Kingston Mill Historic District

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The Kingston Mill Historic District is a 49-acre (20 ha) historic district in Kingston, New Jersey. It consists of the historic Kingston Mill on the Millstone River and surrounding colonial and Federal-era structures, including several houses and an 18th-century stone bridge. It is notable for containing the home of Henry Greenland, likely the first European-built house in what is now Princeton, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its significance in engineering, exploration/settlement, industry, politics/government, and transportation. The district's territory is shared between Princeton, South Brunswick, and Franklin Township.

The area was first settled in 1683 when Henry Greenland established a tavern where a growing cart road met the Millstone River, likely building the first European settlement in the vicinity of what is now Princeton. Around the 1740s, Greenland's grandson Barefoot Brinson, sheriff of Middlesex and Somerset Counties, built the area's first gristmill and possibly housing for tenants on the property as the area became more settled and less remote. After Brinson's death, Jacob Skillman built a second mill on the property, as well as a house and shop.

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