| Bernardsville, New Jersey | |
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| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| County | Somerset |
| Area | |
| - Total | 12.9 sq mi (33.5 km²) |
| - Land | 12.9 sq mi (33.5 km²) |
| - Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km²) |
| Elevation | 397 ft (121 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| - Total | 7,345 |
| - Density | 568.1/sq mi (219.3/km²) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 07924 |
| Area code(s) | 908 |
| FIPS code | 34-05590GR2 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0874698GR3 |
Bernardsville is a Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 7,345. Bernardsville was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1924, from portions of Bernards Township, based on the results of a referendum held on April 29, 1924.[1] It has been said that the horse head scene from The Godfather took place originally on Hardscrabble Road.
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Geography
Bernardsville is located at (40.718800, -74.577675)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 12.9 square miles (33.5 km²), of which, 12.9 square miles (33.5 km²) of it is land and 0.08% is water.
Demographics
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1930 | 3,336 |
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| 1940 | 3,405 | 2.1% | |
| 1950 | 3,956 | 16.2% | |
| 1960 | 5,515 | 39.4% | |
| 1970 | 6,652 | 20.6% | |
| 1980 | 6,715 | 0.9% | |
| 1990 | 6,597 | -1.8% | |
| 2000 | 7,345 | 11.3% | |
| Est. 2006 | 7,688 | [2] | 4.7% |
| Population 1930 - 1990.[3] | |||
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 7,345 people, 2,723 households, and 2,050 families residing in the borough. The population density was 568.1 people per square mile (219.3/km²). There were 2,807 housing units at an average density of 217.1/sq mi (83.8/km²). The racial makeup of the borough was 93.94% White, 0.25% African American, 0.15% Native American, 2.64% Asian, 1.55% from other races, and 1.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.98% of the population. There were 2,723 households out of which 35.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.2% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.7% were non-families. 21.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.12. In the borough the population was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 4.5% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 28.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 96.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.3 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $104,162, and the median income for a family was $126,601. Males had a median income of $91,842 versus $50,732 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $69,854. About 1.6% of families and 2.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.3% of those under age 18 and 2.5% of those age 65 or over.
Government
Local government
Bernardsville is governed by a Mayor and a six-member Borough Council. The Mayor of Bernardsville is Lee C. Honecker. Members of the Borough Council are Council President Denis J. Dooley, II, Charlotte Foster, Michael Landau, John McCrossan, Joseph Rossi, Jr. and Mikael Salovaara.[4]
Federal, state and county representation
Bernardsville is in the Seventh Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 16th Legislative District.[5] New Jersey's Seventh Congressional District, covering portions of Hunterdon County, Middlesex County, Somerset County and Union County, is represented by Mike Ferguson (R). New Jersey is represented in the Senate by Frank Lautenberg (D, Cliffside Park) and Bob Menendez (D, Hoboken). The 16th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Walter Kavanaugh (R, Somerville) and in the Assembly by Christopher Bateman (R, Somerville) and Peter J. Biondi (R, Somerville). The Governor of New Jersey is Jon Corzine (D, Hoboken). Somerset County is governed by a five-member Board of Chosen Freeholders. Somerset County's Freeholders are: Freeholder Director Rick Fontana, Freeholder Deputy Director Ken Scherer, Denise Coyle, Peter S. Palmer and Robert Zaborowski.
Education
Public school students in grades K - 12 attend the schools of the Somerset Hills Regional School District, a regional school district serving students from Bernardsville, Far Hills and Peapack-Gladstone. For grades 9 through 12, students from Bedminster are sent to the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship. The three schools in the district, all located in Bernardsville, are Bedwell Elementary School (K - 4), Bernardsville Middle School (5 - 8) and Bernards High School (9 - 12).
History
Bernardsville was originally a section of Bernards Township known as Vealtown. In 1840, Vealtown became Bernardsville, named after Sir Francis Bernard, Colonial governor of New Jersey from 1758 to 1760. Nestled in the northern most part of Somerset County, just 12 miles south of Morristown, this rustic community sits in some of the last vestiges of the Great Eastern Forest. After the Civil War, many wealthy and prominent New Yorkers moved into the area, first as summer visitors, then as permanent residents of the Bernardsville Mountain. The railroad line was built through Bernardsville in 1872 and played an important role in the borough's development. Bernardsville did not become an independent municipality until 1924, when it split from Bernards Township.
Notable residents
Notable current and former residents of Bernardsville include:
- Brooke Astor (1902-2007), lived here during here marriage to John Dryden Kuser.[6]
- Ernest Duncan (1916-1990), mathematician.[7]
- Marc Ecko (1972-), fashion designer and entrepreneur.[8]
- Millicent Fenwick, U.S. Congresswoman, United States representative to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.[9]
- Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, architect.[10]
- Andrew McCarthy, actor.[11]
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former first lady.[12]
- Donald Roebling, inventor of the amphtrack.[13]
- John A. Roebling II, financier.[13]
- Meryl Streep, actress.[14]
- Mike Tyson and Robin Givens.[15]
References
- ^ "The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 222.
- ^ Census data for Bernardsville borough, United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 19, 2007.
- ^ Jersey Resident Population by Municipality: 1930 - 1990, Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network. Accessed March 1, 2007.
- ^ Bernardsville Borough Mayor and Council, Bernardsville Borough. Accessed February 18, 2007.
- ^ 2006 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government, New Jersey League of Women Voters, p. 54. Accessed August 30, 2006.
- ^ Miller, Judith. "Old Money, New Needs", The New York Times, November 17, 1991. Accessed November 4, 2007. "Eventually Kuser fell in love with another woman and left his wife. She moved from Bernardsville, N.J., to New York and took up a career writing features and book reviews, and eventually became an editor at House & Garden."
- ^ "Dr. Ernest Duncan, 74, Mathematics Professor", The New York Times, November 28, 1990. Accessed November 4, 2007. "Dr. Ernest R. Duncan, professor emeritus of mathematics at Rutgers University and the author of several mathematics textbooks, died on Sunday at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. He was 74 years old and lived in Bernardsville, N.J. He died of leukemia, his family said."
- ^ Rockland, Kate. "BY THE WAY; A Monument to Sagging", The New York Times, June 12, 2006. Accessed January 3, 2008.
- ^ Millicent Hammond Fenwick Congressional biography, accessed April 8, 2007. "was a resident of Bernardsville, N.J., until her death there on September 16, 1992."
- ^ Streetscapes/Henry Janeway Hardenbergh; An Architect Who Left an Indelible Imprint, The New York Times by Christopher Gray, May 7, 2000. "He alternated living in New York and New Jersey, at first at 121 West 73rd Street, in Jersey City and Bernardsville, and in a big town house of his own design at 12 East 56th Street."
- ^ Andrew McCarthy bio, TV.com, accessed April 12, 2007. "At 16, he moved to Bernardsville, where he attended a prep school called the Pingry School."
- ^ If You're Thinking of Living In/Peapack and Gladstone; Fox-Hunting and High-Priced Homes, The New York Times, August 7, 1994. "She does have a story about Aristotle Onassis, who rented a home in neighboring Bernardsville with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis."
- ^ a b Roan, Richard W. "Roebling's Amphibian: The Origin Of The Assault Amphibian", accessed April 12, 2007. "By the end of World War I, John A. Roebling II had concentrated his efforts on banking and the management of the Roebling family fortune, leaving the leadership of the John A. Roebling's Sons plants to other family members. John and his wife, Margaret, built a sprawling estate called the Boulderwood Mansion in Bernardsville, New Jersey, only thirty miles west of John's office complex in New York City.... Donald Roebling was born in New York City on 15 November 1908. Young Roebling, strong-willed, temperamental, and overweight, spent his childhood in the luxury of his parents' Bernardsville, New Jersey, mansion."
- ^ AFI Award: Meryl Streep, The Hollywood Reporter by Wolf Schneider, June 10, 2004. "A New Jersey girl made good, Streep grew up middle-class and mousy-haired in Summit and Bernardsville, suburbs in which those around her would remember Streep as a bossy child."
- ^ Mike Tyson Chronology, USA Today, June 12, 2005. "Oct. 2, 1988 — Police go to Tyson's Bernardsville, N.J., home after he hurls furniture out the window and forces Givens and her mother to flee the house."
External links
- Bernardsville official web site
- Somerset Hills School District
- Somerset Hills School District's 2005-06 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- National Center for Education Statistics data for the Somerset Hills School District
- The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills
- Bernardsville, New Jersey is at coordinates Coordinates:
- Brief History of Bernardsville
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Somerset County, New Jersey |
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| County seat: Somerville | ||
| Boroughs |
Bernardsville | Bound Brook | Far Hills | Manville | Millstone | North Plainfield | Peapack-Gladstone | Raritan | Rocky Hill | Somerville | South Bound Brook | Watchung |
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| Townships |
Bedminster | Bernards | Branchburg | Bridgewater | Franklin | Green Brook | Hillsborough | Montgomery | Warren |
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| Communities |
Basking Ridge | Belle Mead | Blackwells Mills | Blawenburg | East Millstone | Flagtown | Griggstown | Harlingen | Lamington | Martinsville | Middlebush | Neshanic | North Branch | Pleasant Plains | Six Mile Run | South Branch | Zarephath |
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