Editing New Jersey Route 12 (section)

==History==
Route 12 was legislated as a new route in the [[1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering]] that was to run from Frenchtown east to [[New Jersey Route 28|Route 28]] in Raritan borough, running along its current alignment to Flemington and following present-day US 202 to Raritan.<ref name=nj1927>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1927, Chapter 319.</ref><ref name="Map">{{cite web|author= Williams, Jimmy and Sharon|url= http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/images/1927_routes.gif|title= 1927 New Jersey Road Map|publisher= 1920s New Jersey Highways|access-date= 2008-10-08|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071031111034/http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/images/1927_routes.gif|archive-date= 2007-10-31}}</ref> By the 1940s, US 202 and Route 29 were designated along the alignment of Route 12 between Flemington and Raritan, cutting the route's eastern terminus back to Flemington.<ref name="mwm">{{cite map|publisher=Mid-West Map Co.|title= Map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey |year=1941|cartography=[[H.M. Gousha]]|url=http://www.mapsofpa.com/roadcart/1941_1467m.jpg|access-date=2009-03-29}}</ref> In the [[1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering]], Route 12 was officially legislated to run from Frenchtown to US 202 and [[New Jersey Route 69|Route 69]] (now Route 31) in Flemington.<ref name="nj1953">{{Cite journal|title=1953 renumbering|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|publisher=New Jersey Department of Highways|access-date=July 31, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628183145/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|archive-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref> There are currently plans to modify or eliminate the three traffic circles along Route 12 in Flemington in order to ease traffic congestion along the route. The Main Street Circle was converted to a modern roundabout in 2010 while plans are still being thought out for the other two traffic circles.<ref name=tsl>{{cite news |last=Slaght|first=Veronica|access-date=2009-06-24|title=Confusing Flemington traffic circles to go in new directions |newspaper=[[The Star-Ledger]] |date=March 15, 2009|url=http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/03/traffic_circles_are_as_new.html}}</ref><ref name=Circle2>{{cite news |url=http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2014/09/makeover_of_big_flemington_tra.html |title=Makeover of big Flemington traffic circle is on track for 2015 or '16 |author=Epstein, Rick |newspaper=[[Hunterdon County Democrat]] |date=September 2, 2014 |access-date=October 12, 2015}}</ref>

By Joint Resolution No. 1, approved April 22, 1940, the [[New Jersey Legislature]] designated Route&nbsp;12 from the junction with present-day Route 31 to [[Croton, New Jersey|Croton]] as the Samuel Hill Highway, in memory of local industrial pioneer Samuel Hill.<ref>State of New Jersey; ''Laws of 1940, Joint Resolution No. 1''</ref>