Talk:Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey
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[edit] Bethel Indian Town and Monroe Twp High School
There has been a controversy in Monroe Township lately about a historic site called Bethel Indian Town, which housed Lenape people, and a proposal to relocate the Monroe Township High School to Thompson Park, which is across the street from the high school. The problem is that nobody knows exactly where Bethel Indian Town was located. Some have said that it was on the high school's proposed site; others disagree and say it was half-a-mile away. There was an archaeological excavation held to try to settle the matter. What it found was pits with animal bones and 18th century artifacts, most of them European in origin, at the proposed high school site. There were about eight or nine Native artifacts, suggesting that the Indian Town was probably elsewhere. A small chunk of the proposed high school site was deemed historic and it seems most of the site is probably kosher for building a new high school. (Sources: the East Brunswick (?) Sentinel, the Cranbury Press) 68.36.214.143 05:00, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
