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Best college towns in America: Princeton, New Jersey (Home of Princeton University)

New Jersey gets a terrible reputation from the rest of the country, but it’s somewhere everyone needs to visit properly. The beaches not seen on MTV are great, the mountains are big enough to ski on, and there’s more green than anyone would think possible in such a small state with so many people. In the Princeton area, it’s been built around the university for close to 300 years. It started as a flatland with barely anything to a lush green space that helps its students excel.

Princeton’s arboretum puts a lot of other universities’ collections of trees to shame, especially during the fall. That doesn’t even count the 60-foot elm trees that line Washington Road, the street that leads people to Princeton University.

With a university that has been around since the 1740s, there will obviously be some very old buildings on campus. Princeton’s campus is 9.5 million square feet in size and houses 200 different buildings from every era of the university. When stopping by an Ivy League school, one must check out the library. The Chancellor Green library is marvelous in structure and abundant in content.

One of the fiercest battles of the Revolutionary War happened in Princeton. General George Washington led his troops against the British Redcoats in what is now considered Battlefield State Park. There is the single oak tree that bears witness to the battle and the Clarke house which held the heavily wounded General Hugh Mercer until he died nine days later. There’s history for miles at this property.