Editing Pennington, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[File:Pennington 1st Presbyterian Church, Pennington, NJ.JPG|thumb|275px|Historic [[First Presbyterian Church (Pennington, New Jersey)|First Presbyterian Church]] in Pennington]]
According to an 1883 history, "the first name of the village was Queenstown, which was given it in honor of Queen Anne. Later it was by some, in derision of its comparative insignificance, Pennytown, and as early as 1747 it began to be called Pennington."<ref>[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njmercer/Mun/PenningHis.htm Pennington Borough History] from ''History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Their Pioneers and Prominent Men'' by Major E. M. Woodward & John F. Hageman, 1883. Accessed September 1, 2014.</ref><ref>Rojas, Cristina. [http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2015/04/celebrating_our_hometown_heritage_pennington_kicks.html "'Celebrating our Hometown Heritage': Pennington kicks off 125th anniversary celebrations"], [[NJ.com]], April 16, 2015. Accessed September 17, 2015. "The borough's history dates to the early 1700s when it was called Queenstown in honor of Queen Anne. It was later known as Penny Town and was established as a borough in 1890 from portions of Hopewell Township."</ref><ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=25 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed September 17, 2015.</ref> The name "Penington" was already known in the area, as Edward Penington (1667–1701), son of the British Quaker leader [[Isaac Penington (Quaker)|Isaac Penington]], was appointed by his kinsman [[William Penn]] as Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. His father-in-law was a longtime leader, including as governor, of the province of [[West Jersey]], where Edward married.<ref>[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~amxroads/Isaac/isaac.html Old Philadelphia Families XLVII Penington]. Accessed September 1, 2014.</ref> [[Henry Gannett]] attributes the borough's name to colonial governors from the Pennington family.<ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA24 ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''], p. 24. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed September 17, 2015.</ref>

Pennington was established as a borough by an act of the [[New Jersey Legislature]] on January 31, 1890, from portions of [[Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey|Hopewell Township]], based on the results of a referendum held on January 21, 1890.<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. 194. Accessed May 30, 2024.</ref> It is a [[dry county|dry borough]], where alcohol cannot be sold.<ref>New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. New Jersey ABC list of dry towns (May 1, 2013)</ref><ref>Giordano, Rita. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140224024649/http://articles.philly.com/2007-06-24/news/25234867_1_liquor-licenses-quota-licenses-liquor-stores "More towns catching liquor-license buzz; Moorestown considers ending its dry spell"], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', June 24, 2007. Accessed February 16, 2014.</ref>