Monroe, historically known as Monroe Corners, is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located along North Church Road ( NJ Route 94) at the border between the townships of Hardyston and

Sparta Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the Evrotas Valley, valley of Evrotas (river), Evrotas rive ...

in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. The New Jersey Midland Railway built a station here named Monroe Corners sometime before 1872. The Old Monroe School House, a one-room stone school house built in 1819, was listed on the

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in 1977.

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* Hardyston Township, New Jersey Sparta, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in Sussex County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in New Jersey {{SussexCountyNJ-geo-stub