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Griggstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Franklin Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, first settled around 1733.

Griggstown was named after Benjamin Griggs, one of four sons of John and Elizabeth Griggs who came from Gravesend, Brooklyn, and who established a grist mill on the Millstone River that became the center of the community.

The 2020 United States census counted 835 people in Griggstown, up slightly from 819 in 2010, when the CDP had 346 households across about 2.45 square miles of land.

Both the Millstone River and the Delaware and Raritan Canal flow through Griggstown, and the D&R Canal State Park towpath runs along Canal Road through the village.

The Griggstown Historic District, an 861-acre district along Canal Road with 68 contributing buildings, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 2, 1984 for its significance in agriculture, architecture, commerce, industry and transportation.

The Griggstown Reformed Church was established in 1842 as the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Griggstown, and its Greek Revival building was dedicated on August 8, 1843.

Griggstown Cemetery holds the graves of nineteen Irish canal workers who died of cholera in an epidemic in 1832 and 1833 while building the Delaware and Raritan Canal.

The Griggstown Lock, the Bridge Tender's House and the Lock Tender's House are surviving canal-era structures that are contributing buildings in the historic district.

Griggstown was the home of John Honeyman, the American spy whose intelligence, gathered while posing as a British sympathizer, helped George Washington plan the surprise attack on Trenton.

From the 1970s into the early 2000s, Griggstown residents reported sightings of a 'ghost cow' along the canal and river, a local legend that ended in November 2002 when an actual feral bull believed to be the phantom was found and died after being rescued.