Phillipsburg is a town in Warren County, New Jersey, situated on the Delaware River directly across from Easton, Pennsylvania. It is the most populous municipality in Warren County and forms part of the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metropolitan statistical area, tying it closely to the Lehigh Valley economy and culture. The town was incorporated in 1861, but its history runs deeper: for much of the nineteenth century, Phillipsburg grew in Easton's shadow as a canal and railroad hub, moving anthracite coal down the Delaware and later hosting the lines of the Lehigh Valley, Central Railroad of New Jersey, and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroads. That transportation heritage made Phillipsburg a manufacturing town. Through the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, its industries included iron works, cement production, and heavy machinery, and the town's built environment still reflects that working-class, industrial past in its dense rows of brick and frame homes near the river. The riverfront itself, once a working rail and canal corridor, now frames a more residential community with views toward Easton's hillsides and downtown. Today roughly 15,000 residents call Phillipsburg home. The town offers a compact, walkable core with a downtown park, recreation programs, and a K-12 school district, while its location at the Interstate 78 and Route 22 crossings makes it a practical base for commuters heading into the Lehigh Valley or east toward central New Jersey and the New York metro. For buyers, Phillipsburg represents a historic river town with genuine urban bones, a functioning Main Street area, and the cultural and economic advantages of its Pennsylvania neighbor immediately across the bridge.