Lawrenceville, NJ is best known for The Lawrenceville School and its historic Main Street. The village sits inside Lawrence Township in Mercer County, between Princeton and Trenton, and the township around it is home to several well-known names:
The Lawrenceville School, a private boarding and day school founded in 1810. Its campus anchors the village.
The Lawrence Township Historic District, 550 acres around Main Street, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Rider University, founded in 1865, with about 6,000 students.
Educational Testing Service, the organization behind the SAT, headquartered in the township since 1964.
Terhune Orchards on Cold Soil Road, a roughly 250-acre family farm with a farm store and winery, run by the Mount family for more than 50 years.
Quaker Bridge Mall on Route 1, which opened in 1975.
TPC Jasna Polana, a private golf club on a former estate.
The history goes back further than most visitors realize. The area was settled as Maidenhead in 1697 and renamed in 1816 for naval officer James Lawrence, the man remembered for “Don’t give up the ship.”
For people thinking about moving here, the village and the Route 1 side of town feel very different. The village is walkable and quiet, while most of the shopping sits out along Route 1.
Fred Gomberg has lived in Lawrenceville for 30 years and serves on the board of Lawrenceville Main Street, the nonprofit that works on the downtown. He works with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach in Princeton and often starts with new buyers by driving them through the village and the surrounding neighborhoods.
