Barley Sheaf, New Jersey

Barley Sheaf, New Jersey
Barley Sheaf, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
	Looking west along Barley Sheaf Road
	Barley Sheaf, New Jersey Location of Barley Sheaf in Hunterdon County Inset: Location of county within the state of New Jersey Barley Sheaf, New Jersey Barley Sheaf, New Jersey (New Jersey) Barley Sheaf, New Jersey Barley Sheaf, New Jersey (the United States)
	Coordinates: 40°32′45″N 74°49′28″W / 40.54583°N 74.82444°W
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Hunterdon
Township	Readington
Elevation	180 ft (50 m)
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID	874498

Barley Sheaf was an unincorporated community located within Readington Township in Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.^[2] It was named for the grain once grown in the region. The hamlet was on Barley Sheaf Road between County Route 629 (CR 629) and CR 523. The hamlet at one time housed a general store, a post office, blacksmith, creamery, a hotel and numerous farmsteads.^[3] Today only farms remain of the hamlet. The hamlet also carried the names of Farmersville and Campbellsville after Catherine Campbell, who ran the hotel in the area.

References

^ ^a ^b "Barley Sheaf". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ Locality Search Archived 2016-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 28, 2015.
^ Readington Township Historic Preservation. Readington Township: Images of America. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008.

This Hunterdon County, New Jersey state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[GNIS-1] "Barley Sheaf". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.

[2] Locality Search Archived 2016-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 28, 2015.

[3] Readington Township Historic Preservation. Readington Township: Images of America. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008.

[1]

[2]

[3]