Mount Rose, Hopewell, New Jersey
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Mount Rose or Mt. Rose is a village in Hopewell Township
, New Jersey
at the corner of Hopewell-Princeton Road and Pennington-Rocky Hill Road, named for a local gardener. The Mount Rose
section of Rocky Hill Ridge
through the village also takes it name from the gardener. Richard Stout opened the first general store in the village around 1822 and in 1830, Josiah Cook and Reuben Savidge opened a second store. The village was also later home to two shoe shops, a dressmaker, wheelwrights, a blacksmith, a harness shop, an agricultural implements warehouse, a post office and a steam sawmill. In its heyday the village had about twenty houses. Nathaniel Drake opened an applejack distillery in the village in the mid-19th century. He made and sold peach brandy, apple cider and apple whiskey. The Whiskey House (192 Pennington-Rocky Hill Road), the office building for the distillery and the only remaining Drake building in the village is listed on the township, state and national registers of historic places. The village's schoolhouse, a stone building east of the crossroads, was later replaced by a frame building on the southern end of the village, that is a private residence today. After 1880, the village began shrinking, due to the growth of nearby Hopewell It is planned that the Lawrence Hopewell Trail will go through the village.
Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey
As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 17,304. The racial makeup of the township was 86.7% White, 2.1% African American, 0.1% Native American, 8.9% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 0.5% from other races, and 1.7% from two or more races...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
at the corner of Hopewell-Princeton Road and Pennington-Rocky Hill Road, named for a local gardener. The Mount Rose
Mount Rose (New Jersey)
Mount Rose is a narrow section of the Rocky Hill Ridge in Hopewell Township, New Jersey which is 420 feet above sea level. The ridge's western end is at The Sourlands at Hopewell-Pennington Road and its eastern end is near Province Line Road. The ridge is a diabase intrusion and unlike many of...
section of Rocky Hill Ridge
Rocky Hill Ridge
Rocky Hill Ridge, also known as the Mount Lucas-Rocky Hill Ridge, named after Lucas Voorhees, an 18th century landowner, is a diabase trap rock ridge running west to east in the U.S. State of New Jersey. Diabase intrusions form Baldpate Mountain and Pennington Mountain, the Mount Rose extension of...
through the village also takes it name from the gardener. Richard Stout opened the first general store in the village around 1822 and in 1830, Josiah Cook and Reuben Savidge opened a second store. The village was also later home to two shoe shops, a dressmaker, wheelwrights, a blacksmith, a harness shop, an agricultural implements warehouse, a post office and a steam sawmill. In its heyday the village had about twenty houses. Nathaniel Drake opened an applejack distillery in the village in the mid-19th century. He made and sold peach brandy, apple cider and apple whiskey. The Whiskey House (192 Pennington-Rocky Hill Road), the office building for the distillery and the only remaining Drake building in the village is listed on the township, state and national registers of historic places. The village's schoolhouse, a stone building east of the crossroads, was later replaced by a frame building on the southern end of the village, that is a private residence today. After 1880, the village began shrinking, due to the growth of nearby Hopewell It is planned that the Lawrence Hopewell Trail will go through the village.