Editing Millstone, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[File:Millstone_Historic_District_signage.jpg|thumb|300px|Millstone National Historic District]]
Millstone, then called Somerset Courthouse, was the county seat of Somerset County from 1738 until the British burned it to the ground in 1779 during the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref>[http://www.millstoneboro.org/about/millstone-history A Brief History of Millstone, also known as Somerset Courthouse; Early History], Millstone Borough. Accessed February 2, 2015.</ref> After the [[Battle of Princeton|victory at Princeton]] on January 3, 1777, General [[George Washington]] headquartered at the [[c:File:John Van Doren House Millstone New Jersey HABS109828pv.jpg|Van Doren house]], while the army camped nearby that night. The next day, they marched to [[Pluckemin, New Jersey|Pluckemin]] on the way to their winter encampment at [[Morristown, New Jersey|Morristown]].<ref>Honeyman, A. Van Doren. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_uY5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA50 "The Second Somerset Courthouse - At Millstone"], pp. 50–58. in ''Somerset County Historical Quarterly'', 1912. Accessed February 2, 2015.</ref><ref>[[David Hackett Fischer|Fischer, David Hackett]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KjxRXWdXeREC&pg=PA342 ''Washington's Crossing''], p. 342. [[Oxford University Press]], 2006 (New York). {{ISBN|0-19-517034-2}}.</ref>

Millstone was briefly connected to the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] when the [[Mercer and Somerset Railway]] was extended to the town in the 1870s and connected via a bridge across the [[Millstone River]] to the Pennsylvania Railroad's [[Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad]], but that arrangement did not last into the 1880s.{{why|date=June 2019}} Remnants of the railroad bridge can still be seen.