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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Lake Mohawk, New Jersey, Sparta Township, New Jersey, Ogdensburg, New Jersey, Rifton, New York, Franklin, New Jersey, Shawangunk, New York, Wallkill, Ulster County, New York, Wallkill, Orange County, New York, Wawayanda, New York, Walden, New York, New Paltz, New York, New York State Route 208, Huguenot Street Historic District, Gardiner, New York, Warwick, New York, Montgomery, New York, Wallkill Valley Railroad, Goshen, New York, New York State Route 213, Daniel Waring House, Montgomery Worsted Mills, Peachcroft, List of crossings of the Wallkill River, New York State Route 416, Ward's Bridge, Carmine Liberta Bridge, Andries DuBois House, Walden Veterans' Memorial Bridge, Walden Low Bridge, Perrine's Bridge, Bodine's Bridge, Tuthilltown Bridge, William Bull III House, Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, Dubois-Phelps House, Sturgeon Pool. Excerpt: Sparta Township is a Township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 19,722. The township includes the communities of Ackerson, Edison, Hopewell, Houses Corner, Monroe, Sparta, Sparta Junction, Sussex Mills, Upper Mohawk, and Woodruffs Gap. Sparta was organized as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 14, 1845 from portions of Byram Township, Frankford Township, Hardyston Township and (the now-defunct) Newton Township. The township was named after the existing community of Sparta, which had been settled and named years before, the name likely coming from Sparta, Greece. Ogdensburg Borough was incorporated on February 26, 1914, when it separated from Sparta Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 39.2 square miles (101.6 km ), of which, 37.4 square miles (96.8 km ) of it is land and 1.8 square miles (4.7 km ) of it (4.67%) is w...