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Old Bridge Information
Old Bridge Township is a Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United
States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population
of 60,456.
Brownville (2000 census population of 2,660), Laurence Harbor (6,227), Madison
Park (6,929) and Old Bridge (22,833) are census-designated places and
unincorporated areas located within Old Bridge Township.
The Old Bridge Township Public Schools serve students in kindergarten through
twelfth grade. The district is comprised of twelve K-5 elementary schools ( M.
Scott Carpenter Elementary School, Cheesequake Elementary School, Leroy Gordon
Cooper Elementary School, Virgil I. Grissom Elementary School, James A. McDivitt
Elementary School, Madison Park Elementary School, Memorial Elementary School,
William A. Miller Elementary School, Walter M. Schirra Elementary School, Alan
B. Shepard Elementary School, Southwood Elementary School and Voorhees
Elementary School), Two Middle Schools serving grades 6-8 ( Jonas Salk Middle
School and Carl Sandburg Middle School) and Old Bridge High School for grades
9-12.
The first inhabitants of the area known as Old Bridge, were the Lenni Lenape
Native Americans. They, like many people today, migrated to the shore along the
Raritan each summer from their hunting grounds in the north.
When the English gained control from the Dutch in 1664, the state was divided
into two provinces, East Jersey and West Jersey. In 1682, the general assembly
of East Jersey defined the boundaries of Middlesex County as containing all
plantations on both sides of the Raritan River, as far as Cheesequake Harbor to
the east, then southwest to the Provincial line. This Southwest line is the
border of Monmouth and Middlesex Counties and the Township's southern border.
In 1684, South Amboy Township was formed. At that time, it covered an area that
now consists of the Townships of Monroe and Old Bridge and the Boroughs of
Sayreville and South Amboy.
The 42 square miles (109 km) that comprise the Township separated from South
Amboy in 1869, and was called Madison Township until 1975, when the name was
changed by referendum to the Township of Old Bridge.
The first settlers were John Warne, son of one of the original proprietors of
East Jersey, and John and Susannah Brown, who obtained a 1,000 acre (4 km) land
grant from King George II of Great Britain in 1737. A section of the Township
still carries the name Browntown.