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Neshanic is a well-preserved 19th-century agrarian village and unincorporated community within Hillsborough Township in Somerset County, at the northern base of the Sourland Mountains near the South Branch of the Raritan River.

The land around Neshanic was purchased by John Bennett in 1683, and the area was first settled by Dutch farmers in the early to mid-1700s.

The Dutch farmers of Neshanic split from the Readington Dutch Reformed Church in 1752 and formed their own congregation, the Reformed Dutch Church of Neshanic; the church standing today was constructed between 1759 and 1772 and enlarged in the 1800s.

The Neshanic Historic District, centered at the intersection of Amwell and Zion Roads, was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 with more than twenty contributing structures.

In the latter part of the 19th century, besides its church and school, the village contained a tannery, harness, wheelwright and blacksmith shops, a shoe shop, a cabinet shop, a coffin maker, and a hotel that still stands opposite the church.

Nearby Neshanic Mills, listed as its own historic district in 1978, grew around milling on the South Branch Raritan River, and records of mills in the Neshanic area reach back to 1692.

Most houses in the Neshanic Historic District date from the busy mid-to-late 1800s, and the village retains much of its historic character as a rural New Jersey crossroads community.

Neshanic shares Hillsborough Township's ZIP Code 08844, and its children attend Hillsborough Township's public schools, including Hillsborough High School.