"The Baptist Meeting House was built c. 1761 on the old Quibbletown Gap Road (now Old Church Road), then disassembled and moved to its present site in 1785. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places."

In the 1930's Warren opened the Central School, consolidating its one-room schools. Although most of the former school buildings remain, only the Round Top (sometimes known as Mt. Horeb) School remains unchanged in appearance. It is now privately owned.

For more information about this and other one-room schools that were in Warren, refer to the article in our "Articles" section entitled One-Room Schools Become Homes.

"After the township acquired the Kirch House in 1980, volunteer members of the Historic Sites Committee saw to its restoration. A bee-hive oven, a walk-in fireplace, pine flooring, and a secret room that may have been a stopping-place on the pre-Civil War underground railroad are among its many features."

For more information about the Kirch-Ford house, refer to the article in our "Articles" section entitled l8th Century Home Placed on National Register of Historic Places.

The King George Inn, is located across the street
from the Mt. Bethel Meeting House. It was used
as a tavern and stage coach stop in the nineteenth
century. Both buildings were used for public
meetings in early days.

"The oldest portion of the King George Inn was built in the eighteenth century. In 1873 Jacob Blimm, then the proprietor, advertised a stage line from Plainfield to Mount Bethel. Josephine Schaeffer, who later sang at the Metropolitan Opera, lived here in the 1880s. In 1909, ..., the inn was frequented by city folk who came to enjoy the healthful country air."

For more information, refer to the article in our "Articles" section entitled How Old (Really) is the King George Inn?.

"The old Smalleytown School was built of fieldstone c. 1800. The large elm shown in [the montage view on our home page c. 1900] was planted as "guardian" of the pupils who studied there in 1842, the year the township acquired the land. The structure to the left was a stagecoach stop c. 1790."

"During the 1870s and 1880s, the Reverend David D. Smalley III taught forty pupils in this one-room schoolhouse. Closed in 1885, the building was a private home until it was removed in 1976 to Olde Towne Village in Piscataway."