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Lawrenceville, New Jersey Lawrenceville is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Lawrence Township in Mercer County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 4,081. Lawrenceville is located roughly halfway between Princeton and Trenton.Lawrenceville is also known as the 'village of Lawrenceville.' Its core is the Main Street Historic District, which was listed in the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1972, one of the first registered historic districts in New Jersey . Geography Lawrenceville is located at 40°18′11″N 74°44′13″W / 40.302993°N 74.736976°W / 40.302993; -74.736976. The CDP has a total area of 2.7 km² (1.0 mi²), all land, according to the United States Census Bureau.U.S. Route 206 changes its name to from 'Lawrenceville-Princeton Road' to 'Main Street', and then to 'Lawrenceville-Trenton Road' in the center of Lawrenceville. The local historic district fronts along Main Street and U.S. Route 206 for more than two miles between Franklin Corner Road and an area slightly north of Fackler Road. Homes situated more than 250 feet from the road are excluded, however. One exception is the section of The Lawrenceville School known as the Circle and several other buildings in its vicinity, the oldest buildings on the campus. This area itself has been designated a National Historic Landmark .Lawrenceville generally comprises the area contained within Lawrenceville-Pennington Road to the south, Fackler Road to the north, Keefe Road to the west, and U.S. Route 206, part of which turns into Main Street in Lawrenceville, to the east. The Lawrenceville School, across Route 206, is usually considered part of the village as well. Before tract development, beginning in the early 1970s, Lawrenceville was broadly defined as stretching two to three blocks back from Route 206. The boundary became less clear as residential developments replaced farmland behind the historic village.Lawrence Township is occasionally and mistakenly referred to as Lawrenceville. The confusion is partly caused because the local post office is located in the Lawrenceville CDP and the Postal Service once instructed Lawrence Township residents to use Lawrenceville, Princeton or Trenton as their mailing address.The U.S. Postal Service agreed to designate the ZIP code of 08648 as Lawrence Township in fall of 2007. A township resident appeared before Township Council in July, 2007, to request to designate the 08648 ZIP code for Lawrence Township. Council approved a resolution in support of the request that was then forwarded to the U.S. Postal Service. Township officials had fought, off and on, for the change since 1969, when then-U.S. Rep. Frank Thompson tried unsuccessfully to convince U.S. Postal Service authorities to grant a Lawrence name tag for the entire township, according to a letter on file at the Municipal Clerk’s Office. In 1973, voters approved a nonbinding referendum to petition the U.S. Postal Service to adopt a single municipal post office address known as Lawrenceville for the entire township. The effort failed [].Lawrenceville is equidistant between Trenton and Princeton, almost being equidistant from New York and Philadelphia, with it being roughly fifteen miles closer to Philadelphia. Major transportation corridors have passed through Lawrenceville since the town's inception, including The King's Highway, which in the 18th century approximated today's U.S. Route 206 . Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 4,081 people, 1,747 households, and 1,070 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,515.1/km² (3,926.5/mi²). There were 1,776 housing units at an average density of 659.3/km² (1,708.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 88.12% White, 3.58% African American, 0.07% Native American, 6.30% Asian, 0.54% from other races, and 1.40% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.46% of the population.Of the 1,747 households, 32.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them; 48.7% were married couples living together; 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present; and 38.7% were non-families. 32.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.99.In the CDP the population was spread out with 24.2% under the age of 18; 5.8% from 18 to 24; 32.2% from 25 to 44; 27.7% from 45 to 64; and 10.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 83.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 77.7 males.The median income for a household in the CDP was $74,107. The median income for a family was $98,972. Males had a median income of $65,189 versus $37,972 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $37,919. About 0.6% of families and 1.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over. History Lawrenceville was founded as Maidenhead in 1697, as part of the county of Burlington in the colony of West Jersey. In 1714, the village became a part of Hunterdon County. In 1798, the New Jersey Legislature legally incorporated the Township of Maidenhead.The name 'Maidenhead' was adopted from an English town on the Thames River, about 20 miles from London. The Colonial Supreme Court at Burlington officially confirmed the name on February 20, 1697. 'Maidenhead' derives from the Anglo Saxon word 'Maidenhythe,' meaning port, though it acquired a secondary meaning as a term for virginity. []The Rev. Issac V. Brown, the first full-time pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville and the founder of the Academy of Maidenhead (now the Lawrenceville School), led a movement to petition the Legislature to change the town's name. The petition said '... it must be the wish of every good citizen... to be relieved of the necessity of using a term which may offend the delicacy of modesty, or disturb the feelings of seriousness, or excite the sneers of the willing' [] .The Legislature officially changed the name from Maidenhead to Lawrence on January 24, 1816, at a meeting in John Moore's Tavern. The township took its name from Captain James Lawrence, a naval hero of the War of 1812. The village was renamed Lawrenceville at the same time. In 1838, Mercer County was formed from parts of three counties, and Lawrence Township was included in the new County. The Township's boundaries and geographic relationships have remained the same since that time.During the Revolutionary War, George Washington's troops marched through Maidenhead after the Battle of Trenton (25–26 December 1776) and the Second Battle of Trenton (2 January 1777), chasing British troops. They met at the Battle of Princeton on 3 January 1777, just over the township line, where the Princeton Battlefield State Park now stands.Cornwallis stayed overnight in Maidenhead on Dec. 8, 1776, en-route to Trenton. Cornwallis recorded the moment in his diary, a portion of which was found years later in John Moore's Tavern, which is now a residential house at 2695 Main Street. His opinion of the village was that 'one night in Maidenhead was more than enough' [].When the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville was built in 1698, it was called the Meetinghouse of Maidenhead. It is still serving the community at 2688 Main Street. Government Lawrenceville is part of Lawrence Township, and has no separate political or administrative definition. Education The Lawrenceville Elementary School, one of Lawrence Township Public Schools' four elementary schools, is located in Lawrenceville. (The other schools are Eldridge Park Elementary, Ben Franklin Elementary, and Slackwood Elementary.) The LES school mascot is named LESter the Dragon and their school colors are green and white.Lawrenceville is home to the Lawrenceville School, a private boarding and day high school founded in 1810. It is one of the oldest prep schools in the United States.Other schools in the township are Notre Dame High School, St. Ann School, Princeton Junior School, Chapin School, Lawrence Intermediate School (LIS), Lawrence Middle School (LMS), and Lawrence High School (LHS).In May 2002, the residents including Asian/Chinese as well as non-Asian/Chinese population established a Chinese language school where students of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds could learn the Chinese language on Sunday afternoons. From September 2002 to June 2005, Lawrence Middle School was the host to YingHua Language School, which teaches Simplified Chinese to over 200 students. Since September 2005, YingHua has been residing in Rider University.Rider University is located in Lawrence Township, just south of Lawrenceville. Commerce Historically, the Lawrenceville School was the dominant economic force in the village. Since World War II, it has become a commuter town, serving educational and corporate employment centers in Lawrence Township, in Princeton and Trenton, in the surrounding cluster of corporate and research campuses, and to a lesser extent in New York City. There are no large businesses in Lawrenceville itself, but Lawrence Township is home to several large corporate facilities outside of the village, including the world headquarters of Educational Testing Service, offices for the Lenox division of Department 56, the main research facility for Bristol Myers Squibb, and the offices of the Peterson's division of Nelnet.The village businesses share an organization, Lawrenceville Main Street, which organizes events, such as the Music in the Park series, the annual Jubilee, and Taste of Lawrenceville, and promotes the business district to visitors. Lawrenceville includes some boutiques and restaurants, including Acacia, Vidalia, and Chambers Walk Cafe and Catering, where Dick Gratton performs solo jazz guitar every Friday night. Other businesses include TJ's Pizzeria and Pasta, the Village Barber, and the Village Bakery.The Lawrenceville Farmers Market is held every Sunday, from about June to November, at 16 Gordon Avenue. The market has included such vendors as Gravity Hill Farm, Terhune Orchards, Cherry Grove Farm, Cherry Grove Organic Farm, Valley Shepard Creamery, Griggstown Quail Farm, and Davidson Exotic Mushrooms.The Lawrenceville Fire Co., Lawrenceville Water Co. (now part of Aqua America), Lawrenceville Fuel, and a U.S. Post Office are also located in Lawrenceville.Lawrenceville was formerly home to a family grocery, hardware store, pharmacy, and, most famously, the Jigger Shop, which served generations of Lawrenceville School students as a school store and soda fountain. A jigger is a unit of measure used in old-fashioned fountain sodas . A fire destroyed the shop on August 10, 1990. Caused by faulty electrical cords that ran to a store refrigerator, the fire burned through the store's ceiling into the second-floor apartment, which was unoccupied . A new Jigger Shop then opened at The Lawrenceville School and is located on the first floor of the Noyes History Building. Four Star Video opened in the space formerly occupied by the Jigger Shop. Having since closed, Four Star Video was replaced by law offices. Notable residents Notable current and former residents of Lawrenceville include:David Brearley(1745–1790), signer of theUnited States Constitutionand Chief Justice of theNew Jersey Supreme Courtfrom 1779-1789. George H. Brown(1810–1865), representedNew Jersey's 4th congressional districtin theUnited States House of Representativesfrom 1853 to 1855. Norman Schwarzkopf(1934-), US Army general (ret.), commander of coalition forces during theGulf War Dierks Bentley(1975-), country music musician.[citation needed] Eric Danger Clark(1957-), former NFL quarterback. Jon Stewart(1962-), comedian and host ofThe Daily ShowonComedy Central. Tiquan Underwood,NFLwide receiverfor theJacksonville Jaguars. John Nalbone,tight endfor theMiami Dolphins Jon Solomon, DJ onWPRB Richard J. Coffee the founder of Mercer County Park and a former state senator.