April 2023

Part of Hardyston Twp is a locale known as North Church. This is named after the North Church that was built there around 1810, A photo is shown of the North Church in the late 1800s. The hill behind it is where the North Hardyston Cemetery remains currently. Hardyston Twp was much larger years ago than today, and Sparta Presbyterian Church as built in Sparta shortly after the Revolutionary War. The northern part of the twp was far from Sparta and difficult to reach in those horse and carriage days so a new church was needed in the northern part of the township, thus prompting the name. The site is currently where the town garages are, at the
corner of Route 95 and North Church Road.