Phillipsburg High School - Karux Yearbook (Phillipsburg, NJ)

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.Qs..a....,. . ..s.sM...a.. x.X, ., . Jai. l z ln I806, the covered Delaware Bridge across my back was completed. I+ was the first bridge ever built at the Forks of the Delaware. Historical Review Of Early Phillipsburg Activities in the early days of Phillipsburg were centered around Union Square. The residents gathered socially ai' the Union Square Hotel and later, as shown below, at the Ellcs Home. It is the privilege of the present generation to develop and crystalize the memories of the town of Phillipsburg in 1861 so that they may become the permanent possession of the community. The following is an account of the life in y Phillipsburg during that memorable year. On March 41, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States. Four days later, Phillipsburg was incorporated as a town by act of the New Jersey legislature.iThe following month, on April 8, Charles Sitgraves was elected mayor in the town's first election. Then on t a fateful morning four days later, Fort Sumter was fired upon and the Civil War began. The Civil War issue was to linger heavily in every citizen's mind during the 186i1,s. g ' The toWn's 1500 people lived in an area consisting of Union Square and extending along Main Street to Greens Bridge. With only a few houses on the brow of the hill, the entire hill section of to-wn was devoted to farmland. Farming constituted the chief occupation during the town's early days, but it was decreasing in importance with the introduction of industry to Phillipsburg.