The Mandeville Inn, located on the site of where the soldiers had camped during the war, was built in 1788 and was once owned by Garret Hobart, later Vice President of the United States. While Washington stayed at the Schuyler-Colfax House in nearby Pompton, unproven oral history states that he attended church services in the First Reformed Church located in Pompton Plains, also known as the Pompton Meeting House, which had been constructed in 1771. ĭuring the American Revolutionary War, both Comte de Rochambeau and George Washington's troops camped on what is now the site of the Pequannock Valley Middle School. Over time, several municipalities were split off from the township: Jefferson Township on FebruRockaway Township on ApBoonton Township on ApMontville Township on ApButler Borough on MaKinnelon Borough on MaLincoln Park Borough on Apand Riverdale Borough on April 17, 1923. The township was incorporated by the New Jersey Legislature's Township Act of 1798 as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships on February 21, 1798. Formed as "Poquanock Township" on March 25, 1740, as the county's largest township, what is now a 7.1-square-mile (18 km 2) bedroom community composed of Pompton Plains in its northern portion and old Pequannock in its southern was once a vast 176-square-mile (460 km 2) region of rural farmland settled by the Dutch after its purchase by Arent Schuyler and associates in 16. The name for the area goes back at least as far as March 1, 1720, when it was referred to as "Poquanick", a precinct in Hunterdon County. In the 2015 edition of "Best Places to Live" in New Jersey, Pequannock ranked 4th overall. It was then ranked 14th overall in the 2013 edition of "Best Places to Live". New Jersey Monthly ranked Pequannock Township as the "Best Bang for the Buck" in New Jersey and 9th overall in its 2011 edition of "Best Places to Live" in New Jersey. The name "Pompton" has been cited by some sources to mean "a place where they catch soft fish". The name "Pequannock", as used in the name of the township and of the Pequannock River, is thought to have been derived from the Lenni Lenape Native American word Paquettahhnuake, meaning "cleared land ready or being readied for cultivation". The primary community in the township is the census-designated place of Pompton Plains. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 15,571, an increase of 31 (+.2%) from the 2010 census count of 15,540, which in turn reflected an increase of 1,652 (+11.9%) from the 13,888 counted in the 2000 census.
Pequannock Township is a township in Morris County, in the U.S.
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