Editing Knowlton Township, New Jersey (section)

==History==
Knowlton Township was created as a precinct by [[Royal charter]] from portions of [[Oxford Township, New Jersey|Oxford Township]] on February 23, 1763,<ref name=Story/><ref>[http://historicknowlton.org/ Home Page], Knowlton Township Historic Commission. Accessed May 24, 2017. "'Knoll town' so called for the prevalent hills and limestone knobs, was sectioned off from Oxford Township in 1768." Note that this 1768 date conflicts with the state source.</ref> while the area was still part of [[Sussex County, New Jersey|Sussex County]], and was incorporated as a township by an act of the [[New Jersey Legislature]] on February 21, 1798, and then became part of the newly created Warren County on November 20, 1824. Portions of the township were taken to form [[Hope Township, New Jersey|Hope Township]] (April 8, 1839) and [[Blairstown, New Jersey|Blairstown Township]] (April 14, 1845).<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. [https://nj.gov/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 246. Accessed May 29, 2024.</ref>

Knowlton's name is variously attributed to [[Thomas Knowlton]], a Colonel in the [[Continental Army]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]] who was killed in action at the [[Battle of Harlem Heights]],<ref name="multiple">Snell, James P. (1881) ''History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers''. (Centennial ed., Harmony, NJ: Harmony Press, 1981) pp. 623, 625</ref> or to the [[hillock|knolls]] that characterize the area.<ref>[http://historicknowlton.org/ Home Page], Knowlton Township Historic Commission. Accessed September 2, 2015. "'Knoll town' so called for the prevalent hills and limestone knobs, was sectioned off from Oxford Township in 1768."</ref> In some older sources, the name is spelled "Knawltown".<ref>Harbaugh, H. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=joQfAAAAYAAJ&q=knawltown+nj The Fathers of the German Reformed Church in Europe and America, Volume 2.]'' Sprenger & Westhaeffer, 1872</ref>

The township is served by postal [[ZIP Code]]s in Columbia (07832) and Delaware (07833), although a small number of Knowlton residents receive postal deliveries via the Blairstown (07825) post office. Within the township are several small hamlets, including Browning, Deckers Ferry, Mount Pleasant, Polkville, Ramseyburg, [[Warrington, New Jersey|Warrington]] and Knowlton itself.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/localnames.txt New Jersey Local Names], State of [[New Jersey]]. Accessed January 27, 2014.</ref>