Rutgers University has three campuses across the state of New Jersey, with its largest campus located mainly in the City of New Brunswick and adjacent Piscataway Township, and two smaller campuses in the cities of Newark and Camden.

It is spread across six municipalities in Middlesex County, New Jersey, chiefly in the City of New Brunswick and Piscataway Township.

Separated by the Raritan river are Busch Campus, in Piscataway, and Livingston Campus, also mainly in Piscataway but including remote sections of land extending into Edison Township and the Borough of Highland Park.

It begins at an intersection with Route 138 in Wall Township and ends when the road disseminates into Hoes Lane in Piscataway.

* Piscataway Township

Hopewell Township was supposed to be where the Somerset Freeway would have started in the south, ending in the north in either Piscataway or Franklin.

Dunellen was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on October 28, 1887, when it broke away from Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum held on March 23, 1886.

Dunellen grew from its start in 1867 with the construction of a railroad station, which was originally called New Market station, serving the nearby community of the same name in Piscataway Township.

What is now Edison Township was originally incorporated as Raritan Township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1870, from portions of both Piscataway Township and Woodbridge Township.

Edison Township, comprising former sections of Piscataway and Woodbridge townships, was settled ( by Europeans ) in the 17th Century.

Middlesex was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 9, 1913, from portions of Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 6, 1913.

Middlesex Borough was a portion of Piscataway Township, until May 6, 1913 when it was incorporated as a separate entity through the action of the state legislature and local referendum.

Piscataway Township () is a Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

Over the years, portions of Piscataway were taken to form Raritan Township ( March 17, 1870, now Edison ), Dunellen ( October 28, 1887 ), Middlesex ( April 9, 1913 ) and South Plainfield ( March 10, 1926 ).

Society Hill is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Piscataway Township.

The Piscataway Township Schools serves almost 7, 000 students with its high school, four schools that educate students in kindergarten through third grade, two intermediate schools serving grades 4-5, and three middle schools for students in grades six, seven, and eight.

Piscataway Township High School, with 2, 184 students in grades 9-12.

Notable current and former residents of Piscataway Township include:

* Piscataway Township website

It was further extended in 2004, and currently ends at Hoes Lane in Piscataway.

The alignment of Route 18 through Middlesex County from Middlesex to Highland Park was first designated in the 1926 designing of a new highway system as State Highway Route S-29, a prefixed spur of New Jersey Route 29 ( U. S. Route 22 ) through Middlesex County, following Washington Avenue in Middlesex and the River Road in Piscataway until terminating at State Highway Route 27 near the Albany Street Bridge in Highland Park.

By the time the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering had been implemented and in law, the route was re-designated as State Highway Route S-28, a prefixed spur of State Highway Route 28 in Middlesex, following Raritan Avenue and River Road through Piscataway and Highland Park, joining State Highway Route 27 on a concurrency into New Brunswick, and onto George Street in New Brunswick southward.

It was part of the Anacostan chiefdom, centered on the lower Anacostia River near present-day Washington, D. C. ( John Smith visited them in 1608 ); the Anacostans were organized under the Piscataway paramount chiefdom ( not part of the Powhatan alliance ), which by the 1630s claimed to have had thirteen successive rulers.

In the 1960s, the route was planned to be upgraded to a freeway all the way up to Port Jervis and south to Piscataway, Middlesex County ; however, both freeway proposals were cancelled in the early 1970s.

Catonsville was located along the Piscataway Trail.

This was historically the territory of Algonquian-speaking peoples, especially the Potapoco and the more dominant Piscataway.

Overall, the dominant tribe on the north side of the Potomac River was the Algonquian Piscataway tribe, which later absorbed some of the smaller tribes ' survivors.

As of the 2000 census, 10. 48 % of South Brunswick's residents identified themselves as being of Indian American ancestry, which was the seventh highest of any municipality in the United States and the fourth highest in New Jersey — behind Edison ( 17. 75 %), Plainsboro Township ( 16. 97 %) and Piscataway Township ( 12. 49 %) — of all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.

South Plainfield was incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1926, from portions of Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum passed on April 6, 1926.

As of the 2000 census, 9. 19 % of Woodbridge Township's residents identified themselves as being of Indian American ancestry, which was the tenth highest of any municipality in the United States and the fifth highest in New Jersey — behind Edison ( 17. 75 %), Plainsboro Township ( 16. 97 %), Piscataway Township ( 12. 49 %) and South Brunswick Township ( 10. 48 %) — of all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.

Jackson was faculty at Rutgers University in Piscataway and New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1991 to 1995, in addition to continuing to consult with Bell Labs on semiconductor theory.

In the character of Paulie Herman, Piscopo lampooned Piscataway Township, New Jersey, triggering an immediate outcry from officials of that Township, and the character was dropped.

Luther Martin ( February 9, 1748, Piscataway, N. J. – July 8, 1826 New York, N. Y .) was a politician and one of United States ' Founding Fathers, who refused to sign the Constitution because he felt it violated states ' rights.

Raritan Landing, across from New Brunswick in today's Piscataway became was important inland port and commercial hub for the region.

The headquarters was eventually moved to Piscataway.

In 2001, the New Jersey Department of Transportation approved construction of extending the Route 18 Freeway northward from Middlesex County Route 622 ( River Road, former CR 514 Spur ) in Piscataway to a new arterial on the existing Hoes Lane in the Rutgers University campuses.

Souvlaki grilling at the 2011 Greek Festival in Piscataway, New Jersey on May 15, 2011

Piscataway lies on the south side of Raritan Valley along with New Brunswick, Highland Park, and South Plainfield.

South Plainfield is bordered by Piscataway Township on the south and west, Edison on the east, and Plainfield on the north.

The supporters of the shield are, on the left, a Piscataway brave, of the Powhatan Confederacy, the predominant tribe along the Potomac, in this area.

), Eastern Crossroads: Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy ( Piscataway: Gorgias Press LLC, 2007 ) ( Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies, 1 ), 169 – 190.

Rutgers University built the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on its Busch Campus, near High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, across the Raritan River from its main campus in New Brunswick.