In 1747, Rockhill sold him 204 acres of land, on which Hoff was already operating a gristmill. Over the next decade, Hoff built mills, opened a store and a tavern and bought several hundred acres of land, thereby placing his stamp upon the locality. came to the Pittstown area as a pioneer settler, and tenant of Edward Rockhill, an absentee landowner. From about 1850 until 1915 it was a locally important rural center for industry, agriculture, commerce, and railroad transportation. It continued to be a rural village that served as a revenue-producing gentleman's estate for the Furman family until about 1830. Founded as Hoff's Mills in the 1740s and renamed "Pitts-Town" during the Stamp Act Crisis of the 1760s, it was the earliest crossroads trading center to be established in Franklin Township, and it also figured during the Revolutionary War as the location of many of Deputy Quartermaster-General Moore Furman's activities. Pittstown's appearance today as a small, compact linear village has resulted from the two main periods of its development. The Pittstown Historic District, located in Franklin Township and Alexandria Township, meets National Register criteria in the areas of agriculture, architecture, early settlement, industry, transportation, and military history. Portions of the content on this web page were adapted from a copy of the original nomination document. The Pittstown Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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