Allamuchy Township, New Jersey
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox settlement Allamuchy Township is a township in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 5,335,<ref name=Census2020/><ref name=LWD2020/> an increase of 1,012 (+23.4%) from the 2010 census count of 4,323,<ref name=Census2010/><ref name=LWD2010/> which in turn reflected an increase of 446 (+11.5%) from the 3,877 counted in the 2000 census.<ref>Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed May 1, 2022.</ref>
Allamuchy Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 4, 1873, from portions of Independence Township.<ref name="Story">Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 245. Accessed May 30, 2024.</ref> The township's name comes from the Native American word "Allamachetey", meaning "place within the hills".<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. The Origin of New Jersey Place Names, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 26, 2015.</ref>
Geography
[edit]According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 20.27 square miles (52.51 km2), including 19.99 square miles (51.78 km2) of land and 0.28 square miles (0.73 km2) of water (1.39%).<ref name=CensusArea/><ref name=GR1 /> The townships southeastern border is formed by the Musconetcong River.
Allamuchy CDP (with a 2010 Census population of 78<ref>DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Allamuchy CDP, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 28, 2013.</ref>) and Panther Valley (2010 population of 3,327<ref>DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Panther Valley CDP, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 28, 2013.</ref>) are census-designated places and unincorporated communities located within the township.<ref>GCT-PH1 - Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 for Warren County, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 28, 2013.</ref><ref>2006-2010 American Community Survey Geography for New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 28, 2013.</ref><ref name=CPH232>New Jersey: 2010 - Population and Housing Unit Counts - 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH-2-32), United States Census Bureau, p. III-5, August 2012. Accessed May 28, 2013. "Warren County... Deleted CDPs: Allamuchy-Panther Valley (parts taken to form all of Allamuchy and Panther Valley CDPs)".</ref> As of the 2000 United States census, the two CDPs were consolidated as Allamuchy-Panther Valley,<ref name=CPH232/> which had a 2000 Census population of 3,125.<ref>DP-1 - Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000; Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data for Allamuchy-Panther Valley CDP, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 28, 2013.</ref>
Other unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Alphano, Long Bridge, Quaker Church, Saxton Falls and Warrenville.<ref>Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed May 21, 2015.</ref>
Allamuchy Township borders the municipalities of Frelinghuysen Township, Hackettstown and Independence Township in Warren County; Mount Olive Township in Morris County; and both Byram Township and Green Township in Sussex County.<ref>Municipal Directory, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed July 30, 2023.</ref><ref>New Jersey Municipal Boundaries, New Jersey Department of Transportation. Accessed November 15, 2019.</ref>
History
[edit]Prior to European settlement, what is now Allamuchy Township was inhabited for centuries by the Lenape Native Americans, until they were forced west by 1742.<ref>Helen R. Johnson, History of Allamuchy Township, N.J. (Allamuchy, NJ: Allamuchy Historical Society, 1973), p. 4.</ref> The Bird House Archaeological Site is located within the Township.<ref>Susan Morgan and the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Historic Sites of Warren County (Belvidere, NJ: Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission), p. 123. http://www.co.warren.nj.us/download/historic.pdf Template:Webarchive. Access Date: 25 November 2020</ref>
Quaker Settlement
[edit]Acting as a surveyor, John Reading laid out a tract of land for William Penn in 1715 that became the Quaker Settlement, the first non-Native Americans to live in Allamuchy.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 4">Johnson, History of Allamuchy (1973), p. 4.</ref> By 1752, the Society of Friends, or Quakers, established a community in the northeast corner of what is now Allamuchy Township.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 5">Johnson, History of Allamuchy (1973), p. 5.</ref> The settlement was chartered in Kingwood, NJ, and the first Quakers to arrive in Allamuchy brought with them the materials to build their homes.<ref>Snell, James P., History of Warren and Sussex Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881), p. 743.</ref> The land controlled by the Quaker Settlement spanned an area not just in Allamuchy, but what is now considered Green Township, NJ as well.<ref>Snell, History of Warren and Sussex (1881), p. 744.</ref> This settlement was known as the "Hardwick Friends," because what is now Allamuchy Township was then a part of Hardwick Township.
In 1735, Quakers selected a plot of land for use as a burying ground with accompanying stone wall and first constructed a wood meeting house in 1752, replacing it in 1764 with a stone building.<ref>Johnson, History of Allamuchy (1973), p. 5-6.</ref> The Hardwick Meeting sided with a branch of the Society of Friends known as the Hicksites in 1827, an event that compelled many of the Settlement's residents to leave for other Quaker communities.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 5"/> On February 2, 1854, the last Quaker meeting took place in the Settlement; it was formally dissolved in 1855.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 5"/> The Friends' Burying Ground was used until 1918, when its stone wall was repaired and a small monument installed; it was later restored in 1940.<ref>Johnson, History of Allamuchy (1973), p. 6-7.</ref>
The location of the Quaker meeting house was later used as a public school.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 6">Johnson, History of Allamuchy (1973), p. 6.</ref> There, in Fall 1921, the Quaker Grove School served as an experimental research station for rural education by researchers Fannie W. Dunn and Maria A. Everett from Teachers College, Columbia University.<ref>Johnson, Helen R. History of Allamuchy Township Allamuchy, NJ: Allamuchy Historical Society, 1973, p.11</ref> The result of their fieldwork was the book, Four Years in a County School, which detailed their findings with regards to the single-teacher model, curriculum, and observations about rural education in general.<ref>Fannie W. Dunn and Maria A. Everett, Four Years in a Country School (New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1926)</ref> In 1940, the Township consolidated its four public schools into a single location, the present-day Allamuchy Township School, and the Quaker Grove school reverted to private ownership.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 6"/>
Grand Estates
[edit]In the late 1700s, John Rutherfurd began construction of his vast home in Allamuchy.<ref>Johnson, History of Allamuchy (1973), p. 12.</ref> Lewis Morris Rutherfurd later occupied the estate, where he took the first telescopic photographs of the Moon from his home at Tranquility Farms in 1865.<ref name="Rutherfurd Hall History"/> His son, Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, raised Holstein cattle, Dorset sheep, English pheasants and hunting dogs on the estate, which included a Template:Convert deer preserve.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 4"/> Under Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, the 47-room house was known as the Stuyvesant Mansion, and was decorated with imported and Duncan Phyfe furniture, Ming Dynasty pottery, and 15th and 16th century suits of armor.<ref>Hoff, F. David, and Mrs. Ernest Johnson, "Allamuchy Township," in Historical Sites in Warren County, ed. Richard E. Harpster (Belvidere, NJ: Board of Chosen Freeholders, 1965), p. 6.</ref> The Stuyvesant Mansion was last occupied in 1947 and its contents sold in 1951 and 1955.<ref>Hoff and Johnson, "Allamuchy Township," in Historical Sites in Warren County, Harpster, ed., (1965), p. 6-7.</ref> The Mansion was destroyed by fire in September 1959.<ref>Hoff and Johnson, "Allamuchy Township," in Historical Sites in Warren County, Harpster, ed., (1965), p. 7.</ref>
Winthrop Rutherfurd commissioned Whitney Warren, architect of Grand Central Terminal, in 1902 to design Rutherfurd Hall. Completed in 1906, the Hall served as a hunting lodge family residence where prominent guests could be entertained, most famously U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt who was a close friend of Winthrop's second wife Lucy.<ref name="Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt">Template:Cite web</ref>
The eponymous family later gave Rutherfurd Hall to the Catholic Church in 1959 after the completion of Interstate 80 brought more traffic and noise to the area. The Church changed the Hall's name to Villa Madonna and used it as a convent for an order of nuns for five decades before selling it the town to be used as a museum and community education facility. Now listed on the National Historic Register, Rutherfurd Hall first opened to the public in 2012.<ref name="Rutherfurd Hall History">Template:Cite web</ref>
The Panther Ledge Farms estate was owned by Clendenin J. Ryan, former secretary to New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and politician who later ran an unsuccessful campaign for New Jersey Governor in the 1953 election.<ref>Hoff, F. David, and Mrs. Ernest Johnson, "Allamuchy Township," in Historical Sites in Warren County, ed. Richard E. Harpster (Belvidere, NJ: Board of Chosen Freeholders, 1965), p. 4.</ref> Ryan's estate acquired this name due to a rock bluff on the property, where local legend holds as the location the last mountain lion was hunted in the state.<ref name="Johnson 1965 p. 3-4">Hoff and Johnson, "Allamuchy Township," in Historical Sites in Warren County, Harpster, ed., (1965), p. 3-4.</ref> Panther Ledge Farms featured a private zoo, pheasant hatchery, helicopter, greenhouse, bloodhound kennel, and a collection of paintings Ryan bought from William Randolph Hearst.<ref name="Johnson 1965 p. 3-4"/>
In 1972 a left-wing group called the Allamuchy Tribe, led by activists Rennie Davis and Jerry Rubin and funded by ex-Beatle John Lennon, met at the Peter Stuyvesant Farm in Allamuchy to organize protests against the 1972 Republican National Convention.<ref name="Post FBI">Template:Cite news</ref> FBI surveillance of the Allamuchy Tribe led to the bureau putting pressure on Lennon to divest from political activity by threatening to deport him.<ref name="Gimme Some Truth">Template:Cite book</ref>
Demographics
[edit]The township, and all of Warren County, is part of the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area.<ref>Karp, Gregory. "Lehigh Valley, Warren County reunited as a metro area ** Economies, social patterns similar, federal office says.", The Morning Call, June 22, 2003. Accessed February 15, 2022. "This time, new rules for defining MSAs determined that because the Phillipsburg area was the biggest cluster of people in Warren County, the whole county should be lumped with the nearby Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metro area."</ref>
2010 census
[edit]The 2010 United States census counted 4,323 people, 1,953 households, and 1,213 families in the township. The population density was Template:Convert. There were 2,096 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert. The racial makeup was 93.45% (4,040) White, 1.78% (77) Black or African American, 0.14% (6) Native American, 2.73% (118) Asian, 0.02% (1) Pacific Islander, 0.39% (17) from other races, and 1.48% (64) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.49% (194) of the population.<ref name=Census2010/>
Of the 1,953 households, 22.9% had children under the age of 18; 50.7% were married couples living together; 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present and 37.9% were non-families. Of all households, 31.4% were made up of individuals and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.80.<ref name=Census2010/>
18.5% of the population were under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 33.6% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45.8 years. For every 100 females, the population had 90.9 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 85.5 males.<ref name=Census2010/>
The Census Bureau's 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $82,781 (with a margin of error of +/- $5,051) and the median family income was $104,601 (+/- $18,824). Males had a median income of $76,467 (+/- $14,328) versus $55,625 (+/- $6,142) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $49,834 (+/- $4,833). About 0.9% of families and 2.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.8% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.<ref>DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Allamuchy township, Warren County, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 28, 2013.</ref>
2000 census
[edit]As of the 2000 United States census there were 3,877 people, 1,692 households, and 1,133 families residing in the township. The population density was Template:Convert. There were 1,774 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert. The racial makeup of the township was 95.49% White, 0.93% African American, 0.05% Native American, 1.86% Asian, 0.70% from other races, and 0.98% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.68% of the population.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>
There were 1,692 households out of which 23.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.7% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.0% were non-families. 28.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.80.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>
In the township the population was spread out with 19.0% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 31.9% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females there were 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.6 males.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>
The median income for a household in the township was $70,107, and the median income for a family was $89,653. Males had a median income of $54,743 versus $41,782 for females. The per capita income for the township was $43,552. About 0.3% of families and 1.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.6% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>
Culture and tourism
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Rutherfurd Hall is a cultural center and museum that provides educational and enrichment opportunities for the residents of Allamuchy, the surrounding communities, and the greater New York – New Jersey Highlands region at large. It conducts and hosts public programs including: 4th of July Fireworks, Hall of Haunts, Scouting, Teas & Talks, etiquette courses, lectures, concerts, specialty summer camps and weddings. A family seat for the decedents of Walter Rutherfurd and Senator John Rutherfurd, Rutherfurd Hall was designed by Whitney Warren and the Olmsted Brothers and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.<ref>Registration Form for Rutherfurd Hall, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed August 29, 2015.</ref>
The north end of Shades of Death Road, a dark tourism "haunted highway" known by readers of Weird NJ magazine for the legends and folklore inspired by its macabre name, runs through Allamuchy.<ref>"Shades of Death Road", Weird NJ. Accessed December 7, 2022. "Many legends are associated with Shades of Death Road, which winds alongside Jenny Jump State Forest up to Allamuchy in Warren County."</ref>
Government
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[edit]Allamuchy Township is governed under the Small Municipality form of government. The Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, allows municipalities to adopt a Small Municipality form of government only for municipalities with a population of under 12,000 at the time of adoption. The township is one of 18 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form of government.<ref>Inventory of Municipal Forms of Government in New Jersey, Rutgers University Center for Government Studies, July 1, 2011. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The governing body is comprised of the Mayor and the four-member Township Council, with all positions elected at-large on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. The Mayor is elected directly by the voters to a three-year term of office. Council members serve a term of three years, which are staggered so that two seats come up for election in the first two years of a three-year cycle and the mayoral seat is up for direct vote in the third year.<ref name=DataBook>2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 103.</ref><ref>"Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey", p. 14. Rutgers University Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref>
Template:As of, the Mayor of Allamuchy Township is Republican Rosemary Tuohy, whose term of office ends December 31, 2024. Members of the Allamuchy Township Committee are Council President James H. Cote (R, 2023), Deborah Bonanno (R, 2022; appointed to serve an unexpired term), Ed Fabula (R, 2022) and Manuel P. "Manny" Quinoa (R, 2022).<ref name=Council>Mayor and Township Council, Allamuchy Township. Accessed February 28, 2022.</ref><ref>2022 Municipal Data Sheet, Allamuchy Township. Accessed December 7, 2022.</ref><ref name=Warren2021>Summary Results Report 2021 General Election November 2, 2021 Official Results, Warren County, New Jersey, updated November 18, 2021. Accessed January 1, 2022.</ref><ref name=Warren2020>Warren County 2020 General Election November 20, 2020 Official Results, Warren County, New Jersey, updated November 20, 2020. Accessed January 1, 2021.</ref><ref name=Warren2019>General Election November 5, 2019, Warren County Official Tally, [[Warren County, New Jersey|]], updated November 12, 2019. Accessed January 1, 2020.</ref>
In January 2022, Deborah Bonano was appointed from a list of three names nominated by the Republican municipal committee to fill the seat expiring in December 2023 that became vacant when Rosemary Tuohy stepped down to take office as mayor.<ref>Minutes Of The Regular Meeting Of The Allamuchy Township Council Held January 26, 2022 At 6:30 P.M., Allamuchy Township. Accessed February 28, 2022. "Mayor Tuohy stated that her Council seat became available and the Allamuchy Republican Committee submitted three names to the Township Council for consideration. At this time, Mayor Tuohy requested a motion and second to accept the nomination of Deborah A. Bonanno to fill the unexpired term of Mayor Tuohy’s Council seat.... At this time, Mayor Tuohy issued the Oath of Office to Councilwoman Bonanno."</ref>
The seat expiring in December 2022 that had been held by Douglas A. Ochwat was filled by Ed Fabula.Template:Citation needed
In January 2016, the Township Committee selected former mayor Betty Schultheis from three candidates nominated by the Republican municipal committee to fill the seat expiring in December 2017 that had been held by Keith DeTombeur until he stepped down to take office as mayor; Schultheis will serve on an interim basis until the November 2016 election, when voters will select a candidate to serve the balance of the term of office.<ref>Minutes of the Special Meeting of the Allamuchy Township Council Held January 13, 2016 Template:Webarchive, Allamuchy Township. Accessed August 7, 2016. "The following letter was received from the Allamuchy Township Republican Committee and read into the record by the Municipal Clerk (ATTACHMENT 1). The three names submitted to fill the unexpired term of Mayor DeTombeur is Betty Schultheis, Elliott Koppel and Manuel Quinoa. Motion by Councilwoman Cook, seconded by Councilman Lomonaco, carried to appoint Betty Schultheis to the Allamuchy Township Council. Mrs. Schultheis will be filling the unexpired term of Mayor DeTombeur which expires 12/31/17. Roll call vote: AYES: Councilwoman Cook, Councilman Lomonaco and Councilman Ochwat; NO: Mayor DeTombeur. At this time, Mayor DeTombeur issued to Oath of Office to Councilwoman Schultheis."</ref>
Federal, state, and county representation
[edit]Allamuchy Township is located in the 7th congressional district<ref name=PCR2022>2022 Redistricting Plan, New Jersey Redistricting Commission, December 8, 2022.</ref> and is part of New Jersey's 24th state legislative district.<ref name=Districts2023>Municipalities Sorted by 2023-2031 Legislative District, New Jersey Department of State. Accessed September 1, 2023.</ref>
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Politics
[edit]As of March 2011, there was a total of 3,197 registered voters in Allamuchy Township, of whom 529 (16.5% vs. 21.5% countywide) were registered as Democrats, 1,253 (39.2% vs. 35.3%) were registered as Republicans, and 1,413 (44.2% vs. 43.1%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were two voters registered as either Libertarians or Greens.<ref name=VoterRegistration>Voter Registration Summary - Warren, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, March 23, 2011. Accessed May 28, 2013.</ref> Among the township's 2010 Census population, 74.0% (vs. 62.3% in Warren County) were registered to vote, including 90.7% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 81.5% countywide).<ref name=VoterRegistration/><ref>GCT-P7: Selected Age Groups: 2010 - State -- County Subdivision; 2010 Census Summary File 1 for New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 28, 2013.</ref>
In the 2012 presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney received 62.2% of the vote (1,489 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 36.3% (868 votes), and other candidates with 1.5% (35 votes), among the 2,431 ballots cast by the township's 3,328 registered voters (39 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 73.0%.<ref name=2012Elections>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=2012VoterReg>Template:Cite web</ref>
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In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 74.3% of the vote (1,045 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 24.3% (342 votes), and other candidates with 1.4% (20 votes), among the 1,433 ballots cast by the township's 3,426 registered voters (26 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 41.8%.<ref name=2013Elections>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=2013VoterReg>Template:Cite web</ref>
Education
[edit]Public school students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade are served by the Allamuchy Township School District.<ref>Allamuchy Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Allamuchy Township School District. Accessed December 7, 2022. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight in the Allamuchy Township School District. Composition: The Allamuchy Township School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Township of Allamuchy."</ref> As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 421 students and 32.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1.<ref name=NCES>District information for Allamuchy Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref> Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics<ref>School Data for the Allamuchy Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref>) are Mountain Villa School<ref>Mountain Villa School, Allamuchy Township School District. Accessed December 7, 2022.</ref> with 134 students in pre-Kindergarten through second grade and Allamuchy Township School<ref>Allamuchy Township School, Allamuchy Township School District. Accessed December 7, 2022.</ref> with 287 students in third through eighth grade.<ref name=WarrenDistricts>2022-2023 Public School Directory, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed December 7, 2022.</ref><ref>About Us, Allamuchy Township School District, updated October 9, 2022. Accessed December 7, 2022. "As of 2022, Allamuchy Township School District serves approximately 450 students in grades Pre-K through eight. Students in Pre-K through grade two attend Mountain Villa School, while students in grades three through eight attend Allamuchy Township School. As part of a long-standing send-receive relationship, Allamuchy students in grades nine through twelve attend nearby Hackettstown High School."</ref><ref>School Performance Reports for the Allamuchy Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 31, 2024.</ref><ref>New Jersey School Directory for the Allamuchy Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>
Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Hackettstown High School which serves students from Hackettstown, as well as students from the townships of Allamuchy, Independence and Liberty, as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Hackettstown School District.<ref name=WarrenDistricts/><ref>Hackettstown High School 2013 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 20, 2016. "Hackettstown High School serves the communities of Hackettstown, Allamuchy, Independence, and Liberty."</ref> As of the 2020–21 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 864 students and 69.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.4:1.<ref>School data for Hackettstown High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref>
Students from the township and from all of Warren County are eligible to attend Ridge and Valley Charter School in Blairstown (for grades K–8)<ref>F.A.Q., Ridge and Valley Charter School. Accessed November 19, 2016. "Enrollment is open to any child in New Jersey, with preference for students from the districts of Blairstown, Frelinghuysen, Hardwick, Knowlton and North Warren Regional."</ref> or Warren County Technical School in Washington borough (for 9–12),<ref>About Us Template:Webarchive, Warren County Technical School. Accessed September 12, 2013.</ref> with special education services provided by local districts supplemented throughout the county by the Warren County Special Services School District in Oxford Township (for Pre-K–12).<ref name=WarrenDistricts/><ref>About Template:Webarchive, Warren County Special Services School District. Accessed September 12, 2013.</ref>
Transportation
[edit]Roads and highways
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Template:As of, the township had a total of Template:Convert of roadways, of which Template:Convert were maintained by the municipality, Template:Convert by Warren County and Template:Convert by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.<ref>Warren County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, New Jersey Department of Transportation, May 2010. Accessed July 18, 2014.</ref>
Interstate 80 crosses Allamuchy Township,<ref>Interstate 80 Straight Line Diagram, New Jersey Department of Transportation, updated April 2014. Accessed December 8, 2022.</ref> and is accessible at Exit 19, County Route 517.<ref>County Route 517 Straight Line Diagram, New Jersey Department of Transportation, updated November 2012. Accessed December 8, 2022.</ref>
Public transportation
[edit]Allamuchy Township was formerly served by the Allamuchy Train Station and Allamuchy Freight House until passenger service on the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway was ended in 1933.<ref>Freight House repairs are just the beginning Template:Webarchive, Allamuchy Township. Accessed August 22, 2013.</ref> The Allamuchy Freight House is listed on the National Historic Register of Historic Places.<ref>Historic Preservation Portfolio: Allamuchy Freight House, Precision Building and Construction. Accessed August 22, 2013.</ref>
Morris Canal
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Between 1831 and 1924, the Morris Canal connected the coal industry of the Lehigh Valley at Phillipsburg to New York Harbor via Newark and Jersey City. The Saxton Falls Dam Complex in Allamuchy along the Musconetcong River was selected for eligibility to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1993.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable people
[edit]Template:Category see also People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Allamuchy Township include:
- Alison Becker (born 1977), actress<ref>Barron, James. "", The New York Times, October 19, 2019. Accessed June 29, 2020. "But it is the nostalgia-tinted legend that remains in people’s memories. Alison Becker, 42, an actress and writer best known for a recurring role on the sitcom Parks and Recreation, said the risks at Action Park were part of the appeal. She said she had gone to Six Flags Great Adventure, which is also in New Jersey, and nothing equaled the fear factor at Action Park. 'You know the scene in Footloose where they’re playing a game of chicken with tractors and going at each other?' said Ms. Becker, who grew up about 30 miles from Action Park in Allamuchy Township."</ref>
- Stephen Bienko (born 1979), entrepreneur behind the College Hunks Hauling Junk brand<ref>Ruse, Leslie. "Ruse on the Loose: Morris Twp. man collecting sports equipment for Nicaraguans", Daily Record, September 21, 2014. Accessed June 29, 2020. "New Jersey entrepreneur Stephen Bienko, whose Montville company, 42 Holdings, LLC, is the largest owner of College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving franchise territories, has been selected by NJBIZ Magazine as one of its 2014 '40 Under 40' top business people in the state. The 37-year-old Delbarton graduate lives in Allamuchy."</ref>
- Ada Lunardoni (1911–2003), artistic gymnast who competed in the gymnastics competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics<ref>Nutt, Bill. "NJ women on first US gymnastics team in spotlight at Centenary", Daily Record, January 30, 2018. Accessed January 3, 2024. "From researching newspaper articles, Rust learned about the women’s gymnastics team and specifically about Ada Lunardoni, who had since married, divorced, and remarried before moving to the Panther Valley section of Allamuchy."</ref>
- Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd (born 1891), lived in what is now Rutherfurd Hall where President Franklin D. Roosevelt paid at least one call on her "as a friend" before the existence of their lifelong romantic affair was publicly revealed<ref>Freight House repairs are just the beginning, Allamuchy Township, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 22, 2011. Accessed January 27, 2020. "The Allamuchy stop received additional notoriety in the 1940s, when Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled to Allamuchy in his private railway car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to call on his close friend Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. The Rutherfurds were a prominent family in the county, whose mansion, now known as Villa Madonna, also was built in 1906."</ref><ref name=RutherfurdHall>Rutherfurd Hall, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed January 27, 2020. "Winthrop married Alice Morton, daughter of Vice-President Levi P. Morton, in 1902, a match that prompted him to build a new country house near his family's ancestral estate, Tranquility Farms, in Allamuchy, New Jersey. His second wife, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, was the social secretary to Eleanor Roosevelt and a onetime mistress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt."</ref>
- Winthrop Rutherfurd (born 1862), socialite and husband of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd<ref name=RutherfurdHall/>