Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Pennington, NJ

Pennington is a borough in Mercer County, New Jersey, established by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on January 31, 1890, from portions of Hopewell Township.

According to an 1883 history, the village was first named Queenstown in honor of Queen Anne, was later mocked as "Pennytown" for its small size, and by 1747 had become known as Pennington.

Pennington is a dry borough, where the sale of alcohol is prohibited.

The borough is completely surrounded by Hopewell Township, making it one of New Jersey's 21 pairs of "doughnut towns," where one municipality entirely surrounds another.

The 2020 United States census counted 2,802 people in Pennington — its highest decennial count ever — living in 1,028 households.

Pennington covers less than one square mile, about 0.97 square miles in total, at the crossroads between the Delaware Valley and Raritan Valley regions.

The Pennington School, an independent coeducational day and boarding school for grades 6 through 12, was founded in the borough in 1838 as the Methodist Episcopal Male Seminary, opening with a single teacher and three students.

Public school students from Pennington attend the Hopewell Valley Regional School District, including Hopewell Valley Central High School, which is physically located in Pennington on Pennington Titusville Road.

Pennington Day, an annual street fair on Main Street featuring local organizations, businesses, music and a parade, has been held since 1980 and typically takes place in mid-May.

The borough's historic First Presbyterian Church is one of the landmark buildings anchoring Pennington's small, preserved village center.