 The area was first settled in 1677, when a group primarily consisting of Quakers settled in the area of Crosswicks, the oldest of the Chesterfield's three "villages".Crosswicks is home to a Friends Meeting House, as well as a historic library which used to house the Crosswicks Fire Department.The fire department's current home is in the former schoolhouse on New Street, which it has occupied since 1968 (the building was completed in 1909).