[9] In February 2021, Purnell School announced that it would cease operations upon the completion of the 2020–2021 academic year.

William Willet owned a day book in which he recorded sales to the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

He was ruined financially and was forced to sell both mills to Serrin Potter in 1783, which led to the community's name.

In 1887, upwards of 200,000 baskets of peaches were shipped from Pottersville and New Germantown (Oldwick) by wagons to Chester, Whitehouse and other area communities.

The profitable peach growing industry led the Rockaway Valley Railroad to build a spur to Pottersville in 1888.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1990, for its significance in industry, commerce, architecture, settlement, and archeology from 1750 to 1924.