Mount Rose (formerly called Stout's Corner) is an unincorporated community located within Hopewell Township, in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey,Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed January 7, 2015. situated at the corner of Carter Road (also called County Route 569 and Hopewell-Princeton Road), Pennington-Rocky Hill Road, and Cherry Valley Road. It is named for a local gardener. The Mount Rose section of Rocky Hill Ridge through the community also takes its name from the gardener. Richard Stout opened the first general store in the village around 1822 and in 1830, Josiah Cook and Reuben Savidge opened a second store.From the Neighborhood: Mt. Rose The settlement was also later home to two shoe shops, a dressmaker, wheelwrights, a blacksmith, a harness shop, an agricultural implements warehouse, a post office and a steam sawmill. In its heyday the community had about 20 houses. Nathaniel Drake opened an applejack distillery in the village in the mid-19th century. He made and sold peach brandy, apple cider and apple whiskey. The Whiskey House (192 Pennington-Rocky Hill Road),Hopewell Township Historic Preservation the office building for the distillery and the only remaining Drake building in the village, is listed on the township, state and national registers of historic places. The community's schoolhouse, a stone building east of the crossroads, was later replaced by a frame building on the southern end of the village that is a private residence today. After 1880, Mount Rose began shrinking, due to the growth of nearby Hopewell Borough.
Mount Rose is where the kidnapped and deceased Lindbergh baby was found in May 1932. Charles Lindbergh had lived in Mount Rose while his home was being built."Mount Rose Lies In Isolated Area; Lindbergh House, Four Miles Away, Is Visible From the Hamlet on Clear Days. Colonel Once Lived; There Made It His Temporary Quarters While Sourland Mountain Home Was Being Built.", The New York Times, May 13, 1932. Accessed March 9, 2026. "Mount Rose, near which the body of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's son was found, is a hamlet of about a dozen houses and a general store on the road connecting Princeton with Hopewell and about a mile and a half from the latter. During part of the time that his Sourland Mountain home was under construction Colonel Lindbergh lived in a house in the hamlet."
It is planned that the Lawrence Hopewell Trail will go through the community.Lawrence Hopewell TrailLawrence Hopewell Trail Plan
Education All of Hopewell Township, including Mount Rose, is served by the Hopewell Valley Regional School District.2020 Census - School District Reference Map: Mercer County, United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 24, 2024.
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