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Milltown is a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, set in the Raritan Valley with Lawrence Brook, a tributary of the Raritan River, flowing through the center of the community.

Milltown was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on January 29, 1889, from portions of North Brunswick, following a referendum held three days earlier, and a portion of East Brunswick Township was annexed in 1902.

The community was originally known as Bergen's Mill, named for Jacob I. Bergen, who owned the gristmill on Lawrence Brook, and the name is believed to have evolved into Milltown from residents saying they were "going to the mill in town."

The 2020 United States census counted 7,037 residents in Milltown, up slightly from 6,893 in the 2010 census.

Based on the 2000 census, New Jersey's center of population was located in Milltown, on Milltown Road just east of the New Jersey Turnpike, before shifting to East Brunswick after the 2010 census.

The landmark 1903 western The Great Train Robbery, one of the earliest narrative films in American cinema, was shot in Milltown.

In 1907 the French tire maker Michelin chose Milltown for its first American factory, which at its peak employed more than 1,000 people before closing in 1930 during the Great Depression.

The historic Milltown India Rubber Factory building, built in 1899 and later home to the Russell Playing Card Company, has been converted into condominiums known as The Mill.

The Milltown Freight Station is the only surviving station of the old Raritan River Railroad, whose first passenger train reached Milltown in 1891.

Milltown's own schools are Parkview School for the youngest grades and Joyce Kilmer School for grades four through eight, and its high school students attend Spotswood High School in neighboring Spotswood under a sending/receiving agreement.