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== History == [[File:Princeton Junction Train Station - 1870s.jpg|alt=The earliest known photograph of the Princeton Junction Train Station - c. 1870s|left|thumb|400x400px|The earliest known photograph of the Princeton Junction train station - c. 1870s. The station building was originally located on the northwest side of the railroad tracks.]] Following the mid-1860s relocation of the [[Camden & Amboy]] rail line from next to the [[Delaware and Raritan Canal|Delaware & Raritan Canal]] to the present location of the [[Northeast Corridor]], and the subsequent construction of a train station south of the intersection of Washington Road and the new rail line, a community called "Princeton Junction" developed. This community originally featured several farmhouses, a hotel, a general store, a feed mill, and several other businesses centered around the intersection of Station Drive and Washington Road, profiting off of access to other cities provided by the rail line.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Princeton Junction |url=https://www.westwindsorhistory.com/princetonjunction.html |access-date=2020-09-29 |website=THE SCHENCK FARMSTEAD |language=en}}</ref> The construction of the neighborhood of [[Berrien City, New Jersey|Berrien City]] (focused around Scott Avenue, Alexander Road, and Berrien Avenue) starting in the 1910s represented West Windsor's first planned development. Following the reconstruction of the Washington Road railroad bridge in 1939, the business center of the community shifted to the intersection of Washington Road and Cranbury Road, where a lumber yard, service station, liquor store, strip mall, several gas stations, and several more businesses operated for decades.<ref name=":0" /> Following [[World War II]], the Princeton Junction population grew with the construction of residential developments such as Sherbrooke Estates, Windsor Chase, and Wellington Estates.<ref name=":0" /> Princeton Junction is currently the proposed site of a "transit village" to be built northwest of the train station.<ref name=":0" /> In October 2019, the Historical Society of West Windsor published an online museum exploring the history of West Windsor - including that of Princeton Junction.<ref name=":0" />
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