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Old Bridge

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Old Bridge

Town in Middlesex County, eastern New Jersey, USA, 11 km/7 mi southeast of New Brunswick; population (1990) 56,500. An agricultural community until the 1950s, its residential areas expanded rapidly in the 1980s at the expense of the surrounding farmland, though some has survived. The Laurence Harbor district on Raritan Bay was a popular beachfront community in the 1920s. Cheesequake State Park lies nearby.

Old Bridge was established by English, Scottish, and French Huguenot settlers, and was separated from South Amboy in 1869. During the 19th century grain and lumber mills were established in the township. It was named Old Bridge in 1976.



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Philip in the daytime had been led by curiosity to pass through the little street near the old bridge, with its neat white houses and green shutters, in which according to Hayward the Fraulein Trude lived; but the women, with brutal faces and painted cheeks, who came out of their doors and cried out to him, filled him with fear; and he fled in horror from the rough hands that sought to detain him.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
When Lady Russell not long afterwards, was entering Bath on a wet afternoon, and driving through the long course of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden Place, amidst the dash of other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays, the bawling of newspapermen, muffin-men and milkmen, and the ceaseless clink of pattens, she made no complaint.
Persuasion by Austen, Jane View in context
We had crossed an old bridge thrown over the Douve and were entering the part of the park called the Oak Grove, The oaks here were centuries old.
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