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unusual facts about Raritan River



Alfred E. Driscoll

The Driscoll Bridge on the Garden State Parkway across the Raritan River was named in his honor, and a failed planned extension of the New Jersey Turnpike (similar in nature to the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension) would have also borne his name.

College Avenue Gymnasium

RU knew it was time to build a bigger home court, and the Rutgers Athletic Center was built across the Raritan River in Piscataway in time for the 1977-78 season.

Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen

Frelinghuysen served as minister to several of the Reformed Dutch Churches (congregations at Raritan, New Brunswick, Six Mile Run, New Jersey, Three-Mile Run, and North Branch) in the Raritan River valley of New Jersey which he served until his death in 1747 or 1748.


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Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh

It is one of three residence halls known as the "River Halls" or "River Dorms" (the others being Frelinghuysen Hall and Campbell Hall) built in 1956 overlooking the Raritan River and located between New Brunswick's George Street and New Jersey Route 18.

John A. Lynch, Sr. Memorial Bridge

The bridge was originally known as the Raritan River Bridge, but was renamed in honor of John A. Lynch, Sr., the former State Senator from the district that included New Brunswick and Piscataway, a former mayor of New Brunswick, and the father and namesake of John A. Lynch, Jr., who held those positions at the time of the bridge's completion.

Manalapan

Manalapan Brook, a tributary of the South River (Raritan River tributary) in New Jersey