Oldwick is an unincorporated community located within Tewksbury Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.[4] The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08858. As of the 2000 United States Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 08858 was 177.[5] The 2010 census data indicate a population of 144,[6] comprising 68 housing units.[7]
Populated place in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, US
Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States
Oldwick, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
Businesses in Oldwick
Oldwick, New Jersey
Oldwick's location in Hunterdon County (Inset: Hunterdon County in New Jersey)
Oldwick was formerly known as New Germantown. It has a mixture of Victorian, Federal, New England and Georgian style homes, and is protected by historic legislation. Historic sites within Oldwick include the Kline Farmhouse and the Oldwick Historic District.
Zion Lutheran Church in Oldwick was the oldest Lutheran parish in New Jersey.[8] Justus Falckner of New York, the first Lutheran clergyman ever ordained in America, led the worshipers at the founding ceremony on August 1, 1714. The noted German Lutheran pastor, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, was a member of this congregation from 1759 to 1760.[9]
Oldwick is the corporate headquarters of the A. M. Best rating agency, and is the location of Mane Stream, formerly the Somerset Hills Handicapped Riding Center for adaptive riding and equine assisted therapy.
"Oldwick". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
Abrams, Bernie. "Native daughter comes home", New Jersey Hills, June 11, 2007. Accessed May 1, 2022. "Her roots, she admits, run very deep in the area though she now lives in California. She grew up in the Oldwick section of Tewksbury Township where, at the Country Day School, her teacher Miss Noling encouraged von Stade's vocal development in performing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas."
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