Pattenburg, New Jersey

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Pattenburg, New Jersey
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Pattenburg, New Jersey
Location of Pattenburg in Hunterdon County Inset: Location of county within the state of New Jersey
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Pattenburg, New Jersey
Pattenburg, New Jersey (New Jersey)
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Pattenburg, New Jersey (the United States)
Coordinates: 40°38′10″N75°00′59″W / 40.63611°N 75.01639°W / 40.63611; -75.01639
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County Hunterdon
Township Union
Elevation
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453 ft (138 m)
GNIS feature ID879167 [1]

Pattenburg is an unincorporated community located within Union Township in Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [2]

The Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line (formerly the mainline of the Lehigh Valley Railroad), runs through Pattenburg and Lehigh Line's south entrance to the Pattenburg Tunnel is located in Pattenburg.

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Union Township include:

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pattenburg". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed January 31, 2015.
  3. Amy Kuperinski, NJ.com. "Vintage gone viral: Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox takes music back in time" Accessed August 18, 2017. "Bradlee grew up in Pattenburg, a part of Union Township in Hunterdon County. He attended piano lessons, but wasn't all that motivated until he heard George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" when he was 12. The sound intrigued him since it injected "jazz and ragtime sensibilities," he says, into a classical template."
  4. Scott Bradley IMDB Accessed August 18, 2017
  5. Daniel Karcher, WBGO. Accessed August 18, 2017.
  6. Oguss, Elizabeth. "Still hanging out at the Amphitheater" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine , copy of article from The Montclair Times, June 4, 2009. Accessed October 30, 2016. "At first, Dan Karcher, a 1983 graduate of Montclair High School who now lives in Pattenburg, resisted joining Facebook, the social networking site middle-aged people have been flocking to."
  7. Dan Karcher IMDB Accessed August 18, 2017