Spruce Run, New Jersey

Populated place in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, US

Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States

40°42′31″N 74°55′20″W / 40.70861°N 74.92222°W / 40.70861; -74.92222^[1]Country

United StatesState

New JerseyCounty Hunterdon Township LebanonElevation

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715 ft (218 m)GNIS feature ID883456^[1]

Spruce Run is an unincorporated community located along County Route 628 (Hill Road) and Spruce Run Road within Lebanon Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.^[2] It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Glen Gardner.^[3]

History

A school house was built here in 1766. Subsequent ones were built in 1825 and 1874.^[4] In 1800, the Lutheran and Reformed congregations built a union church.^[5] The current Spruce Run Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church was built in 1870.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Spruce Run". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ "Hunterdon County Route 628 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. p. 1.
^ ^a ^b Snell, James P. (1881). "Spruce Run Lutheran Church". History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey. Everts & Peck. pp. 452–453.
^ Snell (1881), p. 454.
^ Chambers, Theodore Frelinghuysen (1895). "Spruce Run Lutheran Church". The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies. Dover Printing Company. pp. 221–222.