Editing Bound Brook, New Jersey (section)

==History==
The area was first settled in 1681 and a community was established near the [[Bound Brook (Raritan River)|Bound Brook]] stream of the same name, which flows into the [[Raritan River]] via the [[Green Brook]] on the eastern side of the borough.<ref>[http://www.raritanlanding.com/voices/places.htm A Note About Places] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001024540/http://www.raritanlanding.com/voices/places.htm |date=October 1, 2011 }}, From "Voices of Raritan Landing", accessed April 19, 2007.</ref> The brook, which was mentioned as a boundary in a Native American deed, provides the source of the borough's name.<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=8 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 27, 2015.</ref><ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA53 ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''], p. 53. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed August 27, 2015.</ref>

A wooden bridge over the Raritan River was erected as early as 1761 and named [[Queen's Bridge (New Jersey)|Queen's Bridge]] in 1767. Later, it became a [[covered bridge]]. During the [[American Revolutionary War]], the bridge was used repeatedly by both sides including during the [[Battle of Bound Brook]] in 1777. In 1875, the wooden bridge was replaced by a steel pipe [[truss bridge]].<ref>Snell, James P. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AdMwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA666 ''History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey''], p. 666. Everts & Peck, 1881. Accessed August 27, 2013. "A bridge across the river at this place was ordered built by an act of Legislature passed in 1728. It was not erected however until 1731 for a supplementary act was passed that year in reference to it. It was afterwards called the Queen's Bridge. The present bridge was built in 1875 at a cost of about $75,000."</ref> More than 100 years later, that bridge was itself replaced by a steel girder bridge in 1984, still using the old pillars.<ref>[http://njtownguide.com/counties/Somerset/Historic%20Places/Somerset_County%20Historic%20Places.html Somerset County – Historic Places], NJ Town Guide. Accessed August 27, 2013.</ref> The bridge was renovated and repaved in 2007.

The [[Battle of Bound Brook]], one of the battles in the [[New York and New Jersey campaign]] during the American Revolutionary War, occurred on April 13, 1777, and resulted in a defeat for the [[Continental Army]], who were routed by about 4,000 troops under [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] command.<ref>Monsport, Welson. [http://www.njskylands.com/hsBoundBrook.htm "The Battle of Bound Brook"], New Jersey Skylands. Accessed August 27, 2013.</ref>

On April 22, 1921, over 100 people were injured in Bound Brook, and one died, when a cloud of [[phosgene]] gas began spreading over the city in the early morning hours, the result of a faulty valve of a storage tank at a paint factory in town. The intervention of four people stopped further escape of the phosgene, which had been used in concentrated form as a chemical weapon during [[World War I]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1921/04/23/archives/5000-saved-one-dead-from-phosgene-gas-100-hurt-as-fumes-sweep-bound.html "5,000 Saved, One Dead, from Phosgene Gas; 100 Hurt as Fumes Sweep Bound Brook"], ''The New York Times'', April 23, 1921, p1</ref>