Editing Pohatcong Township, New Jersey (section)

==History==
Pohatcong Township was officially established in 1881. On March 24, 1881, Chapter 145 of the Acts of the New Jersey General Assembly was published defining and creating Pohatcong Township. The act to form Pohatcong had been introduced by Assemblyman William Fritts and, once law, was to take effect January 1 of the following year.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Pohatcong: The Prologue |last=Leary |first=Frank |publisher=Pohatcong Heritage Commission |year=1981 }}</ref> Pohatcong was incorporated on January 1, 1882.<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=26 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed September 20, 2015.</ref> It was divided off of [[Greenwich Township, Warren County, New Jersey|Greenwich Township]]. Pohatcong township's name comes from [[Lenape]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], who called the area "split hills stream outlet". The industrialized center of the township was separated to form [[Alpha, New Jersey|Alpha borough]], on April 27, 1911.<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. 248. Accessed May 30, 2024.</ref>