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The village core consists of a series of relatively stylish houses- Greek Revival and Italianate in detail*,dash that were erected along one side of the Georgetown-Franklin Turnpike (begun 1816) during the period 1830-1870, following the earlier construction of a fashionable tavern house and a neighborhood church in Federal style on the opposite side of the road the village was rounded out and brought to its present size during a second small wave of development, 1920-1939, with a final infill of vacant lots between 1940 and the present. Situated in a rural section of Montgomery Township, the Village of Blawenburg is one of two surviving community centers that came into being in the first half of the 19th century by 1873, it had stabilized with one church, one school, a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, general store, post office, 12 houses and a cemetery. Photographed by User:Zeete (own work), 2021,, via Wikimedia Commons, accessed November, 2021. The District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Photo: James Van Zandt Mansion, circa 1860-1865, located on the Georgetown-Franklin Turnpike, Blawenburg Historic District.
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