Not to be confused with Spruce Run Recreation Area. For other uses, see Spruce Run.
Spruce Run, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
Spruce Run Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church
Spruce Run Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church
Spruce Run is located in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Spruce Run
Spruce Run
Spruce Run is located in New Jersey
Spruce Run
Spruce Run
Spruce Run is located in the United States
Spruce Run
Spruce Run
Coordinates: 40°42′31″N 74°55′20″W / 40.70861°N 74.92222°W / 40.70861; -74.92222[1]
Country United States
State New Jersey
CountyHunterdon
TownshipLebanon
Elevation
[1]
715 ft (218 m)
GNIS feature ID883456[1]

Spruce Run is an unincorporated community located along County Route 628 (Hill Road) and Spruce Run Road within Lebanon Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.[2] It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Glen Gardner.[3]

History

A school house was built here in 1766. Subsequent ones were built in 1825 and 1874.[4] In 1800, the Lutheran and Reformed congregations built a union church.[5] The current Spruce Run Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church was built in 1870.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Spruce Run". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ "Hunterdon County Route 628 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. p. 1.
  3. 1 2 Snell, James P. (1881). "Spruce Run Lutheran Church". History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey. Everts & Peck. pp. 452–453.
  4. ↑ Snell (1881), p. 454.
  5. ↑ Chambers, Theodore Frelinghuysen (1895). "Spruce Run Lutheran Church". The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies. Dover Printing Company. pp. 221–222.


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