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===Neighborhoods=== [[Crandon Lakes, New Jersey|Crandon Lakes]] (with a 2010 Census population of 496 in Stillwater Township, out of a CDP total of 1,178<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/1600000US3415610 DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Crandon Lakes CDP, New Jersey] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200212133236/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/1600000US3415610 |date=February 12, 2020 }}, [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed February 25, 2013.</ref>) is an [[Local government in New Jersey#Unincorporated communities|unincorporated community]] and [[census-designated place]] (CDP) split between [[Hampton Township, New Jersey|Hampton Township]] and Stillwater Township.<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/GCTPH1.CY10/0500000US34037 GCT-PH1 - Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 for Sussex County, New Jersey] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200212202539/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/GCTPH1.CY10/0500000US34037 |date=February 12, 2020 }}, [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed February 25, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www2.census.gov/acs2010_5yr/summaryfile/UserTools/Geography/NJ.xls 2006-2010 American Community Survey Geography for New Jersey], [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed February 25, 2013.</ref><ref name=CPH232>[https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-32.pdf New Jersey: 2010 - Population and Housing Unit Counts - 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH-2-32)], [[United States Census Bureau]], August 2012. Accessed February 25, 2013.</ref> Other unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Catfish Pond, Duck Pond, Fairview Lake, Five Points, Lake Kathryn, [[Middleville, New Jersey|Middleville]], Mud Pond, Paulins Kill Lake, Quick Pond, Stillwater, [[Swartswood, New Jersey|Swartswood]], Swartswood Lake and Wintermutes Foundry.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/localnames.txt Locality Search], State of [[New Jersey]]. Accessed May 21, 2015.</ref> {{anchor|Stillwater}} Stillwater is a small one-street village in the area that was first settled by Johan Peter Bernhardt and his two sons-in-law, John George Wintermute and [[Casper Shafer]]. At the western terminus of end of Main Street where it meets [[County Route 521 (New Jersey)|County Route 521]], the [[Stillwater Presbyterian Church (Stillwater, New Jersey)|First Presbyterian Church of Stillwater]] is the dominant feature. As Main Street travels east, the Garris's General Store (1876), "Whitehall" (built in 1785 by Abraham Shafer), Casper Shafer's stonehouse ({{circa|1741}}), crossing the Paulins Kill near [[Casper and Abraham Shafer Grist Mill Complex|Shafer's grist mill]] (1764, 1844) and miller's house. An 1820 hostelry, the Stillwater Inn, recently was destroyed by fire. One half-mile (800 m) south of the Presbyterian church, is John George Wintermute's stonehouse (1755), his son Peter's stonehouse (1791). Located adjacent is [[Stillwater Cemetery (Stillwater, New Jersey)|Stillwater Cemetery]]βthe site of the original Lutheran-Calvinist union church (1771β1838), the graves of the towns earliest settlers, and many eighteenth century ethnic German gravestones.
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