Phillipsburg School District history

About 1802 the New Brunswick turnpike was built to Union Square.

The Lee House was built in 1811 for a store kept by John Mixsell.

The first resident of Phillipsburg to be converted to Methodism was Philip Reese, who was converted in 1824, while on a visit to his sister, who lived on the Susquehanna.

The first brick building in town was erected by Garret Cook in 1845.

The Hudson Street School was built in 1852 at a cost of $3,500, and took the place of the smaller building.

The present edifice was erected in 1858.

The corner stone of the first was laid in 1860 by Bishop Bayley.

The first election in the newly incorporated town was held in the Union Square Hotel, then conducted by Joseph Fisher, on April 8, 1861, and Charles Sitgreaves was chosen as the first Mayor.

The boiler works of Tippett & Woods began operations in 1868, and have done a prosperous business ever since.

“On July 4, 1870, General Theodore Runyon dedicated a Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in the Phillipsburg Cemetery, which was afterwards removed under very peculiar conditions which constituted the highest grade of vandalism ever permitted by the loyal citizens of an enlightened community.”

Rowland Firth and Son established a prosperous business here in 1894 and enlarged it in 191 i.

The American Horse Shoe Company was established about 1895, and now employs one hundred and fifty hands.