Editing Middletown Township, New Jersey (section)

==Historic district==
{{Infobox NRHP
  | name = Middletown Village Historic District
  | nrhp_type = HD | nocat = yes
  | image = File:Episcopal Church of Middletown.jpg
  | caption = [[Christ Church (Middletown, New Jersey)|Christ Church]] on Kings Highway
  | location= Kings Highway
  | locmapin = 
  | built = {{Start date|1664}}
  | added = May 3, 1974
  | area = {{convert|80|acre}}
  | refnum = 74001177<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a|refnum=74001177}}</ref>
  | designated_other1 = New Jersey Register of Historic Places
  | designated_other1_abbr = NJRHP
  | designated_other1_link = New Jersey Register of Historic Places
  | designated_other1_date = December 20, 1973
  | designated_other1_number = 2026<ref name=NJRHP>{{cite web | title=New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Monmouth County | url=https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/MONMOUTH.pdf#page=12 | publisher=[[New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection]] - Historic Preservation Office | page=12 | date=June 10, 2023 }}</ref>
  | designated_other1_num_position = bottom
  | designated_other1_color = #ffc94b
}}

The [[Middletown Village Historic District]] is an {{convert|80|acre|adj=on}} [[historic district (United States)|historic district]] located on both sides of Kings Highway, south and west of [[New Jersey Route 35|Route 35]]. It features numerous structures from the early colonial period, when settlers primarily of [[England|English]] descent from [[Long Island]] and [[New England]] were first immigrating to Middletown after the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] surrender of the [[New Netherland]] colony at the onset of the [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]] in 1664.<ref>Salter, Edwin. ''A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties: Embracing a Genealogical Record of Earliest Settlers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and Their Descendants.'' (Bayonne, New Jersey: E Gardner & Son, 1890), 24.</ref><ref>Scharfenberger, Gerry., [https://patch.com/new-jersey/middletown-nj/bp--kings-highway-middletowns-most-historic-road "Kings Highway: Middletown's Most Historic Road"], ''Patch.com'', Posted: January 16, 2013. Accessed: June 11, 2023.</ref> The most distinct preserved structures in this village are the three historic churches along Kings Highway, including The Old First Church (founded in 1688<ref>[https://oldfirstchurchnj.org/about-us/ About Us], Old First Church. Accessed June 10, 2023. "Our roots are in the Baptist tradition as our congregation was originally established as the Middletown Baptist Church in 1688."</ref>), [[Christ Church (Middletown, New Jersey)|Christ Church]] (founded in 1702, which is one of the oldest Episcopal parishes in New Jersey), and The Middletown Reformed Church (which dates from 1836).<ref name=mvhis>[https://www.middletownnj.org/248/Middletown-Village Middletown Village], Middletown Township, New Jersey. Accessed June 10, 2023.</ref>

The district was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on May 3, 1974, for its significance in education, military history, political history, religion, and settlement.<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/MONMOUTH.pdf#page=13 New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Monmouth County], [[New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection]] Historic Preservation Office, updated March 30, 2023.</ref> It includes a total of 15 [[contributing property|contributing properties]].

<gallery heights=200px widths=275px mode="nolines">
File:Old First Church.jpg|Old First Church
File:Middletown Reformed Church.jpg|Reformed Church
</gallery>