The Garden State is turning up the charm.
A small town in New Jersey was crowned one of the most charming in the country.
Lambertville made HGTV’s list of the 50 most charming small towns in America thanks to its “federal townhouses and Victorian homes, a restored 19th-century train depot, Zagat-rated restaurants and award-winning hotels and B&Bs.”
The town of just over 4,000, located in Hunterdon County in central Jersey, sits alongside the Delaware River.
Known as the “Antiques Capital of New Jersey,” Lambertville is filled with a plethora of antique and art galleries, such as The People’s Store Antiques and Design Center with over 40 dealers, and three days a week, it hosts the Golden Nugget Antique Flea Market.
Founded in 1705, it was called Coryell’s Ferry until the town was named more a century later in 1810 after John Lambert, a resident who served as a US Senator and governor of New Jersey in the early 1800s, the town’s historical society said on its website. Among his notable accomplishments was persuading the US Postal Service to open an office there.
“Our history is rich,” the town’s website states. “Lambertville was a geographical hub during the Battle for Independence. George Washington walked on the earth beneath our feet.”
One of its storied sites is the James Wilson Marshall House, which is on both the National and New Jersey registers of historic places.
It was the childhood home of James Wilson Marshall, the carpenter who discovered gold in California in 1848 to spark the Gold Rush. It now serves as the Lambertville Historical Society’s headquarters.
There is also a 19th century train station that was turned into a restaurant and hotel, now called Lambertville Station Restaurant and Inn.
Two other towns in the tri-state area made the Top 50 — Skaneateles, NY, and Essex, CT.
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