STOCKTON PRALLSVILLE [Reading's Landing c.1705].kmz

STOCKTON / PRALLSVILLE [Reading's Landing c.1705]

References - see:
STOCKTON, NJ: 300 YEARS OF HISTORY by Iris Naylor
PRALLSVILLE MILLS & STOCKTON by Keith Strunk

Stockton
A ferry was in operation by the beginning of the 18th century when John Reading, a Quaker from Gloucester in the southwest part of New Jersey, acquired land here in 1703. The village was known chronologically by the following names:
Reading's Landing/Reading's Ferry - c.1703
Howell's Ferry - c.1731 [Daniel Howell, son-in-law]
Roberson's/Robinson's Ferry - 1771 [Joseph Roberson]
Howell's Ferry - c.1780s [Joseph Howell, grandson]
Mitchell's Ferry - c.1790s
Prallsville - late 1700-early1800
Centre Bridge - c.1813
Centre Bridge Station - c.1850s
Stockton - 1867
Revolutionary War: In July of 1777, General Stephen and his division came from their winter encampment in Morristown, and they, along with Lincoln's division crossed the Delaware on their way to Philadelphia.
The naming of Stockton: The confusion of ultimately having a railroad station called Centre Bridge and a Post Office called Stockton resulted in the railroad changing its name to Stockton in 1867. Named for Navy Commodore & U.S. Senator Robert Field Stockton, grandson of the signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Stockton was incorporated April 14, 1898 when it separated from Delaware Township.

Stockton Borough [includes Prallsville]
Field Name | Field Value
FID | 5
Shape | Polygon
MUN_LABEL | Stockton Borough
MUN | STOCKTON BORO
COUNTY | HUNTERDON
MUNCOUNTY | STOCKTON BORO HUNTERDON
POP2000 | 560
POP1990 | 629
POP1980 | 643
FIPSSTCO | 34019
FIPSCO | 19
FIPS | 70980
SSN | 1023
MUN_TYPE | Borough
SQ_MILES | 0.6

Floods

1905 fire
The worst fire in Stockton's history occurred on January 26, 1905 during a blizzard. It began in Davison's store and consumed ten buildings before it was contained.

area of fire [refine]

Stockton Historic District
Adjacent to Prallsville Industrial Historic District [Smith's Mills]. Often combined as one.

Key contributing

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Stockton & Prall Historic Districts
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STATUS: | Eligible
DIGISTAFF: | J. Hammond
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Stockton & Prallsville [combined]

Dwelling 1 Stockton Historic District
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ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Brookville Hollow Road
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Mill Control Gate
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NAME | Mill Control Gate
ADDRESS | NJ Route 29, Delaware River and Wickecheoke Creek
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HDNAME | Prallsville Industiral Historic District
HDINV_ID | 1629
HDSTATUS | Not assessed/Unkown
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DIGICODE | D-Paper notations on Orthophotos
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STATUS | Listed (HD)
DIGISTAFF | A. Stoll
DIGIPOST | 4
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S. Stover; Smith's Mill
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ADDRESS | NJ Route 29, Delaware River and Wickecheoke Creek
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DIGISTAFF | A. Stoll
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Mill Annex; Grain Silo
NAME | Mill Annex; Grain Silo
ADDRESS | NJ Route 29, Delaware River and Wickecheoke Creek
HDNAME | Prallsville Industrial Historic District
HDSTATUS | Contributing
DIGICODE | D-Paper notations on Orthophotos
STATUS | Listed (HD)
LOC_QUAL | Medium-Location/Boundary w/in vicinity, but approximately respresents cultural resource
BOUND_QUAL | Medium-Location/Boundary w/in vicinity, but approximately respresents cultural resource

Mill Outhouses (Stover Smith's Mill) (possibly demolished)
NAME | Mill Outhouses (Stover Smith's Mill) (possibly demolished)
ADDRESS | Delaware Raritan Feeder Canal
HDNAME | Prallsville Industrial Historic District
HDSTATUS | Contributing

Storage Building 1; Wagon Shed
NAME | Storage Building 1; Wagon Shed
ADDRESS | NJ ROute 29, Delaware River and Wickecheoke Creek

Storage Building No. 2; Lumber Shed
NAME | Storage Building No. 2; Lumber Shed

Garage (possibly demolished)
NAME | Garage (possibly demolished)
DIGICODE | G-Digital Parcels
LOC_QUAL | Low-Location/Boundary is completly approximate and may require ground-truthing for varification
BOUND_QUAL | Low-Location/Boundary is completly approximate and may require ground-truthing for varification

Weight Station; Scale
NAME | Weight Station; Scale
LOC_QUAL | High-Location/Boundary accurately represents cultural resource

Stone Store; Linseed Oil Mill
NAME | Stone Store; Linseed Oil Mill

Stone Outbuilding; Storage Building
NAME | Stone Outbuilding; Storage Building

Saw Mill; Warehouse
NAME | Saw Mill; Warehouse

Storage Building; Lumber Shed
NAME | Storage Building; Lumber Shed

Dwelling 51 Stockton Historic District
NAME | Dwelling 51 Stockton Historic District
ADDRESS | NJ 29 Stockton Borough
HDNAME | Stockton Historic District
HDSTATUS | Not assessed/Unkown
STATUS | Eligible (HD)
LOC_QUAL | High-Location/Boundary accurately represents cultural resource

Cooligan Stockton Inn
NAME | Cooligan Stockton Inn
ADDRESS | NJ 29 Stockton Borough
HDNAME | Stockton Historic District
HDSTATUS | Key contributing
STATUS | Eligible (HD)

Dwelling 50 Stockton Historic District
NAME | Dwelling 50 Stockton Historic District
ADDRESS | NJ 29 Stockton Borough
HDSTATUS | Not assessed/Unkown

Northridge-Woolverton Inn
NAME | Northridge-Woolverton Inn
ADDRESS | Woolverton Road, Stockton Borough
DIGICODE | G-Digital Parcels

Stone Structure
NAME | Stone Structure
BOUND_QUAL | Low-Location/Boundary is completly approximate and may require ground-truthing for varification

District No. 98 Schoolhouse
INV_ID | 4374
NAME | District No. 98 Schoolhouse
ADDRESS | 19 South Main Street
HDSTATUS | Key contributing
STATUS | Listed (Indv.)
BOUND_QUAL | High-Location/Boundary accurately represents cultural resource

Dwelling, Prallsville Industrial Historic District
NAME | Dwelling, Prallsville Industrial Historic District
ADDRESS | NJ Route 29 and Worman Road

Dwelling, Prallsville Industrial Historic District
NAME | Dwelling, Prallsville Industrial Historic District
ADDRESS | NJ Route 29, Delaware River and Wickecheokd Creek
BOUND_QUAL | High-Location/Boundary accurately represents cultural resource

Dwelling, Prallsville Industrial Historic District
NAME | Dwelling, Prallsville Industrial Historic District

ADDRESS | NJ 29, Stockton Borough

Prall House
NAME | Prall House

Prallsville Mills Site
NAME | Prallsville Mills Site
BOUND_QUAL | Low-Location/Boundary is completly approximate and may require ground-truthing for varification

Masonic Lodge
NAME | Masonic Lodge
ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Church Street, Stockton Borough

LOC_QUAL | Low-Location/Boundary is completly approximate and may require ground-truthing for varification

Barn 2 Stockton Historic District
NAME | Barn 2 Stockton Historic District

ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Church Street, Stockton Borough

Borough Hall Stockton Historic District
NAME | Borough Hall Stockton Historic District
ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Skeeter's Alley, Stockton Borough

Commercial 47 Stockton Historic District
NAME | Commercial 47 Stockton Historic District
ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Bridge Street, Stockton Borough

Baptist Church
NAME | Baptist Church
ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Route 523 Stockton Borough

ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Ferry Street Stockton Borough

Dwelling 39 Stockton Historic district
NAME | Dwelling 39 Stockton Historic district

Dwelling 59 Stockton Historic Distrit
NAME | Dwelling 59 Stockton Historic Distrit

ADDRESS | Route 523 Stockton Borough

ADDRESS | Route 523, Stockton Borough

ADDRESS | NJ 29 Stockton Broough

ADDRESS | Woolverton Road and Route 523, Stockton Borough

ADDRESS | Bridge Street Stockton Borough

Real Estate Agency Stockton Historic District
NAME | Real Estate Agency Stockton Historic District
ADDRESS | Bridge Street Stockton Borough

ADDRESS | Bridge Street, Stockton Borough

Railroad Station Stockton Historic District
NAME | Railroad Station Stockton Historic District
ADDRESS | Bridge Street and Railroad Avenue, Stockton Borough

Restaurant Stockton Historic District
NAME | Restaurant Stockton Historic District

ADDRESS | Bridge Street, Stockton Historic District

Former Hunterdon County Bank
NAME | Former Hunterdon County Bank
ADDRESS | Bridge Street Stockton Historic District

ADDRESS | Railroad Avenue, Stockton Historic District

ADDRESS | Railroad Avenue and Skeeter's Alley, Stockton Borough

ADDRESS | Railroad Avenue, Stockton Borough

ADDRESS | Railroad Avenure, Stockton Borough
LOC_QUAL | Low-Location/Boundary is completly approximate and may require ground-truthing for varification

Captain John Anderson Plantation and Burying Ground
NAME | Captain John Anderson Plantation and Burying Ground
ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Hilltop Drive, Stockton Borough
SURVEYNAME | [HPO Pending NR Files]

Modern Brick Garage Stockton Historic District
NAME | Modern Brick Garage Stockton Historic District
ADDRESS | NJ 29 Stockton Broough

ADDRESS | Nj 29 Stockton Borough

Stockton Presbyterian Church and Presbytery
NAME | Stockton Presbyterian Church and Presbytery
ADDRESS | NJ 29 Stockton Historic District

ADDRESS | NJ 29 Stockton Historic District

Dwelling, Prallsville Industrial Historic Disltrict
NAME | Dwelling, Prallsville Industrial Historic Disltrict

ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Woolverton Road, Stockton Borough

ADDRESS | NJ 29 and Ferry Street, Stockton Borough

St. Agnes' Church
NAME | St. Agnes' Church

Barn, Stockton Historic District
NAME | Barn, Stockton Historic District

Culvert
NAME | Culvert
ADDRESS | Grist Mill tail race culvert
SURVEYDATE | 6/1/1982
SURVEYNAME | Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Historic Structures Survey
SURVEY_ID | 7904
SURVEY_SHELFCD | MULT GB 191
HDNAME | Delaware and Raritan Canal Historic District
DIGISTAFF | J. Loiacono

Wickecheoke Creek Spillway
NAME | Wickecheoke Creek Spillway
ADDRESS | Wickecheoke Creek at D&R Canal
SURVEYDATE | 6/1/1982
SURVEYNAME | Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Historic Structures Survey
SURVEY_ID | 7904
SURVEY_SHELFCD | MULT GB 191
HDNAME | Delaware and Raritan Canal Historic District
DIGISTAFF | J. Loiacono

Bridge
NAME | Bridge
ADDRESS | Road over D&R Canal
SURVEYDATE | 6/1/1982
SURVEYNAME | Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Historic Structures Survey
SURVEY_ID | 7904
SURVEY_SHELFCD | MULT GB 191
HDNAME | Delaware and Raritan Canal Historic District
DIGISTAFF | J. Loiacono

Prallsville Lock
NAME | Prallsville Lock
ADDRESS | D&R Canal

Stockton Bridge
NAME | Stockton Bridge
ADDRESS | Bridge Street over D&R Canal
HDSTATUS | Non contributing

Railroad Bridge
NAME | Railroad Bridge
ADDRESS | Railroad over D&R Canal

2-story stone house
NAME | 2-story stone house
ADDRESS | D&R Canal
SURVEYNAME | Cultural Resources Investigations in connection with the Proposed Maintenance Dredging of the Raritan Canal, Prallsville Lock to Kingston Lock... Volume 2, Technical Data
SURVEY_SHELFCD | D&R D&RIV 8 c
DIGISTAFF | A. Chidley

Foundation
NAME | Foundation
ADDRESS | D&R Canal
SURVEYNAME | Cultural Resources Investigations in connection with the Proposed Maintenance Dredging of the Raritan Canal, Prallsville Lock to Kingston Lock... Volume 2, Technical Data
SURVEY_SHELFCD | D&R D&RIV 8 c
DIGISTAFF | A. Chidley

Buried Cable
NAME | Buried Cable
SURVEYNAME | Cultural Resources Investigations in connection with the Proposed Maintenance Dredging of the Raritan Canal, Prallsville Lock to Kingston Lock... Volume 2, Technical Data
SURVEY_SHELFCD | D&R D&RIV 8 c
DIGISTAFF | A. Chidley

Culvert
NAME | Culvert

Stone armor
NAME | Stone armor

Basin
NAME | Basin

Ferry House
NAME | Ferry House
ADDRESS | End of Ferry St.

Spoke factory and sawmill
NAME | Spoke factory and sawmill
ADDRESS | NW of Stockton Bridge

Foundation
NAME | Foundation
ADDRESS | Tax map block 120,000, lot 60,000

Bridgetender's House
NAME | Bridgetender's House
ADDRESS | Tax map block 60,000, lot 40,000

2-story stuccoed stone structure
NAME | 2-story stuccoed stone structure
ADDRESS | Tax map block 120,000, lot 70,000

Drain
NAME | Drain
ADDRESS | D&R Canal bank, E side of Stockton Bridge

Grain Store
NAME | Grain Store

Drain
NAME | Drain
ADDRESS | S end of tax map block 110,000, lot 350,000

Drain
NAME | Drain

Dock
NAME | Dock

Metal railroad signal box and metal mile marker
NAME | Metal railroad signal box and metal mile marker
ADDRESS | on railroad embankment

Mile marker
NAME | Mile marker
ADDRESS | on railroad embankment

Wall
NAME | Wall

Upright plank shoring on loose stone
NAME | Upright plank shoring on loose stone

Culvert
NAME | Culvert
ADDRESS | Creek into D&R Canal

High-sloping stone revetment wall
NAME | High-sloping stone revetment wall
DIGISTAFF | A.Chidley

Small unidentified structure
NAME | Small unidentified structure

High-sloping stone revetment wall
NAME | High-sloping stone revetment wall

3 modern wooden docks
NAME | 3 modern wooden docks

Dock
NAME | Dock
ADDRESS | Tax map block 110,000 along lot 290,000

Dock
NAME | Dock
ADDRESS | Tax map block 110,000 along lot 260,000

Belvidere Delaware Railroad over the Wickecheoke Creek
NAME | Belvidere Delaware Railroad over the Wickecheoke Creek
ADDRESS | Penn Central Railroad over Wickecheoke Creek
SURVEYNAME | Cultural Resources Investigations in Connection with the Proposed Maintenance Dredging of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, Reach 1, Delaware and Raritan Feeder Canal, Delaware River Inlet to the Prallsville Lock... Volume 2, Technical Data

Infall of Wickecheoke Creek
NAME | Infall of Wickecheoke Creek
ADDRESS | Wickecheoke Creek at D&R Canal
SURVEYNAME | Cultural Resources Investigations in Connection with the Proposed Maintenance Dredging of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, Reach 1, Delaware and Raritan Feeder Canal, Delaware River Inlet to the Prallsville Lock... Volume 2, Technical Data

Oil/Saw Mill tail race culvert
NAME | Oil/Saw Mill tail race culvert
ADDRESS | Under D&R Canal
SURVEYNAME | Cultural Resources Investigations in Connection with the Proposed Maintenance Dredging of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, Reach 1, Delaware and Raritan Feeder Canal, Delaware River Inlet to the Prallsville Lock... Volume 2, Technical Data

100 Lower Creek Road
NAME | 100 Lower Creek Road
ADDRESS | 100 Lower Creek Road [Block 33, Lot 17]
SURVEYNAME | [National Register nomination inventory]
HDNAME | Rosemont Rural Agricultural District
HSI_NUM | 18

D325 Bridge (NJHBD #100D325)
NAME | D325 Bridge (NJHBD #100D325)
ADDRESS | Lower Creek Road over the Wickecheoke Creek
SURVEYNAME | [National Register nomination inventory]
HDNAME | Rosemont Rural Agricultural District
HSI_NUM | 19

Centre Bridge-Stockton Toll Bridge
NAME | Centre Bridge-Stockton Toll Bridge
ADDRESS | Bridge Street over Delaware River
SURVEYNAME | Identification of Historic Properties, Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, Scour Remediation Projects, Bucks, Northampton, Monroe, and Pike, Pennsylvania and Mercer, Warren, Hunterdon, and Sussex, New Jersey
SURVEY_SHELFCD | MULT A 281
DIGISTAFF | K. Clark
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Roads, bridges & canal

Sergeantsville to Stockton - 1725?

Stockton to Kingwood - 1729
One of the oldest roads in the area. Followed the route of one of western Hunterdon Couty's major north/south routes which led to Readings's Ferry, an important Delaware River crossing.
[DB]

Old Prallsville Rd. - early 1800s

Jacob's Path - 1813
[ See: www.goodspeedhistories.com for article on Jacob's Path. ]

Jacob's Path overlay

Jacob's Path
In 1813 a new road from the bridge-abutment road at Centre Bridge [now Stockton] was laid in a northeasterly direction until it intersected with the road from Prallsville to Sergeantsville.
[See www.goodspeedhistories.com for full explanation.]

Jacob's bridge

Jacob's Path

Old Road

New access road for existing house?

road to Skoonkton

Prall Mills complex

Shamp Tavern

B56-16 [Errico land]

Delaware River bridge
Covered bridge - 1813 / steel bridge - 1927
The first bridge across the Delaware at Centre Bridge [at that point, the same name was used for the villages on both sides of the river... laterthe village on the New Jersey side was named Stockton] was a multi-span covered brdige which opened to traffic in 1814. It was a toll bridge, charging 75 cents for coaches and 2-4 cents for pedistrians. Church goers and funeral attendees were not charged.
Struck by lightning on July 22, 1923, the resulting fire destroyed the entire bridge. It was replaced in 1927 by the steel bridge that remains today.

Wickecheoke bridge
Undoubtedly this was originally a stone-arch bridge. It was replaced in the late 1800s with a metal truss bridge. Although this bridge no longer exists, the stone foundations for the bridge are still present. It was replaced with a concrete bridge which was in the process of renovation in 2014.

Delaware & Raritan Feeder Canal - c.1830
Construction of the D&R Canal began in 1830. Laborers, includiing locals, migrants and especially Irish were hired to dig, mostly by hand, the main canal [44 miles long] and its feeder [22 miles long]. It was completed in 1834 at the cost of almost $3 million and many lives.
The feeder canal originates at Bull's Island, opposite the village of Raven Rock, and runs through Stockton and Lambertville to Trenton. The main canal stretches from Trenton to Raritan Bay via Rocky Hill and Griggstown.

Hunterdon Co. - D&R Feeder Canal

D&R Feeder Canal - starting point
From Bull's Island to Trenton, it joins the main canal at Trenton. It had only two locks: Prallsville and Lambertville.

D&R - thru Delaware Township

Wing dam
This dam was constructed at the same time as the D&R Canal [early 1830s]. It was lowered in 2003.

Prallsville lock
Last locktender was Dory Wilson. No locktender's house.

Lambertville lock
Last locktender, George Price, also tended the Prallsville lock.

Mercer Co. [see 19thC transportation]

Somerset Co. [see 19thC transportation]

Reading's Landing
In 1703 John Reading, the first settler in what became Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, landed here and shortly purchased 1440 acres of land in the vicinitiy. By 1704 he was living on this land [above and to the north of the river area]... and undoubtedly constructed a temporary dwelling. By 1710 he had established a grist & saw mill in what today is known as Prallsville.

site of original ferry house - 1746
In 1746 Benjamin Howell, grandson of John Reading, received a patent from King George II to operate a ferry at Reading's Landing. He built a ferry house at this location [high above the landing], and by 1769 had enlarged the originial structure to double its size. The 'Ferry House' or 'Howell's Tavern' continued to operate until the mid-1800s.
1746 - Benjamin Howell
1761 - leased to John Horn
1772-1784 - leased to Joseph Roberson
1784 - Joseph Howell [son]
1800 - leased to John Barcroft
1807 - leased to Mathias Case
1809-1819 - licenses to Ezra Shamp/Schamp
1815 - purchased by Shamps for $3000
1822 - purchased by John Bake for $2500 > rented to Samuel Holt
1823 - leased to John & Mary Larew
1824 - John Bake at tavern
1826 - Delilah Howell > Mary Case, Samuel & Agness Hunt [heirs]
1827 - purchased by George & Asher Johnson for $1000
1845 - half interest conveyed by George to Asher
The tavern was torn down to make way for a church built on the site in 1860.

mistaken location of Ferry House
This building has been mistakenly referred to as the 'Ferry House', when indeed it was probably built c. 1825, after the ferry ceased operation. The original ferry house was north of Ferry St. on the hill where the Baptist church is now located.

Anderson Plantation & Burying Ground
Captain John Anderson, Essex Troop, Colonial Militia, bought this property in 1792.
Clark Hunt
William Colligan

Stockton bridgetender's house - c. 1813
Located directly adjacent to the bridge [facing Bridge St.]. First tollhouse was build in 1816; it washed away in the flood of 1841. Second toll house was bulit in 1858; it was torn down in 1952.
[There was no canal lock in Stockton; therefore, no locktender's house.]
Bridgetenders: [list]
last - Sylvester Ledger

Dwelling

Dwelling - 1862
Key contributing
Owners:
1862- G.S. Bellis
1865 - William V. Case [sawmill & spokeworks]
c.1879 - C.S. Conkling [sawmill & spokeworks]
1897 - Joseph D. Wilson [mailorder baby chicks]

Dwelling - c. 1863
Brick house built by William Bodine.

Dwelling - c. 1864
Built by William Veghte, merchant.

Dwelling - c. 1878
Stone double house

Dwelling & mill
Key contributing

Colligan Stockton Inn
First the dwelling of Asher Johnson. Converted to an inn c. mid 1800s.
Rodgers & Hart made the Inn famous by writing a song about it which started with the words "There's a small hotel... and a wishing well." It was also frequented by Paul Whiteman, a popular orchestra leader of the mid 1900s.
1851 Cornell - Smith's Hotel
1860 Philadelphia - Hotel
1873 Beers - Robert Sharp Hotel
State & National Registers

Churches & cemeteries

Howell-Rittenhouse Cemetery - early 1700's
Contains stones marking the final resting place of some of Stockton's earliest residents.

Stockton Baptist Church - 1860
[Key contributing]
Former site of the first ferry house at Readings'/Howell's Ferry.
The Berean Baptist church was founded in 1859; built in 1866. Its architect was a Mr. Graham of Trenton; its builder was Joseph H. Butterfoss of Stockton.

Stockton Presbyterian - 1867
Church & presbytery [1869]

Methodist Church - 1878
Now a Masonic Lodge.

St. Agnes' Church - 1919

District #98 Schoolhouse - 1832/1872
Built in 1872 on the site of an earlier [1832] eight-sided one-room school, it was enlarged in 1884. It is New Jersey's oldest continuously operating three-room schoolhouse.
New Jersey Register: November 2004
National Register: January 2005

Academy - 1862
Built as a school for the purpose of "teaching the common English and the high branches including the Classics". It is now a private residence.

Stores
First store in Stockton proper was Sharp & Lambert's on Old Prallsville Rd.

Sharp & Lambert - 1842
First store in Stockton.

Mason & Roberson's - 1850
W.P. Mason & F.E. Roberson
Also housed the post office, the telegraph office & later the telephone company.

Davison store - [date]
Austin Davison

Wilson's / Phillips [dates]
At what is now Phillips Wines.
[date] Wilson's Store [Lewis Wilson-father; Charlie Wilson-son]
[date] Dick Phillips

Post offices
First located in the Prall Store at the mill complex. In c.1848 it was relocated across the road to the Linseed Mill. In the early 1900s, it was moved to a structure built in Stockton by then mayor Theodore Moore. That building was razed in the 1950s, and a subsequent structure was built closeby. This one served the public until it was closed in 2012 and its postal operations moved to Ringoes.

Prall store - early 1800s

Linseed Mill - c. 1848

Barn [Cathers]

Barn

Grain store

Railroad Station

Spoke factory & sawmill

Case steam sawmill
*John Finney - steam sawmill [1862]
It was bought in 1865 by William V. and H.W. Case who enlarged the mill. They also owned the Stockton Spokeworks [1874]

Industrial Site
Paperware Co./ Bicycle Factory / Rubber Reclaiming Mill
Destroyed by fire.

Former Hunterdon Co. Bank

Borough Hall - 1907-08
Key contributing - Formerly the fire station in the early 1900s.

Prallsville Industrilal Historic District

Prallsville
Listed on the State Register in 1976 and the National Register in 1979.
[See also Stockton Village Walk.]
Named for the John Prall Jr. family in the late 1700s.

Dublin

Prallsville Industrial Historic District (Smith's Mills)
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STATUS: | Listed
DIGISTAFF: | J. Hammond
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BOUND_QUAL: | High
LOC_QUAL: | High
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Dwelling - Bodine
Part of the Reading/Howell/Prall lands.

Woolverton Inn
This land was owned by the Readings, Howells, and Woolvertons in that order in the first part of the 1700s before being purchased by John Prall Jr. late in that century. The original stone dwelling was likely built at that early time and was most probably enlarged by Prall after his purchase. The Woolvertons came back into possession of it in the mid-1800s, followed by the Bodine family.
Called 'Northridge' at one point in the 20th century, the bed & breakfast business currently there has gone by the name of 'Woolverton Inn' for the last several decades.

John Prall Jr. House - 1794
This house was built in 1794 by John Prall Jr. It was the finest house in the area, with a most unusual arrangement of rooms, including a formal front parlor, fine back hall, and two side parlors as well as a large cookhearth room [kitchen] with separate back stairs to the second floor.
1873 - Kessler & Company
1902 - J.W. Smith

Letitia Prall House
Built for John Prall Jr.'s daughter in the early 1800s. Part of the old Prall road is now contained within the fence that surrounds it.

General store
Built by John Prall Jr. as a general store and eventually served as the first post office in Prallsville. Converted to a residence in the mid 1800s.

Prall-Kessler dwelling/office
Circa 1830s.

Prallsville Mills
There was probably a mill here as early as 1710. John Reading's daughter, Mary, married Daniel Howell of Bucks Co. PA. He presented his daughter and her husband with a tract of land about a mile square on the south side of the Wichecheoke Creek and constructed a gristmilll and a sawmill for them, the first establishment of that sort in the area.
In 1733, Daniel Howell bequeathered the grist and saw mills to his two eldest sons, Daniel Howell, Jr. and John Howell. In 1750, Daniel Howell Jr. sold the mill property to Charles Woolverton. The Howells and Wolvertons ran the mill until the 1790s when it was purchased by John Prall Jr. Prall expanded the milling operations and added a store with a post office.
The next successful owner was William L. Hoppock. He sold the mill in the 1870s and shortly afterwards it burned down. The new owner, Lemuel O. Kessler, rebuilt and later sold to Stout Stover who built the present mill in 1877. It was later run by J. W. Smith's Sons, the last millers in Prallsville.
Millers:
1710 - Daniel Howell
rest of 1700s - Howells & Wolvertons
1792 - John Prall Jr.
1800s - William L. Hoppock
1874 - fire
later 1800s - Lemuel O. Kessler
Stout Stover
J.W. Smith's Sons
c. 1914 thru1946 - George Smith
thru 1950s - George Varselous
1960 - mill closed

Linseed oil mill
Later a store and post office.

Woolverton Saw Mill
Woolverton's ownership roughly 1765-1773. Later a warehouse.

Smokehouse
Later served as a bunkhouse for stonecutters. And finally as an office for quarry operators.

Miller's House
The last miller, George Smith, retired in 1946.

Dwelling
Contributing.

Prall Quarry