The New Jersey State Fair / Sussex County Farm & Horse Show has evolved as the site of numerous activities and events throughout the year.

Since 2005, the stadium is the home of the Sussex County Miners, which plays as part of the Frontier League.

[25][26] Ross Corner (with a 2010 Census population of 13[27]) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Frankford Township.

[33] This is a shale, slate, and limestone formation created 450 million years ago when a chain of volcanic islands collided with proto North America.

[citation needed] The islands went over the North American plate, creating the Highlands of Sussex County.

About 400 million years ago small continent that was long and thin, collided with proto North America creating folding and faulting.

End moraines exist in Stokes State Forest as well as just off County Route 565 north of the Skylands Park.

Papakatkin Creek starts east of Branchville Reservoir and drains into the Wallkill River north of the town of Sussex.

Paleo Indians carried spears with fluted points made of black chert or jasper.

As climate warmed, megafauna either traveled north, were over hunted, or became extinct due to lack of food.

At this time more deciduous trees such as oak, maple, birch, and willows began to grow.

Other big game then slowly inhabited the area, such as deer, elk, bear, and moose.

By 3000 BCE other deciduous trees grew such as hickory, cherry, walnut, beech, butternut, chestnut, ash and elm.

Around 1000 BCE, clay pottery was invented which allowed the storage of seeds, nuts and other food.

Hunter gatherer populations began to rise more due to the ability to store nuts in pottery and procure game through the bow and arrow.

They settled their seasonal extended family camps along the river valleys as food and water was abundant there.

The Lenape were still hunter gatherers and supplemented their procuring of wild game with corn, beans and squash.

The Paulinskill River and the surrounding valley offered excellent area for family camps of Native Americans.

The Paulinskill River is shallow and narrow which allowed for easy fishing, bathing, and gathering of plants.

Since the land is flat, this allowed for easy traveling, hunting and food gathering such as various nuts.

Culvers Lake was the site of Native American villages and Papakating Creek was used as a campsite.

The Native American populations continued to grow even though they were living in a late Stone Age culture.

Extreme cold weather and deep snow also made finding game difficult.

Shallow rivers such as the Paulinskill and Wallkill froze quickly, thus reducing the ability to fish.

This was due to land patents, disease from Europeans, and starvation from several hundred years of the Little Ice Age.

Settlers came from New York State by way of the Wallkill River drainage or by route through Culver's Gap.

Eight fortified houses were built from Phillipsburg, New Jersey to Port Jervis, New York along the Delaware River.

Native Americans sided with the French due to being treated unfairly by the English, such as the Walking Purchase of 1737 and land patents.

[53][54][55] For the 119th United States Congress, New Jersey's 5th congressional district is represented by Josh Gottheimer (D, Wyckoff).

[58] For the 2024-2025 session, the 24th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Parker Space (R, Wantage Township) and in the General Assembly by Dawn Fantasia (R, Franklin) and Mike Inganamort (R, Chester Township).