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From: Marshall Lake <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Question: Holland Township History
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:52:33 -0500 (EST)
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> Marshall Lake has this posted also.
>
> http://www.euronet.nl/users/awjp/hunterdon2.html
>
> "In the months October and November 1996, Dutch journalists Anne
> Wesseling and Abram Donkers traveled through the United States,
> searching for Dutch influences on the American society. You can read
> their impressions of Holland Township in Hunterdon County."

I can't take credit for that.

I searched around a little bit to see if I could find the reason for the
name. I surmised that the name was created because of the existence of
one or two Dutch windmills in the area to be named Holland Township.
However, I couldn't find anything specifically stating this.

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