Page "Montgomery Township, New Jersey" Paragraph 46

In 2007, the Township of Montgomery purchased a parcel of land once known as the North Princeton Developmental Center from the State of New Jersey, located in Montgomery adjoining Skillman Road and Burnt Hill Road.

In addition, the Township acquired from the State the adjacent wastewater treatment facility on, behind the State-owned Skillman Dairy Farm.

The NPDC property, originally established in 1898 as the “ New Jersey Village for Epileptics ,” operated as a self-contained “ town ” that consisted of hospitals, housing, maintenance areas, schools, a power plant, a wastewater treatment facility and an on-site landfill.

Later, it became the New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Most recently, and until 1998, the property was the New Jersey Department of Human Services ' psychiatric care facility " North Princeton Developmental Center ".