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Template:Short description Template:Other places Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox settlement Hopewell is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Centrally located within the Raritan Valley region, this historical settlement (and its neighboring township of the same name) is an exurban commuter suburb of New York City in the New York metropolitan area as defined by the United States Census Bureau.<ref>Capuzzo, Jill P. "Living In Hopewell, N.J.: It’s in New Jersey, but It Screams Vermont", The New York Times, November 18, 2007. Accessed November 28, 2023.</ref> As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,918,<ref name=LWD2020/> a decrease of 4 (−0.2%) from the 2010 census count of 1,922,<ref name=Census2010/><ref name=LWD2010/> which in turn had reflected a decline of 113 (−5.6%) from the 2,035 counted at the 2000 census.<ref>Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed May 1, 2023.</ref>
Hopewell was incorporated as by the New Jersey Legislature on April 14, 1891, from portions of Hopewell Township, based on the results of a referendum held on March 21, 1891. Additional portions of Hopewell Township were annexed in 1915 and the borough was reincorporated in 1924.<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 162. Accessed May 29, 2024.</ref>
History
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Colonial era
[edit]The Lenape tribe of Native Americans were the original inhabitants of the area that would later become Hopewell.<ref name=History>History and Historic Sites Template:Webarchive, Hopewell Borough. Accessed November 27, 2019.</ref> The first Colonial influence in Hopewell by European settlers was the purchase of a Template:Convert tract of land by Daniel Coxe a Royal British governor of West Jersey, in the latter half of the 17th century.Template:When All land in Hopewell can be traced back to this purchase.<ref>Seabrook, Jack and Lorraine. Images of America Hopewell Valley, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2000. Template:ISBN, pg. 19. "This and all other farms in Hopewell Valley could be traced all the way back to Daniel Coxe, original owner of the Template:Convert tract that was to become Hopewell Township."</ref> In 1691 Coxe, transferred his land to a company called The West Jersey Society of England, who intended to sell the land.<ref>Ege, Ralph Pioneers of Old Hopewell (1908), Race & Savidge, Hopewell, NJ, pg. 15. "In the year 1691, Dr. Daniel Coxe transferred the right of government of West Jersey to a company of proprietaries called 'The West Jersey Society of England,' for a valuable consideration."</ref> The society appointed an agent, Thomas Revell, to preside over the land and sell it to prospective buyers.<ref>Ege, Ralph. Pioneers of Old Hopewell (1908), Race & Savidge, Hopewell, NJ, p. 15. "This society appointed Thomas Revell their agent, and he claimed the right to sell lands and give deeds for the same in the name of the society."</ref> Revell then attracted settlers from New England, Long Island, and New Jersey falsely claiming that the land was fertile, and tame. However, the families that arrived in Hopewell only found vast stretches of wilderness.<ref>Ege, Ralph Pioneers of Old Hopewell (1908), Race & Savidge, Hopewell, NJ, pg 15. "Great inducements were held out to the New England and Long Island settlers as well as to those of the older portions of this state… to avail themselves of the cheap and fertile lands of the Template:Convert tract, and scores of them were induced to come and settle, only to find that after they had subdued the wilderness and established their homes, that their titles were utterly worthless."</ref> The first settler in Hopewell Valley was Thomas Tindall who on November 10, 1699, bought a Template:Convert tract of land from The West Jersey Society of England through Revell, for "ten pounds per hundred acres".<ref>Ege, Ralph Pioneers of Old Hopewell (1908), Race & Savidge, Hopewell, NJ, pg 13-14. "This Houghton tract was surveyed by Thomas Revell, agent for the West Jersey Society, for Thomas Tindall, on February 27, 1696, and was without doubt the first farm located in the Hopewell Valley. On November 10, 1699, a deed was given by Thomas Revell, agent for 'Ye Honorable The West Jersey Society in England' of the one part, and Thomas Tindall of the other part, for the above tract, the consideration being 'ten pounds per hundred acres,' or fifty cents per acre in US currency, which was the regulation price for all the societies lands of the 30,000-acre tract. The above deed describes the Template:Convert as a part of the 30,000-acre tract 'lying above ye fialls of ye Delaware.'"</ref> Other early settlers in Hopewell are said to be the Stouts, who immigrated from Holmdel to Hopewell in 1706, including Jonathan Stout, who had hunted in the area together with the Lenape.<ref name=History/><ref>Griffiths, Thomas Sharp, 'A History of Baptists in New Jersey'(1904), Barr Press Publishing Company, Hightstown, New Jersey, Ch. 5, pg 67, "Jonathan Stout, third son of Richard Stout, of Holmdel, a constituent of Middletown Church and who emigrated from Middletown (Holmdel) in 1706, the first settler of Hopewell"</ref> Perhaps the first conflict between colonists in Hopewell was the dispute between Revell and the early inhabitants of Hopewell, who realized that their deeds were worthless due to Revell's false claims. Fifty settlers then organized a class action lawsuit against Revell and the West Jersey Society. A lengthy trial was held in Burlington and the court ultimately ruled against the settlers, who were forced to repurchase their land or relocate. Many settlers weren't able to repay and moved north into North Jersey and New York.<ref>Ege, Ralph Pioneers of Old Hopewell (1908), Race & Savidge, Hopewell, NJ. "Fifty of these settlers (among whom is found the name of Thomas Houghton) entered into a solemn compact to stand by each other in a law suit with Dr. Coxe. After a long and tedious trial at Burlington, the case was decided against them, and this verdict caused the most distressing state of affairs in this township that was ever experienced in any community. Writs of ejectment had been served on them as 'tenants' of Dr. Coxe to pay for their lands the second time or 'quit.' Many of them went to the northern part of the county which at that time extended to the New York state line, the county of Hunterdon, including Warren, Morris and Sussex counties, and an examination of the records of those counties between 1735 and 1750, will reveal many names that are familiar to the people of old Hopewell."</ref>
On April 23, 1715, the settlers who stayed in Hopewell, most notably the Stout family, organized the Old School Baptist Church, and what is now known as Hopewell was then referred to as "Baptist Meetinghouse".<ref>Griffiths, Thomas Sharp, 'A History of Baptists in New Jersey'(1904), Barr Press Publishing Company, Hightstown, New Jersey, Ch. 5, pg 67, "The Church was organized at Mr. Stout's house, April 23rd, 1715, and worshipped for thirty-two years in the homes of the Stouts"</ref><ref>Valis, Glenn John Hart Signer of the Declaration of Independence', Accessed November 19, 2012. "Until well after the revolution, the area was thereafter call Baptist Meeting House."</ref> One of the most valued members of the meeting house was Declaration of Independence signer John Hart who in 1740 purchased Template:Convert of land in the north of current day Hopewell, and in 1747 as a sign of Hart's devotion to the Church, donated a plot of his land to the Baptists.<ref>Valis, Glenn 'John Hart Signer of the Declaration of Independence', Accessed November 19, 2012. "Around 1739-1740 John Hart bought the "homestead plantation" of Template:Convert on the north side of what is now the town of Hopewell".</ref><ref>History and Historic Sites Template:Webarchive, Hopewell Borough. Accessed January 9, 2017. "The first church (Baptist Church) was constructed in 1748".</ref> The next year the Baptists made good use of this land and in 1748 erected their Old School Baptist Church meeting house on West Broad Street. The meeting house brought in Baptists from miles around to Hopewell and encouraged Hopewell's early growth.<ref>Seabrook, Jack and Lorraine. Images of America Hopewell Valley, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2000. Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN pg 38, "The Old School Baptist Church... was a center for baptist from miles around.... Constructed in 1822, the building still stands... On West Broad Street"</ref>
Numerous lumber mills were established in and around Hopewell at this time to process the lumber that was generated from the clearing of forests for farms.
In 1756, Isaac Eaton the first pastor of the Old School Baptist Church established the Hopewell Academy. One of his students, James Manning, would go on to establish Brown University in 1765.<ref name=hope>Capuzzo, Jill P. "It's in New Jersey, but It Screams Vermont", The New York Times, November 18, 2007. Accessed June 1, 2015. "In 1756, the country's first Baptist secondary school, Hopewell Baptist Academy, was started here. Its graduates went on to found what became Brown University in Rhode Island."</ref>
Frog war
[edit]The first railroad to reach Hopewell was the Mercer and Somerset Railway, which was backed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was created largely to protect the monopoly the Pennsylvania Railroad had on New Jersey, by cutting off the first separately owned railroad in New Jersey, the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad, by being built in the way of it. It was completed in 1874. The Delaware and Bound Brook reached Hopewell in 1876, but the railroad had to cross the Mercer and Somerset's track just to the northwest of Hopewell. A dispute occurred at the crossing, known as a frog, and escalated into each company parking locomotives over the crossing to prevent the other company from moving trains over it. Eventually, militia had to be called in to keep the peace, and the Delaware and Bound Brook prevailed.<ref>Railroads of New Jersey Fragments of the past in the Garden State Landscape Lorett Treese 2006</ref> Soon after the Frog War the Mercer and Somerset was liquidated having failed at its purpose. Some of the abandoned right of way for the Mercer and Somerset in Hopewell became Model Avenue. The Delaware and Bound Brook was leased by the Philadelphia and Reading in 1879 for 999 years<ref>"The Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad", Gillette On Hillsborough, March 17, 2021. Accessed October 15, 2023. "On June 30, 1871, the Pennsylvania Railroad signed a 999-year lease with the United Companies allowing them to run trains over their tracks, but basically nothing else."</ref> and has become the CSX Trenton Line and is still in use today. The Frog is also what gives Hopewell Elementary school its mascot, "Freddy the Frog" in honor of the Hopewell frog war.<ref>HVRSD Elementary Schools Welcome Students on First Day of School Template:Webarchive, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed September 2, 2015. "Hopewell Elementary School's mascot Freddie the Frog poses with kindergartener Chase Garrow."</ref>
The Hopewell Herald
[edit]The main source of news for Hopewell Township prior to the 1960s was the Hopewell Herald, which was owned, operated, and published by the Savidge family of Hopewell.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Geography
[edit]According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had a total area of 0.72 square miles (1.87 km2), all of which was land.<ref name=CensusArea/><ref name=GR1 />
The borough is an independent municipality surrounded entirely by Hopewell Township,<ref>Areas touching Hopewell, MapIt. Accessed January 9, 2017.</ref> making it part one of 21 pairs of "doughnut towns" in the state, where one municipality entirely surrounds another.<ref>DeMarco, Megan. "Voters to decide whether to merge two Princetons into one", The Star-Ledger, November 3, 2011. Accessed January 8, 2017. "There are 22 sets of 'doughnut towns' in New Jersey, those where one town wraps around the other town". Note that following voter approval of the Princeton, New Jersey, merger, 21 pairs of "doughnut towns" remain.</ref><ref>Municipalities within Mercer County, NJ, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. Accessed November 15, 2019.</ref><ref>New Jersey Municipal Boundaries, New Jersey Department of Transportation. Accessed November 15, 2019.</ref>
Demographics
[edit]2010 census
[edit]The 2010 United States census counted 1,922 people, 778 households, and 532 families in the borough. The population density was 2,735.2 per square mile (1,056.1/km2). There were 817 housing units at an average density of 1,162.7 per square mile (448.9/km2). The racial makeup was 95.06% (1,827) White, 1.51% (29) Black or African American, 0.10% (2) Native American, 0.68% (13) Asian, 0.05% (1) Pacific Islander, 1.51% (29) from other races, and 1.09% (21) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.69% (71) of the population.<ref name=Census2010/>
Of the 778 households, 33.5% had children under the age of 18; 54.6% were married couples living together; 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present and 31.6% were non-families. Of all households, 25.4% were made up of individuals and 7.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.00.<ref name=Census2010/>
24.0% of the population were under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, 36.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42.8 years. For every 100 females, the population had 91.8 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 87.7 males.<ref name=Census2010/>
The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $105,417 (with a margin of error of +/− $8,866) and the median family income was $125,066 (+/− $15,420). Males had a median income of $91,375 (+/− $14,302) versus $55,357 (+/− $11,473) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $50,910 (+/− $5,465). About none of families and 0.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.<ref>DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Hopewell borough, Mercer County, New Jersey Template:Webarchive, United States Census Bureau. Accessed November 19, 2012.</ref>
2000 census
[edit]As of the 2000 United States census<ref name="GR2" /> there were 2,035 people, 813 households, and 561 families residing in the borough. The population density was Template:Convert. There were 836 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert. The racial makeup of the borough was 95.43% White, 1.08% African American, 0.49% Native American, 0.98% Asian, 1.23% from other races, and 0.79% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.31% of the population.<ref name=Census2000>Census 2000 Profiles of Demographic / Social / Economic / Housing Characteristics for Hopewell borough, New Jersey Template:Webarchive, United States Census Bureau. Accessed November 19, 2012.</ref><ref name=Census2000SF1>DP-1: Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 - Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data for Hopewell borough, Mercer County, New Jersey Template:Webarchive, United States Census Bureau. Accessed November 19, 2012.</ref>
There were 813 households, out of which 36.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.0% were married couples living together, 11.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.9% were non-families. 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.01.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>
In the borough, the population was spread out, with 26.1% under the age of 18, 4.7% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 27.9% from 45 to 64, and 10.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.3 males.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>
The median income for a household in the borough was $77,270, and the median income for a family was $91,205. Males had a median income of $52,656 versus $47,315 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $38,413. None of the families and 2.1% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 5.2% of those over 64.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>
Arts and culture
[edit]The Hopewell Museum documents life in the borough, with many artifacts collected from area residents.<ref>Hopewell Museum, Visit New Jersey. Accessed February 23, 2025. "The Museum preserves and displays what is interesting of village life in America from its colonial beginnings to the present. Most of its treasures have been drawn from homes in the surrounding area."</ref>
Government
[edit]Local government
[edit]Hopewell is governed under the borough form of New Jersey municipal government, which is used in 218 municipalities (of the 564) statewide, making it the most common form of government in New Jersey.<ref>Inventory of Municipal Forms of Government in New Jersey, Rutgers University Center for Government Studies, July 1, 2011. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The governing body is comprised of the mayor and the borough council, with all positions elected at-large on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. The mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The borough council includes six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle.<ref name=DataBook>2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 73.</ref> The borough form of government used by Hopewell is a "weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie. The mayor can veto ordinances subject to an override by a two-thirds majority vote of the council. The mayor makes committee and liaison assignments for council members, and most appointments are made by the mayor with the advice and consent of the council.<ref>Cerra, Michael F. "Forms of Government: Everything You've Always Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask" Template:Webarchive, New Jersey State League of Municipalities. Accessed November 30, 2014.</ref><ref>"Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey", p. 6. Rutgers University Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> All legislative powers of the Borough of Hopewell are exercised by the borough council in the form of a resolution, ordinance or proclamation.<ref>Borough Government Template:Webarchive, Borough of Hopewell. Accessed October 10, 2006.</ref>
Template:As of, the mayor of Hopewell is Democrat Paul Anzano, whose term expires December 31, 2023. Members of the borough council are Council President Charles Schuyler "Sky" Morehouse (R, 2023), Ryan Kennedy (D, 2023), David Mackie (D, 2025), Samara McAuliffe (D, 2024), Debra Stuhler (D, 2024) and Krista Weaver (D, 2025).<ref name=MayorCouncil>Mayor and Borough Council, Hopewell Borough. Accessed April 23, 2023. "Hopewell Borough operates under the Borough form of government and has done so since 1891. The major components to this system of government are the Mayor/Council and a Borough Administrator. The Borough Council is the legislative body, establishing town policies, while the Borough Administrator is designated to carry out the directives of the Mayor and Council. Our Borough Council consists six at large Council members who serve 3 year terms. The Mayor is separately elected and serves a 4 year term."</ref><ref>2022 Municipal Data Sheet, Hopewell Borough. Accessed May 5, 2022.</ref><ref name=MercerOfficials>Mercer County Elected Officials, Mercer County, New Jersey, as of January 2022. Accessed February 24, 2023.</ref><ref name=Mercer2022>General Election November 8, 2022 Results, Mercer County, New Jersey Clerk, updated November 8, 2022. Accessed January 1, 2023.</ref><ref name=Mercer2021>General Election November 2, 2021 Official Results, Mercer County, New Jersey, updated November 20, 2021. Accessed January 1, 2022.</ref><ref name=Mercer2020>General Election November 3, 2020 Official Results, Mercer County, New Jersey, updated November 20, 2020. Accessed January 1, 2021.</ref><ref name=Mercer2019>General Election November 2019 Official Results (Amended November 25, 2019), Mercer County, New Jersey, updated December 9, 2019. Accessed January 1, 2020.</ref>
Public library
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The Hopewell Public Library was founded March 14, 1914, and was originally located at Broad and Mercer Streets in an old harness shop. The Hopewell Post Office had replaced the old bank building in 1915 and the Hopewell Public Library moved to its current location in the old Hopewell National Bank building in 1965.<ref name="hundred">Johnson, Kelley. "Hopewell library looks for a more compliant work space as it celebrates 100th birthday", The Times, March 18, 2014, updated March 29, 2019. Accessed November 27, 2019. "The current red building was erected in 1890 and served as a home for the Hopewell National Bank. The library was founded inside an old harness shop on March 14, 1914, moved into a museum building in the 1920s and later moved to the current location in the old bank building."</ref>
In 2014, the library began looking for a new space, citing the lack of a parking lot and non-ADA compliant steps an issue with serving the general public.<ref name="hundred" /> The library estimated that it needed to raise $1.2 million to cover the cost of the new building.<ref>Galioto, Mary. "Hopewell Boro Library Expansion and Relocation Proposed", MercerMe, March 11, 2014, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 11, 2014. Accessed November 27, 2019. "In order to fund such an undertaking, the HPL Board proposed a major multi-year capital fundraising campaign with a goal of $1.2 million for the construction and renovations, through private gifts, grants, and fundraising events."</ref>
Federal, state and county representation
[edit]Hopewell Borough is located in the 12th Congressional District<ref name=PCR2012>Plan Components Report, New Jersey Redistricting Commission, December 23, 2011. Accessed February 1, 2020.</ref> and is part of New Jersey's 15th state legislative district.<ref name=Districts2011>Municipalities Sorted by 2011-2020 Legislative District, New Jersey Department of State. Accessed February 1, 2020.</ref><ref name=LWV2019>2019 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government, New Jersey League of Women Voters. Accessed October 30, 2019.</ref><ref>Districts by Number for 2011-2020, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed January 6, 2013.</ref>
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Politics
[edit]As of March 2011, there were a total of 1,473 registered voters in Hopewell Borough, of which 664 (45.1%) were registered as Democrats, 264 (17.9%) were registered as Republicans and 544 (36.9%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There was one voter registered to the Green Party.<ref>Voter Registration Summary - Mercer, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, March 23, 2011. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref>
| Year | Republican | Democratic | Third Parties |
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| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2024<ref name="2024Elections">Template:Cite web</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|19.3% 240 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|79.2% 985 | 1.5% 19 |
| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2020<ref name="2020Elections">Template:Cite web</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|18.5% 245 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|80.1% 1,060 | 1.4% 18 |
| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2016<ref name="2016Elections">Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|22.6% 274 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|72.3% 879 | 5.1% 62 |
| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2012<ref name="2012Elections">Template:Cite web</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|27.4% 313 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|71.4% 815 | 1.1% 13 |
| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2008<ref name="state.nj.us">2008 Presidential General Election Results: Mercer County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 23, 2008. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|26.0% 305 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|71.7% 841 | 1.3% 15 |
| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2004<ref name="Presidential Election 2004">2004 Presidential Election: Mercer County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 13, 2004. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|33.1% 395 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|66.1% 789 | 0.8% 9 |
In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 71.4% of the vote (815 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 27.4% (313 votes), and other candidates with 1.1% (13 votes), among the 1,256 ballots cast by the borough's 1,530 registered voters (115 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 82.1%.<ref name=2012Elections/><ref name=2012VoterReg>Template:Cite web</ref> In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 71.7% of the vote (841 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain with 26.0% (305 votes) and other candidates with 1.3% (15 votes), among the 1,173 ballots cast by the borough's 1,493 registered voters, for a turnout of 78.6%.<ref name="state.nj.us"/> In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 65.0% of the vote (789 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush with 32.6% (395 votes) and other candidates with 0.6% (9 votes), among the 1,213 ballots cast by the borough's 1,437 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 84.4.<ref name="Presidential Election 2004"/>
| Year | Republican | Democratic | Third Parties |
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| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2021<ref name="2021Elections">Template:Cite web</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|21.7% 207 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|77.0% 735 | 1.3% 12 |
| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2017<ref name="2017Elections">Template:Cite web</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|23.3% 188 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|75.5% 609 | 1.2% 10 |
| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2013<ref name="2013Elections">Template:Cite web</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|44.0% 344 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|53.3% 416 | 2.7% 21 |
| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2009<ref name="2009 Governor: Mercer County">2009 Governor: Mercer County Template:Webarchive, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 31, 2009. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|32.3% 291 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|56.7% 511 | 10.6% 95 |
| style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2005<ref>2005 Governor: Mercer County Template:Webarchive, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections. Accessed December 31, 2017.</ref> | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|31.8% 265 | style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|65.1% 542 | 3.0% 25 |
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Democrat Barbara Buono received 53.3% of the vote (416 cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 44.0% (344 votes), and other candidates with 2.7% (21 votes), among the 792 ballots cast by the borough's 1,518 registered voters (11 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 52.2%.<ref name=2013Elections/><ref name=2013VoterReg>Template:Cite web</ref> In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 56.7% of the vote (511 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 32.3% (291 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 10.0% (90 votes) and other candidates with 0.6% (5 votes), among the 902 ballots cast by the borough's 1,466 registered voters, yielding a 61.5% turnout.<ref name="2009 Governor: Mercer County"/>
Education
[edit]Public school students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade attend the Hopewell Valley Regional School District.<ref name=MercerSchools>2017-2018 Mercer County Charter and Public Schools Directory, Mercer County, New Jersey. Accessed November 15, 2019.</ref> The comprehensive regional public school district serves students from Hopewell Borough, Hopewell Township and Pennington Borough.<ref>Hopewell Valley Regional School District 2016 Report Card Narrative Template:Webarchive, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 25, 2017. "Hopewell Valley serves the two boroughs of Pennington and Hopewell and the much larger Hopewell Township, and encompasses a total area of nearly 60 square miles with a population that exceeds 20,000. There are six schools that comprise the district. (Four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school.) District enrollment is currently 3,750 students."</ref><ref>About Us Template:Webarchive, Hopewell Valley Regional High School. Accessed September 25, 2017. "Hopewell Valley Regional School District, as it functions today, has been a regionalized operation since 1965 when voters of Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough approved a plan to consolidate their schools. But the first consolidation of local schools actually occurred in 1894 when the 14 separate districts, operating one-room schoolhouses throughout the valley, agreed to merge and be governed by a single school board."</ref> As of the 2019–20 school year, the district, comprised of six schools, had an enrollment of 3,467 students and 351.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.9:1.<ref name=NCES>District information for Hopewell Valley Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2021.</ref> Schools in the district (with 2019–20 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics<ref>School Data for the Hopewell Valley Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2021.</ref>) are Bear Tavern Elementary School<ref>Bear Tavern Elementary School, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed February 8, 2022.</ref> with 397 students in grades Pre-K–5, Hopewell Elementary School<ref>Hopewell Elementary School, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed February 8, 2022.</ref> with 400 students in grades Pre-K–5, Stony Brook Elementary School<ref>Stony Brook Elementary School, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed February 8, 2022.</ref> with 378 students in grades K–5, Toll Gate Grammar School<ref>Toll Gate Grammar School, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed February 8, 2022.</ref> with 306 students in grades K–5, Timberlane Middle School<ref>Timberlane Middle School, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed February 8, 2022.</ref> with 820 students in grades 6–8 and Hopewell Valley Central High School<ref>Hopewell Valley Central High School, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed February 8, 2022.</ref> with 1,097 students in grades 9–12.<ref>School Performance Reports for the Hopewell Valley Regional School DistrictTemplate:Dead link, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 1, 2024.</ref><ref>New Jersey School Directory for the Hopewell Valley Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> Elementary school students from Hopewell Borough attend Hopewell Elementary School. The district's board of education is comprised of nine members allocated to each of the three municipalities based on population, with Hopewell assigned a single seat.<ref>About the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education Template:Webarchive, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed November 27, 2019. "The Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education is a nine-member body elected by the residents of Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough. Seats are apportioned by population. Hopewell Township has seven representatives; each borough is represented by one seat.... The Hopewell Valley Regional School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Borough of Pennington, Hopewell Borough, and Hopewell Township."</ref>
Eighth grade students from all of Mercer County are eligible to apply to attend the high school programs offered by the Mercer County Technical Schools, a county-wide vocational school district that offers full-time career and technical education at its Health Sciences Academy, STEM Academy and Academy of Culinary Arts, with no tuition charged to students for attendance.<ref>Heyboer, Kelly. "How to get your kid a seat in one of N.J.'s hardest-to-get-into high schools", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 2017. Accessed November 18, 2019. "Mercer County has a stand-alone specialized high school for top students: a Health Sciences Academy at the district's Assunpink Center campus. The district also offers a STEM Academy at Mercer County Community College. How to apply: Students can apply online in the fall of their 8th grade year."</ref><ref>High School Programs Template:Webarchive, Mercer County Technical Schools. Accessed November 18, 2019.</ref>
Transportation
[edit]Roads and highways
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Template:As of, the borough had a total of Template:Convert of roadways, of which Template:Convert were maintained by the municipality and Template:Convert by Mercer County.<ref>Mercer County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, New Jersey Department of Transportation, May 2010. Accessed July 18, 2014.</ref>
Hopewell has four major roads that travel through it.<ref>Mercer County Highway Map, New Jersey Department of Transportation. Accessed March 7, 2023.</ref>
- County Route 518 enters Hopewell from due west having come from Lambertville and then turns slightly northward, joining West Broad Street. Route 518 then runs through Hopewell and exits Hopewell in the East and heads towards Rocky Hill.<ref>County Route 518 Straight Line Diagram, New Jersey Department of Transportation, updated October 2012. Accessed March 7, 2023.</ref>
- Pennington Hopewell Road (County Route 654) enters Hopewell from roughly the southwest, and immediately becomes West Broad Street when it enters Hopewell. It connects Hopewell with Pennington to the south.<ref>Mercer County Route 654 Straight Line Diagram, New Jersey Department of Transportation, updated May 2011. Accessed March 7, 2023.</ref>
- Princeton Avenue, County Route 569 starts at Broad Street and continues south and becomes Hopewell-Princeton Road, and connects Hopewell with Princeton.<ref>County Route 569 Straight Line Diagram, New Jersey Department of Transportation, updated October 2012. Accessed March 7, 2023.</ref>
- Greenwood Avenue runs north out of Hopewell and connects Hopewell with East Amwell Township.
Route 31 is accessible via Route 518 and Route 654.
Rail
[edit]NJ Transit is planning to restore passenger commuter rail service to Hopewell on the West Trenton Line. NJ Transit plans to use the existing one-track right of way that CSX owns through Hopewell, the former four-track Reading Company Trenton Line. The proposed plan includes double tracking most of the CSX line to increase capacity and construction of a new rail station on Somerset Street. The use of the historic Hopewell Station is not under consideration in this current proposal. The line would connect Hopewell with New York City, as well as Philadelphia via a SEPTA connection in West Trenton and restore service to Hopewell, which ended in 1982.<ref>System Expansion Projects - West Trenton Line Template:Webarchive, NJ Transit. Accessed November 27, 2019.</ref><ref>Proposed Restoration of Passenger Service on the West Trenton Line Template:Webarchive, NJ Transit. Accessed November 27, 2019.</ref>
Climate
[edit]According to the Köppen climate classification system, Hopewell Borough has a Hot-summer Humid continental climate (Dfa).
Ecology
[edit]According to the A. W. Kuchler U.S. potential natural vegetation types, Hopewell Borough would have a dominant vegetation type of Appalachian Oak (104) with a dominant vegetation form of Eastern Hardwood Forest (25).<ref name="Conservation Biology Institute">U.S. Potential Natural Vegetation, Original Kuchler Types, v2.0 (Spatially Adjusted to Correct Geometric Distortions), Data Basin, Accessed November 26, 2019.</ref>
Notable people
[edit]Template:Category see also People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Hopewell include:
- Danielia Cotton (born 1967), singer-songwriter<ref>LaGorce, Tammy. "Music Preview; Not Quite Yasgur's Farm, But Close", The New York Times, May 28, 2006. Accessed October 10, 2018. "It's also why Danielia Cotton, a blues-rocker from Hopewell, will stomp around with an electric guitar not far from where the Philadelphia techno-dobro artist Slo-Mo will transmit Beck-like musical signals."</ref>
- John Hart (Template:Circa–1779), signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, whose grave is located in the First Baptist Church graveyard on Broad Street<ref>Reilly, Matthew. "Leaderlessness reigns in town 3 times over", The Star-Ledger, November 17, 2000. Accessed January 4, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "And the home of John Hart, the signer, still stands in Hopewell Borough. There's also a Hart Avenue. in the borough, named after the revolutionary Hart. 'That's where his home was,' said John Hart. 'His house is still - there, a big old brick house.'"</ref>
- Amy Locane (born 1971), television and film actress who appeared in John Waters' 1990 musical comedy Cry-Baby and in the first season of the prime time soap opera Melrose Place<ref>Abdur-Rahman, Sulaiman. "Former Melrose Place actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer of Hopewell indicted in fatal crash", The Trentonian, December 16, 2010. Accessed November 12, 2017. "A Somerset County grand jury indicted the former Melrose Place soap star on first degree aggravated manslaughter and third degree assault by automobile charges, county Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said. Locane-Bovenizer, 39, of Hopewell, crashed her 2007 Chevy Tahoe into the passenger's side of a 2010 Mercury Milan driven by 60-year-old Fred Seeman as he pulled into a driveway in Montgomery Township, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office."</ref>
- Josiah Lincoln Lowe (1905–1997), mycologist who served as president of the Mycological Society of America<ref>Ginns, J.; and Worrall, J. "Josiah Lincoln Lowe, 1905–1997", Mycologia, March/April 2003 vol. 95 no. 2 374-378. Accessed September 2, 2015. "Born February 13, 1905, to Josiah A. and Anna Case Lowe in Hopewell, New Jersey, Lowe was one of 13 children."</ref>
- Leo Halpin Mahony (born 1931), architect of Mahony & Zvosec<ref>Mahony & Zvosec Template:Webarchive, American Architects Directory, Third Edition (New York City: R. R. Bowker LLC, 1970), p. 589.</ref>
- James W. Marshall (1810–1885), sawmill operator, whose 1848 find of gold in the American River in California was the impetus for the California Gold Rush<ref>From Mexican Days to Gold Rush: Memoirs of...Who Grew Up with California. Edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr by Marshall, James Wilson & Edward Gould Buffum, accessed April 17, 2007. "Marshall was born at Hopewell, NJ, went to California in 1845, participated in the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt, and discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848."</ref>
- Richard Preston (born 1954), author of The Hot Zone<ref>Donahue, Deirdre. "Richard Preston will press your buttons in 'Panic in Level 4'", USA Today, June 16, 2008. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Author Richard Preston at the 75-acre farm where he lives in Hopewell, N.J."</ref>
- Keith Robertson (1914–1991), author of children's literature<ref>via Associated Press. "Keith Robertson, author", Bangor Daily News, October 1, 1991. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Keith Carlton Robertson, who wrote the Henry Reed series of children's books, has died of cancer. He was 77. He died Sept. 23 at his home in Hopewell."</ref>
- Jonathan Williams (born 1984/85), politician who has represented the Washington-3 district in the Vermont House of Representatives since 2023<ref>"Local resident joins Peace Corps; Williams bound for Morocco", CentralJersey.com, March 6, 2008. Accessed February 6, 2024. "Jonathan Lisle Williams, 23, of Hopewell, has been accepted into the Peace Corps."</ref>
References
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