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Grover's Mill is an unincorporated area within West Windsor Township, New Jersey 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.

There have been numerous references in fiction, including The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 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.

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Mercer County, New Jersey
County seat: Trenton
Cities Trenton
Boroughs Hightstown | Hopewell | Pennington | Princeton
Townships East Windsor | Ewing | Hamilton | Hopewell | Lawrence | Princeton | Washington | West Windsor
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communities		 Grover's Mill | Lawrenceville | Mercerville-Hamilton Square | Princeton Junction | Princeton North | Robbinsville | Titusville | Twin Rivers | White Horse | Windsor | Yardville-Groveville
  •  • [ e] The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
BattlesHorsell Offensive • Battle of Weybridge/Shepperton • Fall of London • HMS Thunder Child ♦ Battle of Pine Summit • Fall of New Jersey • Valley Offensive
MartiansBlack smoke • Embankment-machine • Flying-machine • Handling-machine • Heat-Ray • Red weed • Tripod
RadioThe War of the Worlds • Grover's Mill, New Jersey • The Night That Panicked America
FilmsThe War of the Worlds • H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Hines, 2005) • H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (Latt, 2005) • War of the Worlds
Jeff WayneMusical Version • Highlights • Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds game
TV seriesWar of the Worlds (Mor-Tax • Mor-Taxans • list of episodes)
SequelsEdison's Conquest of Mars • Killraven (Earth-691) • Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds • • Rainbow Mars • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II • • Scarlet Traces • The Martian War
MiscellaneousDoctor Clayton Forrester • Comic • The Space Machine • • Arcade game
Unincorporated areas in the state of New Jersey are communities that are part of one or more incorporated municipalities. Some of the areas have official recognition as a Census-designated place, such as Somerset, New Jersey which is part of Franklin Township, Somerset County, New
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West Windsor, New Jersey

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Capital Trenton

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Orson Welles

Orson Welles in 1937 photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Birth name George Orson Welles
Born May 6 1915(1915--)
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The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air.

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Ground Zero may be used to describe the point on the earth's surface where an explosion occurs. In the case of an explosion above the ground, Ground Zero refers to the point on the ground directly below explosion (see hypocenter).
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Martian is more usually a hypothetical or fictional native inhabitant of the planet Mars. Historically, life on Mars has often been hypothesized, although there is currently no solid evidence of life there at present.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (also more simply referred to as Buckaroo Banzai) is a science fiction film that has reached cult film status.
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The X-Files is an American Peabody and Emmy Award-winning science fiction television series created by Chris Carter, which first aired on September 10, 1993, and ended on May 19, 2002.
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Orson Welles

Orson Welles in 1937 photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Birth name George Orson Welles
Born May 6 1915(1915--)
Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
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War of the Worlds is a television program that ran for two seasons, from 1988 to 1990. The series is an extension of the original 1953 film The War of the Worlds, often incorporating aspects from the film, radio adaptation, and original novel into its mythology.
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Mercer County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its county seat is Trenton6. Since the 2000 Census, Mercer County has been part of the New York Combined Statistical Area; before then, it was part of the Philadelphia Combined Statistical Area.
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City of Trenton, New Jersey

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City of Trenton, New Jersey

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Hightstown, New Jersey

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Hopewell, New Jersey

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Borough of Pennington, New Jersey
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Borough of Princeton, New Jersey

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East Windsor, New Jersey

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Ewing, New Jersey

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Hamilton Township, New Jersey
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Township of Hopewell, New Jersey
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Lawrence, New Jersey

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Township of Princeton, New Jersey
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Washington, New Jersey

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