Grover's Mill, New Jersey

Grover's Mill, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
"Martian landing site" historical marker in Grover's Mill, commemorating the War of the Worlds radio broadcast
Grover's Mill, New Jersey Grover's Mill's location in Mercer County (Inset: Mercer County in New Jersey)
Grover's Mill, New Jersey Location within the state of New Jersey
Coordinates: 40°19′00″N 74°36′34″W / 40.31667°N 74.60944°W / 40.31667; -74.60944Coordinates: 40°19′00″N 74°36′34″W / 40.31667°N 74.60944°W / 40.31667; -74.60944
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Mercer
Township	West Windsor
Elevation	69 ft (21 m)
ZIP code	08550
GNIS feature ID	0876839^[1]

Grover's Mill is an unincorporated community located within West Windsor Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.^[2] The community was made famous in Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, where it was depicted as ground zero for a Martian invasion, on October 30 of that year.

There have been numerous references in fiction, including The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, the Wild Cards book series, and a town called Miller's Grove in The X-Files episode "War of the Coprophages". In issue 11 of DC Comics' The Shadow Strikes (1989), The Shadow teams up with a radio announcer named Grover Mills, a character based on the young Orson Welles, who has been impersonating The Shadow on the radio. Welles played the Shadow on radio prior to the War of the Worlds broadcast. An episode of the War of the Worlds TV series takes place in Grover's Mill on the 50th anniversary of the Welles radio drama, and expands on the town's ties to the infamous broadcast. An episode of the show Ben 10: Alien Force also takes place in a farm called Grover's Mill. Grover's Mill is also a 2006 film shot in Vancouver, BC.

References

↑ "Grovers Mill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
↑ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed January 7, 2015.

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The Real Grover's Mill

Municipalities and communities of Mercer County, New Jersey, United States

County seat: Trenton

City	Trenton

Boroughs	Hightstown Hopewell Pennington Princeton

Townships	East Windsor Ewing Hamilton Hopewell Lawrence Robbinsville West Windsor

CDPs	Groveville Hamilton Square Lawrenceville Mercerville Princeton Junction Robbinsville Twin Rivers White Horse Yardville

Other unincorporated communities	Ackors Corner Allens Station Altura Bakersville Baldwins Corner Battle Monument Bear Tavern Berkeley Square Berrien City Braeburn Heights Briar Manor Briarcrest Briarwood Broad Street Park Cadwalader Heights Carsons Mills Cedar Grove Centerville Central West Chambersburg Chestnut Park Chewalla Park Churchill Green Clarksville Coalport/North Clinton Colonial Lakelands Coopers Corner Coxs Corner Creston Delaware Rise Deutzville Downtown Trenton Duck Island Dutch Neck East Trenton East Trenton Heights Edgebrook Edinburg Edinburg Park Eilers Corner Eldridge Park Etra Ewing Ewing Park Ewing/Carroll Ewingville Extonville Fernwood Ferry Road Manor Fisher/Richey/Perdicaris Fleetwood Village Franklin Corner Franklin Park Glen Afton Glendale Glenmoore Golden Crest Golf View Manor Green Curve Heights Greenwood/Hamilton Grover's Mill Haines Corner Hampton Hills Hanover/Academy Harbourton Harneys Corner Harts Corner Heath Manor Hickory Corner Hickory Hill Estates Hillcrest Hillside Terrace Hillwood Lakes Hillwood Manor Hiltonia Hopewell Valley Hutchinson Mills Lakeside Park Lamberton Lawrence Station Lewisville Locust Corner Maple Shade Marshalls Corner Meadows Terrace Mill Hill Millstone Moore Mount Rose Mountainview New Canton New Sharon North 25 North Crosswicks North Trenton Nottingham Old Mill Farms Pages Corners Parkside Parkway Village Pennington/Prospect Penns Neck Pleasant Valley Pond Run Port Mercer Post Corner Princessville Princeton Colonial Park Princeton Estates Princeton Ivy East Princeton North Prospect Heights Prospect Park Quaker Bridge Quaker Gardens Rosedale Rosemont Scudders Falls Shabakunk Hills Sherbrook Estates Sherbrooke Manor Slackwood Somerset South Trenton Spring Meadows Stoutsburg Sturwood Hamlet Stuyvesant/Prospect The Island The Orchards Titusville Top Road Trenton Gardens Villa Park Village on the Green Warner Village Washington Crossing Weber Park West End West Trenton Wilbur Wilburtha Windsor Woodsville Wynnewood Manor Yardville Heights

H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1897)

Related texts: "The Crystal Egg"
Star Begotten

Concepts

Characters

Derivative
works

Novels	Fighters from Mars Edison's Conquest of Mars Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds The Space Machine War of the Worlds: New Millennium The Martian War

Radio	The War of the Worlds (1938) The War of the Worlds (1968)

Films	The War of the Worlds (1953) The Night That Panicked America The War of the Worlds: Next Century H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005) H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005) War of the Worlds (2005) War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave War of the Worlds: Goliath

Comics	Killraven Superman: War of the Worlds The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II Scarlet Traces H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds

Music	Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds "Forever Autumn" Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation

Television	The Great Martian War 1913–1917 War of the Worlds episodes Mor-Tax Mor-Taxans

Video games	War of the Worlds (1982) The War of the Worlds (1984) Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998) Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1999)

Short fiction	War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches "Mars: The Home Front" "To Mars and Providence" Rainbow Mars

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