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Stelton, New Jersey

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Stelton, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
Stelton Baptist Church
Stelton, New Jersey Location of Stelton in Middlesex County Inset: Location of county within the state of New Jersey Stelton, New Jersey Stelton, New Jersey (New Jersey) Show map of New Jersey Stelton, New Jersey Stelton, New Jersey (the United States) Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 40°30′51″N 74°24′13″W / 40.51417°N 74.40361°W / 40.51417; -74.40361
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Middlesex
Township	Edison
Elevation ^[1]	115 ft (35 m)
GNIS feature ID	880876^[1]

Stelton is an unincorporated community located within Edison TownshipinMiddlesex County, in the U.S. stateofNew Jersey.^[2]^[3]

Established in 1689, the Stelton Baptist Church is the state's second oldest baptist congregation.^[4]

The present-day NJ Transit Edison station was originally constructed c. 1870 at Central Avenue and Plainfield Avenue and named “Stelton” after the Stelle family, early settlers in Piscatawaytown who arrived in 1668 and who were still numerous in the area in the 1880s.^[5] The Pennsylvania Railroad renamed the station to Edison on October 29, 1956, as part of the changing of names in Edison to reflect the newly honored Thomas Alva Edison.^[6] Stelton was home to an anarchist school and colony in the Ferrer school of thought for most of the first half of the 20th century.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Stelton". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.

^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 15, 2015.

^ Gannett, Henry (January 28, 1895). "A Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.

^ Home Page Archived 2018-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, Stelton Baptist Church. Accessed December 11, 2017. "The Stelton Baptist Church is in Edison, New Jersey. It is the second oldest Baptist Church in New Jersey and the tenth oldest in the United States. The congregation was formed in the spring of 1689, and among its original members was the Stelle family, after whom the Stelton section of Edison, New Jersey is named."

^ Clayton, W. Woodford. History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Their Pioneers and Prominent Men^{[permanent dead link]}, p. 849. Everts & Peck, 1882. Accessed December 11, 2017. "STELTON is a growing village on the line of Pennsylvania Railroad, about four miles from New Brunswick. It has a church, school-house, store, and post-office. Its appearance is neat; the dwellings in good taste; streets laid out with shade-trees; the town is surrounded by a farming community. There is a large number by the name of Stelle who were first settlers here in 1668, and from which the village received its name."

^ Staff. "Edison Township Adopts Fire Code", Edison Township and Fords Beacon, October 11, 1956. Accessed December 11, 2017. "The commissioners were notified that on October 29 at 1:30 o'clock there will be an official ceremony at the Stelton station of the Pennsylvania Railroad , when the station name will be formally changed to Edison."

v t e Edison, New Jersey
Sections	List of neighborhoods
Education	Edison Township Public Schools Edison High School J. P. Stevens High School Huaxia Edison Chinese School Middlesex County Magnet Schools Edison Academy Magnet School Middlesex County Academy Middlesex County College Wardlaw-Hartridge School Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Edison branch St. Thomas Aquinas High School
Parks, recreation and entertainment	BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir Dismal Swamp Edison Wetlands Association Edison State Park Exxxotica Expo Middlesex Greenway Oak Ridge Park Plainfield Country Club Plays-in-the-Park Roosevelt Park Rutgers Ecological Preserve
Economy	Bare Necessities Crazy Eddie Gund Hackensack Meridian Health FedEx Ground Kam Man Food JFK Medical Center Menlo Park Mall News 12 New Jersey Oak Tree Road OrbitBeyond Raritan Center Zylog Systems
NRHP	Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge Laing House of Plainfield Plantation Roosevelt Hospital Benjamin Shotwell House Short Hills Battlefield Historic District Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum
History	Stelton Baptist Church Camp Kilmer Durham Woods explosion Edison Assembly Kin-Buc Landfill Mayor of Edison 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster Piscatawaytown Edison divorce torture plot People
Public transportation	Edison station Metropark Metuchen station NJT 800 buses
Roads and bridges	Raritan River bridges Interstate 287 New Jersey Turnpike U.S. Route 1 Route 27 Route 440 County Routes
This list is incomplete.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States
County seat: New Brunswick
Cities	New Brunswick Perth Amboy South Amboy	Map of New Jersey highlighting Middlesex County
Boroughs	Carteret Dunellen Helmetta Highland Park Jamesburg Metuchen Middlesex Milltown Sayreville South Plainfield South River Spotswood
Townships	Cranbury East Brunswick Edison Monroe North Brunswick Old Bridge Piscataway Plainsboro South Brunswick Woodbridge
CDPs	Avenel Brownville Clearbrook Colonia Concordia Cranbury Dayton Deans Encore at Monroe Fords Forsgate Heathcote Hopelawn Iselin Keasbey Kendall Park Kingston‡ Laurence Harbor Madison Park Menlo Park Terrace Monmouth Junction Monroe Manor Old Bridge Plainsboro Center Port Reading Princeton Meadows Regency at Monroe Renaissance at Monroe Rossmoor Rutgers University-Busch Campus Rutgers University-Livingston Campus Sewaren Society Hill Stonebridge The Ponds Whittingham Woodbridge
Other unincorporated communities	Adams Applegarth Bonhamtown Boynton Beach Brookview Browntown Cheesequake Chrome Clara Barton Cottageville Cottrell Corners Cranbury Station East Spotswood Edgars Edgebrook Feaster Park Fieldville Franklin Park Fresh Ponds Gillespie Gravel Hill Half Acre Halls Corner Hazelton Hoffman Lahiere Lincoln Park Lindenau Little Rocky Hill Lynn Woodoaks Maurer Mechanicsville Melrose Menlo Park Middlesex Downs Morgan Morgan Heights New Dover New Durham New Market Newtown Nixon North Stelton Old Bridge Old Church Orchard Heights Parlin Phoenix Piscatawaytown Possumtown Potters Prospect Plains Pumptown Randolphville Raritan Gardens Raritan Landing Riverview Manor Sand Hills Sayerwood South Sayre Woods Sayreville Junction Sayreville Station Schalks Shore Road Estates Shore View Spotswood Manor Stelton Tracy Union Valley West Carteret Westons Mills Woodbridge Oaks Wyckoffs Mills
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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