Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Weston, NJ

Weston is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in Franklin Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, served by ZIP Code 08873.

Weston sits on the east side of the Millstone River, north of East Millstone and south of Zarephath.

In its early days the area around Weston was known by the names Schenck's Mill, Van Nest's Mill, and Frogtown, reflecting the gristmills that once operated on the Millstone River.

As of the 2020 United States census, Weston had a population of 2,023, up from 1,235 counted in 2010 after the CDP's boundaries were expanded.

The Delaware and Raritan Canal was completed through Weston in 1834, and a canal Bridgetender's House still stands on the southeast side of the Weston Causeway bridge.

The Weston Causeway, signed as County Route 623, is the only bridge across both the Millstone River and the Delaware and Raritan Canal between East Millstone and the canal's confluence with the Raritan River near South Bound Brook.

Portions of Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park lie immediately beside the causeway, including the Main Canal Trail and the historic Weston Causeway Bridge Tender's House site.

During the Revolutionary War's Battle of Millstone in January 1777, Continental Army troops and local militia near the mill at Weston drove off a British foraging party of about 600 troops sent out of New Brunswick by General Cornwallis.

Weston's home township of Franklin is one of Somerset County's most populous municipalities, with 68,364 residents counted in the 2020 census, and its growth was historically driven by the Delaware and Raritan Canal, which carried as much as 200,000 tons of goods a year by the 1860s.