Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is a precinct in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the district's populace was 870, mirroring a decay of 16 - 1.8% from the 886 tallied in the 2000 Census, which had thusly declined by 4 - 0.4% from the 890 checked in the 1990 Census. Bloomsbury was fused as a district by a demonstration of the New Jersey Legislature on March 30, 1905, from parts of Bethlehem Township.

The Borough of Bloomsbury was once known as "Johnson's Iron Works", possessed by Robert Johnson, on the north bank of the waterway. The present name is gotten either from the Bloom family, powerful in the early history of the town, or from the iron mineral prepared into masses of created press that are known as "sprouts.