Founding year: the first Lincoln Park post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1922.
History grade
What drives Lincoln Park’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Lincoln Park is more historic than 46% of U.S. towns, #328 of 468 in New Jersey. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Lincoln Park’s overall grade.
New Jersey towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New Jersey town has 3.7 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Lincoln Park’s 1.8 sits near the middle of its state (40% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.8 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date; Wikidata gives 1922.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Lincoln Park’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lincoln Park yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Lincoln Park is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 10,915, an increase of 394 (+3.7%) from the 2010 census count of 10,521, which in turn reflected a decline of 409 (−3.7%) from the 10,930 counted in the 2000 census. Lincoln Park was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 11, 1922, from portions of Pequannock Township. The borough was reincorporated on February 26, 1925. The borough was named for President Abraham Lincoln. The borough is situated in the easternmost part of Morris County bordering both Essex and Passaic counties along the Passaic and Pompton rivers.…
Its first post office opened in 1872. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 10,521 to 10,915 (+4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Lincoln Park in 1914
Passages that mention Lincoln Park, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A history of Morris County, New Jersey1914 · page 148Read the page →
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by the Pequannock north, east and south, although but partly on the south, Montville and Boonton townships completing the southern boundary, Rockaway township forming the western boundary. The D., L. & W. railroad crosses its southeastern corner, Lincoln Park and Whitehall being stations in the township on that line. The N. Y., S. & Western railroad follows the general course of the Passaic river entering and leaving the township twice, but within the township the greater part of the distance along the eastern and northern border. The important stations on the line are the borough of
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A history of Morris County, New Jersey1914 · page 151Read the page →
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the road leading to Boonton. The next was a frame building erected in 1785 ; a third in 1816, and a fourth in 1852. Other school houses have been erected from time to time, the present system including schools at Brook Valley, Jacksonville, Lincoln Park, Pompton Plains, Riverdale and Meadtown. For the school year ending June, 1913, the township expended for its public schools, $14,826.96. The total enrollment of scholars was 437, the average daily attendance 300. For the years 1913-14 eleven teachers were
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Lincoln Park, 1872 to 1994
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Lincoln Park post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1922.
How does Lincoln Park rank for history?
Lincoln Park is more historic than 46% of U.S. towns, #328 of 468 in New Jersey. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Lincoln Park?
One place: the John Dod House and Tavern (listed 1977).
How old are the homes in Lincoln Park?
13% of Lincoln Park’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.8 points), against a typical 15% for a New Jersey town; the median home was built in 1975.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (5), the Library of Congress (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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