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Many of the County Links on the left will keep you specifically in Mercer County and the Delaware River Region of NJ. We add new listings and links on a regular basis.
Mercer county is home to Princeton University, founded in 1746 by a royal charter. In 1783 the Continental Congress met in Princeton's Nassau Hall after mutinous American soldiers drove its members from Philadelphia. Nassau Hall also served as a barracks and hospital during the Revolutionary War.
Perhaps not many are aware that Trenton in the middle 1780’s was seriously considered for the capital of the United .States and indeed came very nearly being chosen as such, finally yielding the distinction to the projected city on the Potomac as the result of political maneuvering and the expressed desire of Washington to secure that distinction for his own home land.
John Fitch, a citizen of Trenton, the inventor of steam navigation and the first to make a practical test of its utility, backed by Trenton capital had in 1790 so far perfected his vessel that it successfully plied the waters of the Delaware and conveyed passengers between Trenton and Philadelphia. This was seventeen years before Robert Fulton with the Claremont did likewise on the Hudson.
Mercer County was created in 1838 from portions of Burlington, Hunterdon, Middlesex, and Somerset Counties. It is situated in the west-central portion of the state along the Delaware River and it has a land area of 228 square miles. Mercer County has a population of 325,824. The western part of the county is dominated by greater metropolitan Trenton, the political heart of the state serving both as the county seat and the capital of New Jersey.
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