Listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places, the Stockton Street Historic District includes fifty-six beautiful dwellings, twenty-six support structures, one monument and one magnificent church. The district runs approximately four blocks in length along Stockton Street, a portion of Rogers Avenue, and includes approximately 14.35 acres in the Borough of Hightstown. The district contains mostly residential dwellings dating from just prior to the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. The large stone United Methodist Church, is situated in the center of the district. A small triangular park with a marble monument to the Civil War is located at the intersection of Rogers and Stockton Street.

The Stockton Street Historic District is recognized as significant to Hightstown’s history for its historic architectural styles, which is evident in the many examples of early Federal, high-style Victorian, ecclesiastic, and turn-of-the-century eclectic. Starting at the intersections of Main Street and Stockton Streets and expanding westerly along Stockton Street, these homes represent an architectural “timeline” that followed the building out from the center of town.

Additionally, the district has historic roots in its ties to early transportation. Most notably the John Bull, the first passenger train in the Untied States that ran between New York and Philadelphia, regularly passed through Hightstown. Hightstown prospered greatly by having a busy railroad stop along this route, and while the train tracks are long since gone, there still remains a few of the stone buttresses that the train tracks used to sit upon – most notably the one at the intersection of Franklin and Main Streets that now proudly displays the sign, “Historic Hightstown, Est. 1721.”

The Stockton Street Historic District is currently undergoing a grass-roots revitalization, one beautiful home at a time. On weekends and warm summer nights you can find many homeowners diligently working on their homes or tending to their gardens. Stop by and chat with them – they will be more than happy to speak with you regarding their home, the Historic District and small-town life in Hightstown.