⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking tour of Bound Brook, New Jersey

Описание: January 27, 2024 - 1:30 PM
47°F / 8°C

Walking tour of Bound Brook in Somerset County, New Jersey via the following route: Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park → Queen's Bridge → westbound on Main Street → northbound on Mountain Avenue → eastbound on East 2nd Street → northbound on Maiden Lane → eastbound on East High Street → southbond on Hamilton Avenue. Filmed with GoPro Hero 12.

Highlights:
00:00 - Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, Lock 11
04:49 - Queen's Bridge, crossing the Raritan River
07:22 - Passing underneath NJ Transit Raritan Valley Line railroad tracks
07:56 - Bound Brook Circle
08:24 - Walking westbound on Main Street
10:31 - Downtown Bound Brook Christmas tree
10:54 - Bound Brook NJ Transit train station
13:11 - Walking northbound on Mountain Avenue
14:27 - Walking eastbound on East 2nd Street, Mohring Place apartment building
15:35 - Walking northbound on Maiden Lane
16:52 - Walking eastbound on East High Street
17:42 - Bound Brook Public Library, walking southbound on Hamilton Avenue
19:32 - Brook Arts Center

From Wikipedia:
"Bound Brook is a borough in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located along the Raritan River. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 11,988, an increase of 1,586 (+15.2%) from the 2010 census count of 10,402, which in turn reflected an increase of 247 (+2.4%) from the 10,155 counted in the 2000 census, .

Bound Brook was originally incorporated as a town by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 24, 1869, within portions of Bridgewater Township. On February 11, 1891, it was reincorporated as a borough, based on the results of a referendum held on the previous day.

The area was first settled in 1681 and a community was established near the Bound Brook stream of the same name, which flows into the Raritan River via the Green Brook on the eastern side of the borough. The brook, which was mentioned as a boundary in a Native American deed, provides the source of the borough's name.

A wooden bridge over the Raritan River was erected as early as 1761 and named Queen's Bridge in 1767. Later, it became a covered bridge. During the American Revolutionary War, the bridge was used repeatedly by both sides including during the Battle of Bound Brook in 1777. In 1875, the wooden bridge was replaced by a steel pipe truss bridge. More than 100 years later, that bridge was itself replaced by a steel girder bridge in 1984, still using the old pillars. The bridge was renovated and repaved in 2007.

The Battle of Bound Brook, one of the battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign during the American Revolutionary War, occurred on April 13, 1777, and resulted in a defeat for the Continental Army, who were routed by about 4,000 troops under British command.

On April 22, 1921, over 100 people were injured in Bound Brook, and one died, when a cloud of phosgene gas began spreading over the city in the early morning hours, the result of a faulty valve of a storage tank at a paint factory in town. The intervention of four people stopped further escape of the phosgene, which had been used in concentrated form as a chemical weapon during World War I."