Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Asbury, NJ

Asbury is an unincorporated community and census-designated place within Franklin Township in Warren County, created as part of the 2010 United States census.

The 2020 census counted 270 residents in Asbury, nearly unchanged from 273 in 2010.

The settlement, originally called Hall's Mills, was renamed Asbury in 1800 in honor of Francis Asbury, the first American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who had helped lay the cornerstone of the local Methodist church in 1796.

The five-story stone Asbury Grist Mill, built between 1863 and 1867 on the Musconetcong River atop the foundation of a mill dating to about 1780, is the only surviving historic industrial building in the Asbury Historic District.

In 1895, entrepreneur Harry M. Riddle converted the grist mill to process graphite, a strategic material in high demand during the First and Second World Wars.

Riddle's company, founded as Asbury Graphite Mills in 1896, grew into Asbury Carbons, described as the world's largest independent processor and seller of refined graphite and other carbons, and it remains headquartered in Asbury.

Asbury Graphite was the first company to initiate trade with China after President Nixon's political initiative reopened that country in the 1970s, sourcing very high quality graphite there.

Graphite milling at the old stone mill ended around 1970 as production shifted to the Asbury Carbons plant across the river, and in the late 1990s the Riddle family gave the mill to the Musconetcong Watershed Association, which is restoring it as an interpretive center and office space.

The Asbury Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, preserves a mill village whose growth was arrested after 19th-century transportation innovations bypassed it.

The Musconetcong National Water Trail passes through Asbury, and the surrounding river valley has been inhabited for more than 13,000 years, including by the Lenape people.