in natural settings and pastoral scenes. She was also an early photographer. In 1876 she was asked to exhibit several of her works at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.^[32]

In 1881, Rev. William Bowen purchased the old Spring Villa Female Seminary building (built on land purchased from the Bonapartes in 1837) and reopened it as the Bordentown Military Institute. In 1886, African-American Rev. Walter A. Rice established a private school for African-American children, the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, in a two-story house at 60 West Street, which later moved to Walnut Street on the banks of the Delaware, and became a public school in 1894 under Jim Crow laws. The school, which was known as the Bordentown School, came to have a 400-acre (1.6 km²), 30-building campus with two farms, a vocational/ technical orientation, and a college preparatory program.^[33] The Bordentown School operated from 1894 to 1955.

In 1909, the religious order Poor Clares established a convent in the former Motherhouse of the Sisters of Mercy on Crosswicks Street. The building still stands and is used as an assisted living community called The Clare Estate. The Order of Poor Clares moved to a new facility outside Bordentown City.^[34]

Joseph Bonaparte

 

Former Bonaparte mansion, before 1923

 

Original entrance of Bonaparte tunnel, before 1923

Several years after the banishing of his family from France in 1816, arriving under vigilant disguise as the Count de Survilliers, Joseph Bonaparte,^[35] former King of Naples and Spain and brother to Napoleon I of France, purchased the Point Breeze Estate near Bordentown from American revolutionary, Stephen Sayre.^[36] He lived there for 17 years, entertaining guests of great fame such as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and the future 6th U.S. President, John Quincy Adams. The residents of Bordentown nicknamed the Count, "The Good Mr. Bonaparte" (Good to distinguish him from his younger brother). He built a lake near the mouth of Crosswicks Creek that was about 200 yards (200 m) wide and 1⁄2 mile (800 m) long. On the bluff above it he built a new home, "Point Breeze".^[37] The current Divine Word Mission occupies its former site along Park Street.^[38]

Today only vestiges of the Bonaparte estate remain. Much of it is the remains of a formerly Italinate building remodeled in English Georgian Revival style in 1924 for Harris Hammon, who purchased the estate at Point Breeze as built in 1850 by Henry Becket, a British consul in Philadelphia. In addition to the rubble of this mansion and some hedges of its elaborate gardens, only the original tunnel to the river (broken through in several places) and the house of Bonaparte's secretary remain. Many descendants of Joachim Murat, King of Naples and brother in law of the Bonapartes executed in 1815, also were born or lived in Bordentown, having followed their uncle Joseph there. After the Bonaparte dynasty was restored by Napoleon III, they moved back to France and were recognized as princes.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total area of 0.97 square miles (2.52 km²), including 0.93 square miles (2.42 km²) of land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km²) of water (4.02%).^[1][2]

The City of Bordentown is surrounded on three sides by Bordentown Township and on the western side by the juncture of the Delaware River and Crosswicks Creek, which is the border with Hamilton Township in Mercer County.^[39][40][41] It is bounded on the east by U.S. Route 130 and U.S. Route 206, on the south by Black's Creek and Interstate 295, and on the north by the Mile Hollow Run. Across the Delaware River is Falls Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Demographics

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1850	2,725		—
1860	1,130		−58.5%
1880	4,258		—
1890	4,232		−0.6%
1900	4,110		−2.9%
1910	4,250		3.4%
1920	4,371		2.8%
1930	4,405		0.8%
1940	4,223		−4.1%
1950	5,497		30.2%
1960	4,974		−9.5%
1970	4,490		−9.7%
1980	4,441		−1.1%
1990	4,341		−2.3%
2000	3,969		−8.6%
2010	3,924		−1.1%
2020	3,993		1.8%
2022 (est.)	4,014	^[11]	0.5%
Population sources: 1850–2000^[42] 1850–1920^[43] 1850–1870^[44] 1850^[45] 1870^[46] 1880–1890^[47] 1890–1910^[48] 1910–1930^[49] 1940–2000^[50] 2000^[51]^[52] 2010^[19]^[20] 2020^[10]

2010 census

The 2010 United States census counted 3,924 people, 1,859 households, and 922 families in the city. The population density was 4,222.3 per square mile (1,630.2/km²). There were 2,014 housing units at an average density of 2,167.1 per square mile (836.7/km²). The racial makeup was 83.51% (3,277) White, 10.12% (397) Black or African American, 0.20% (8) Native American, 2.73% (107) Asian, 0.03% (1) Pacific Islander, 1.17% (46) from other races, and 2.24% (88) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.81% (228) of the population.^[19]

Of the 1,859 households, 21.3% had children under the age of 18; 32.4% were married couples living together; 13.5% had a female householder with no husband present and 50.4% were non-families. Of all households, 41.3% were made up of individuals and 14.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.10 and the average family size was 2.91.^[19]

18.4% of the population were under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 29.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40.3 years. For every 100 females, the population had 91.1 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 87.1 males.^[19]

The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $66,557 (with a margin of error of +/− $9,567) and the median family income was $90,165 (+/− $11,644). Males had a median income of $52,652 (+/− $10,201) versus $48,906 (+/− $9,108) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $36,814 (+/− $3,714). About 1.7% of families and 3.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 12.1% of those age 65 or over.^[53]

2000 census

As of the 2000 United States census^[16] there were 3,969 people, 1,757 households, and 989 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,303.6 inhabitants per square mile (1,661.6/km²). There were 1,884 housing units at an average density of 2,042.8 per square mile (788.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 81.25% White, 13.08% African American, 0.05% Native American, 1.91% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.81% from other races, and 2.87% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.82% of the population.^[51][52]

There were 1,757 households, out of which 24.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 13.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.7% were non-families. 35.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.93.^[51][52]

In the city the population was spread out, with 20.9% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 34.2% from 25 to 44, 23.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.5 males.^[51][52]

The median income for a household in the city was $47,279, and the median income for a family was $59,872. Males had a median income of $39,909 versus $31,780 for females. The per capita income for the city was $25,882. About 4.0% of families and 6.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.8% of those under age 18 and 10.9% of those age 65 or over.^[51][52]

Economy

Downtown Bordentown has many book, record and antique stores lining its streets, with Italian and American restaurants. The restaurants are primarily Italian, but there are also restaurants and diners that specialize in American food, Chinese food, and more recently Japanese and Latin-American food.^[54]

Government

Local government

 

Bordentown City Hall in 2023

Bordentown has been governed under the Walsh Act since 1913. The city is one of 30 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this commission form of government.^[55] The governing body is comprised of three commissioners, one of whom is selected to serve as Mayor. Each commissioner is assigned a specific department to oversee during their term in office. Members are elected at-large to four-year concurrent terms of office on a non-partisan basis as part of the May municipal election.^[7][56][57]

As of 2023^[update], Bordentown's commissioners are Mayor Jennifer L. Sciortino (Director of Revenue and Finance), Deputy Mayor Joe Myers (Director of Public Property, Streets and Water) and Commissioner James L. Lynch Jr. (Director of Public Safety and Affairs), all serving terms of office that end on May 13, 2025.^[3][58]

The city's municipal complex is located on the site of the Point Breeze estate. Part of the site was purchased by the city in 2020 from the Divine Word Missionaries who occupied the 60-acre (24-hectare) site previously. The repurposed building opened in August 2022. The former city hall was located at 324 Farnsworth Avenue.^[59][60]

Emergency services

Hope Hose Humane Fire Company 1 dates its founding to 1767, making it the nation's second-oldest volunteer fire service, having taken its current name from the combination in 1976 of the Hope Hose and the Humane fire companies.^[61]

Consolidated Fire Association dates back to the 1966 merger of three separate volunteer fire companies.^[62]

Environmental Commission

The Bordentown City Environmental Commission (BCEC) is a volunteer group of Bordentown City residents. The Commission is an official body, and its chair answers to the Mayor. The BCEC advises local officials and the Planning Board regarding environmental issues and is a watchdog for environmental problems and opportunities. It is designed to inform elected officials and the public, serve on committees, research issues, develop educational programs and advocate for sound environmental policies. Local issues include preservation of open space, promoting walking and bicycling trails and the River Line, protection of wetlands and water quality, recycling and energy conservation, and environmental education.^[63]

The BCEC's most current efforts have focuses upon a bicycle and pedestrian circulation study, the City's open space plan, and the development of a set of local greenways (Thorntown and Black Creek).

State government facilities

The New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission operates two juvenile detention centers in the Johnstone Campus in Bordentown: Johnstone Campus Juvenile Female Secure Care and Intake Facility, which houses the state's adjudicated girls,^[64] and Juvenile Medium Security Facility-North Compound (JMSF-N) and the Juvenile Medium Security Facility-South Compound (JMSF-S) for boys.^[65]

Federal, state and county representation

Bordentown City is located in the 3rd Congressional District^[66] and is part of New Jersey's 7th state legislative district.^[67][68][69] Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 census, Bordentown City had been in the 30th state legislative district.^[70] Prior to the 2010 Census, Bordentown City had been part of the 4th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.^[70]

For the 118th United States Congress, New Jersey's 3rd congressional district is represented by Andy Kim (D, Moorestown).^[71] New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker (Newark, term ends 2027)^[72] and Bob Menendez (Englewood Cliffs, term ends 2025).^[73][74]

For the 2024-2025 session, the 7th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Troy Singleton (D, Palmyra) and in the General Assembly by Herb Conaway (D, Moorestown) and Carol A. Murphy (D, Mount Laurel).^[75]

Burlington County is governed by a Board of County Commissioners comprised of five members who are chosen at-large in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year; at an annual reorganization meeting, the board selects a director and deputy director from among its members to serve a one-year term.^[76] As of 2024^[update], Burlington County's Commissioners are: Director Felicia Hopson (D, Willingboro Township, 2024),^[77] Tom Pullion (D, Edgewater Park, 2026),^[78] Allison Eckel (D, Medford, 2025),^[79] Deputy Director Daniel J. O'Connell (D, Delran Township, 2024)^[80] and Balvir Singh (D, Burlington Township, 2026).^{[81][76][82][83][84][85]}

Burlington County's Constitutional Officers are: Clerk Joanne Schwartz (D, Southampton Township, 2028)^[86][87] Sheriff James H. Kostoplis (D, Bordentown, 2025)^[88][89] and Surrogate Brian J. Carlin (D, Burlington Township, 2026).^[90][91]

Politics

As of March 2011, there were a total of 2,493 registered voters in Bordentown City, of which 906 (36.3% vs. 33.3% countywide) were registered as Democrats, 500 (20.1% vs. 23.9%) were registered as Republicans and 1,085 (43.5% vs. 42.8%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 2 voters registered as either Libertarians or Greens.^[92] Among the city's 2010 Census population, 63.5% (vs. 61.7% in Burlington County) were registered to vote, including 77.9% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 80.3% countywide).^[92][93]

In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 1,298 votes (66.4% vs. 58.1% countywide), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 605 votes (31.0% vs. 40.2%) and other candidates with 34 votes (1.7% vs. 1.0%), among the 1,954 ballots cast by the city's 2,634 registered voters, for a turnout of 74.2% (vs. 74.5% in Burlington County).^[94][95] In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 1,305 votes (64.8% vs. 58.4% countywide), ahead of Republican John McCain with 669 votes (33.2% vs. 39.9%) and other candidates with 25 votes (1.2% vs. 1.0%), among the 2,015 ballots cast by the city's 2,543 registered voters, for a turnout of 79.2% (vs. 80.0% in Burlington County).^[96] In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 1,151 votes (58.7% vs. 52.9% countywide), ahead of Republican George W. Bush with 778 votes (39.7% vs. 46.0%) and other candidates with 17 votes (0.9% vs. 0.8%), among the 1,961 ballots cast by the city's 2,488 registered voters, for a turnout of 78.8% (vs. 78.8% in the whole county).^[97]

In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 661 votes (51.0% vs. 61.4% countywide), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 579 votes (44.7% vs. 35.8%) and other candidates with 30 votes (2.3% vs. 1.2%), among the 1,295 ballots cast by the city's 2,658 registered voters, yielding a 48.7% turnout (vs. 44.5% in the county).^[98][99] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 714 ballots cast (50.1% vs. 44.5% countywide), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 553 votes (38.8% vs. 47.7%), Independent Chris Daggett with 86 votes (6.0% vs. 4.8%) and other candidates with 54 votes (3.8% vs. 1.2%), among the 1,424 ballots cast by the city's 2,567 registered voters, yielding a 55.5% turnout (vs. 44.9% in the county).^[100]

Education

Public schools

Public school students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades attend the schools of the Bordentown Regional School District, which serves students from Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough.^[101][102] As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of five schools, had an enrollment of 2,373 students and 194.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1.^[103] Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[104]) are Clara Barton Elementary School^[105] with 235 students in grades K–2 (generally serves Bordentown City and the Holloway Meadows section of Bordentown Township), Peter Muschal Elementary School^[106] with 522 students in grades Pre-K–5 (generally serves remainder of Bordentown Township and the Borough of Fieldsboro), MacFarland Intermediate School^[107] with 243 students in grades 3–5, Bordentown Regional Middle School^[108] with 576 students in grades 6–8 and Bordentown Regional High School^[109] with 766 students in grades 9–12.^{[110][111][112]} The district's board of education is comprised of nine members, who are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year.^[113][114] The board's nine seats are allocated based on the population of the constituent municipalities, with three seats assigned to Bordentown City.^[115]

The New Hanover Township School District, consisting of New Hanover Township (including its Cookstown area) and Wrightstown Borough, sends students to Bordentown Regional High School on a tuition basis for ninth through twelfth grades as part of a sending/receiving relationship that has been in place since the 1960s, with about 50 students from the New Hanover district being sent to the high school.^[116][117] As of 2011, the New Hanover district was considering expansion of its relationship to send students to Bordentown for middle school for grades 6–8.^[118]

Students from Bordentown, and from all of Burlington County, are eligible to attend the Burlington County Institute of Technology, a countywide public school district that serves the vocational and technical education needs of students at the high school and post-secondary level at its campuses in Medford and Westampton Township.^[119]

Private schools

Saint Mary School was a Catholic school serving students in Pre-K–8, that operated for over 100 years under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton.^[120] The school closed its doors in June 2013 due to the school's financial challenges in the face of enrollment that was half of the 220 students needed to remain financially viable.^[121]

The Bordentown Military Institute was located in the city from 1881 to 1972.^[122][123] The Society of the Divine Word fathers operated a minor seminary in Bordentown from 1947 to 1983.^[124] One of its more notable alumni Douglas Palmer was the four-term mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, leaving office in 2009.^[125]

Transportation

 

U.S. Route 130 / U.S. Route 206 at County Route 528 in Bordentown

Roads and highways

As of May 2010^[update], the city had a total of 12.73 miles (20.49 km) of roadways, of which 10.09 miles (16.24 km) were maintained by the municipality, 2.25 miles (3.62 km) by Burlington County and 0.39 miles (0.63 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.^[126]

U.S. Route 130 and U.S. Route 206 run through very briefly and intersect at County Route 528 in the city.^[127] In addition to CR 528's western terminus in Bordentown, County Route 545 has its northern terminus in the city. The New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) passes through neighboring Bordentown Township with access at interchange 7 to U.S. Route 206, which is signed as Bordentown-Trenton.^[128] Interstate 295 also passes through Bordentown Township and has two interchanges that take travelers into Bordentown: exit 56 and exit 57.

Public transportation

The Bordentown station at Park Street^[129] offers service between the Trenton Rail Station in Trenton and the Walter Rand Transportation Center (and other stations) in Camden, on NJ Transit's River Line Light rail system.^[130]

NJ Transit provides bus service in the township between Trenton and Philadelphia on the 409 route.^[131][132]

Religion

Bordentown City's one square mile is home to more than 10 houses of worship, including: American Presbyterian Church, B'nai Abraham Synagogue, Christ Episcopal Church, Dorothea Dix Unitarian Universalist Community, Ebenezer Full Gospel Community Church, First Baptist Church of Bordentown, First Presbyterian Church, Mount Zion AME Church, Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Shiloh Baptist Church, Trinity United Methodist Church and Union Baptist Church.^[133][134]

Points of interest

The city has become a destination for weekend dining as well as for the casual perusal of its book and record stores, historical sites and art galleries. The active downtown business association sponsors an annual Iris Festival & Art Show in early May, an annual Street Fair in mid- to late May, and an annual Cranberry Festival in early October. The Bordentown Historical Society sponsors events, such as the Holiday House Tour and Peach Social.^[135]

The Historical Society hosts exhibits at the Bordentown Friends Meeting House each year, and the 2022 exhibition consists of artifacts collected from Joseph Bonaparte^[136] which led to a visit from Philippe Étienne, the ambassador of France to the United States.^[136]

Crosswicks Creek Site III, an archaeological site from the American Revolutionary War era, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 for its significance in military and maritime history.^[137]

Point Breeze, the former estate of Joseph Bonaparte, was added to the NRHP in 1997 for its significance in architecture, landscape architecture, and politics/government.^[138]

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  Crosswicks Creek Site III
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  Point Breeze

Notable people

See also: Category:People from Bordentown, New Jersey

 

This statue on Prince Street honors Thomas Paine, who periodically lived in Bordentown

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Bordentown include:

• Burgiss Allison (1753–1827), Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives from 1816–1820^[139]
• Ricardo Almeida (born 1976), Brazilian-American mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu grappler^[140]
• Al Aronowitz (1928–2005), rock journalist who claimed that Bob Dylan wrote his famous "Mr. Tambourine Man" in Aronowitz's former Berkeley Heights home^[141]
• Clara Barton (1821–1912), in 1852 started the first free public school in New Jersey and later founded the American Red Cross^[142]
• Charlotte Bonaparte (1802–1839), artist and daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, whose works included a series of landscape paintings of New Jersey scenes^[143]
• Joseph Bonaparte (1768–1844), King of Naples and Sicily, King of Spain and the Indies and brother to Napoleon I of France^[144]
• Denise Borino-Quinn (1964–2010), actress who played the role of Ginny Sacramoni, the wife of New York mob boss Johnny Sack in The Sopranos^[145]
• Herb Conaway (born 1963), member of the New Jersey General Assembly who has represented the 7th Legislative District since 1988^[146]
• Erica Dambach (born 1975), head coach of Penn State Nittany Lions women's soccer team^[147]
• Robert Duncan (born 1948), Anglican bishop who was the first primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), serving from June 2009 to June 2014^[148]
• Dionne Farris (born 1968), singer-songwriter best known for her work as a vocalist with the hip-hop group Arrested Development^[149]
• Samuel C. Forker (1821–1900), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1871–1873^[150]
• Peter Gamble (1793–1814), midshipman who was killed in action at the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812^[151]
• Eric Gibbons (born 1966), artist and owner of The Firehouse Gallery of Bordentown and founder of Firehouse Publications^[152]
• Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909), poet, author and editor of The Century Magazine^[153]
• Eric Hamilton (born 1953), retired American football coach, who was head football coach at The College of New Jersey from 1977 through 2012^[154]
• Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791), author who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence^[155]
• Joseph Mailliard (1873–1945), ornithologist who served as a curator of ornithology at the California Academy of Sciences^[156]
• Joachim, 4th Prince Murat (1834–1901), Major-General in the French Army^[157]
• Gia Maione (1941–2013), singer who was the wife of singer Louis Prima^[158]
• Joseph R. Malone (born 1949), former member of the New Jersey General Assembly who served as Bordentown's mayor from 1973 to 1993 and 2013 to 2017^[159]
• Edward McCall (1790–1853), officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 who was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal^[160]
• Joseph Menna (born 1974), sculptor^[161]
• Rob Novak (born 1986), runner who specialized in the 800 meters^[162]
• Thomas Paine (1737–1809), American and French Revolution inspiration and author of many works, including "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man"^[155]
• Chris Prynoski (born 1971), animator^[163]
• Pete Reed (1989–2023), aid worker known for co-founding the medical humanitarian aid organization Global Response Medicine^[164]
• Joshua Shaw (1776–1860), English-American artist and inventor^[165]
• Harry W. Shipps (1926–2016), eighth Bishop of Georgia.^[166]
• Charles Stewart (1778–1869), United States Navy admiral, resided in Bordentown at the time of his death in 1869^[167]
• Ishod Wair (born 1991), professional skateboarder who was Thrasher magazine's Skater of the Year 2013^{[168][169][170]}
• Susan Waters (1823–1900), painter and photographer, who was active in the suffrage movement and in animal rights causes^[171]
• Joseph Wright (1756–1793), artist and engraver who is credited as the designer of the Liberty Cap Large Cent^[172]
• Patience Wright (1725–1786), America's first native-born sculptor^[173]
• Joshua M. Zeitz (born 1974), historian and writer who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008 and served as a policy adviser to the Corzine Administration^[174]
• August Zeller (1863–1918), sculptor who was a student of Thomas Eakins and Auguste Rodin^[175]

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159. 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."
160. 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."
161. Mucha, Peter "Carving heroes and villains from virtual clay; Joseph Menna has worked on everything from Jefferson to Batman to the world's biggest statue.", March 18, 2014. Accessed July 22, 2020. "Menna met his wife at the Steiglitz academy. Julianna Menna, a painter with her own fantasy-world style, specializes in portraying grotesque characters in ornate dress.... They’re raising three children in Bordentown, Burlington County."
162. 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."
163. Furman, T.J. "Bordentown native creates MTV cartoon: Cable network's newest show to premiere Tuesday", Princeton Packet, July 31, 1999. Accessed December 11, 2007.
164. "Gov. Phil Murphy remembers New Jersey native Pete Reed, who was killed while helping with evacuations in Ukraine", WCBS-TV, February 4, 2023. Accessed June 11, 2023. "United States Marine Corps veteran Pete Reed, 33, died after a missile hit his vehicle Thursday. He was a native of Bordentown in Burlington County."
165. Biggs Museum of American Art. 150 Years of Philadelphia Painters and Paintings: Selections from the Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art, p. 26. Library Company of Philadelphia, 1999. ISBN 9781893287013. Accessed November 15, 2018. "Shaw emigrated to the United States in 1817, settled his family in Philadelphia by 1819, and mainly lived there until moving to Bordentown, New Jersey, by 1843."
166. The Episcopacy of the Right Reverend Harry Woolston Shipps Eighth Bishop of Georgia, Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. Accessed September 11, 2022. "Bishop Shipps, born 28 January 1926, is a native of Bordentown, New Jersey."
167. 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."
168. Ishod Wair, Street League Skateboarding. Accessed September 3, 2015.
169. Comegno, Carol. "South Jersey native flying high in skate world; Bordentown City-raised skateboarder made good Ishod Wair will compete in a major Street League Skateboarding competition in Newark.", Courier-Post, August 21, 2015. Accessed September 3, 2015. "Ishod Wair gravitated toward basketball like most of his neighborhood friends growing up in Bordentown — and he was getting good at it."
170. 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."
171. 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."
172. Joseph Wright (1756 - 1793) August 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Art & Architecture of New Jersey, Stockton University. Accessed October 23, 2013. "Wright was born in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1756."
173. 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."
174. 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."
175. August Zeller, Antiques & Fine Art Magazine. Accessed October 16, 2019. "August Zeller (American, 1863-1918) was born in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1863."

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