Cedar Grove, New Jersey | |
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.JPG) A 1904 class photo of the Cedar Grove School | |
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| Coordinates:40°22′05″N74°41′42″W / 40.36806°N 74.69500°W /40.36806; -74.69500 | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New Jersey |
| County | Mercer |
| Borough | Princeton |
| Elevation | 207 ft (63 m) |
| GNIS feature ID | 875276[1] |
Cedar Grove is anunincorporated community located withinPrinceton inMercer County, in theU.S. state ofNew Jersey.[2] In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was a village with a church, blacksmith, and schoolhouse. It is located on the brow of a hill along Great Road from Princeton toBlawenburg. The Cedar Grove area was settled by French families of some prominence who wereHuguenot refugees, including Louis and Maria Tulane, to whomPaul Tulane, philanthropist and founder ofTulane University, was born in 1801.[3] The suburbanization ofPrinceton Township (now part of a merged Princeton Borough) in the second half of the 20th century led to a loss of Cedar Grove's place as a distinctive settlement, though some older buildings are still extant. As the main route of Great Road has been relocated to a bypass to the east, the area is much less traveled.[4] Most of the area's land is owned by the Tenacre Foundation, aChristian Science care and nursing facility.[5]
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