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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
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| | Built in 1760 for John Reading, Governor of New Jersey 1757 - 1758. Reading served 40 years on provincial council. — — Map (db m17248) HM |
| | Home to Samuel Hill, who in 1814, with two partners, founded Hill Pottery, which operated at the corner of Main & Mine Streets in Flemington. Hill Pottery was purchased in 1858 by a nephew, Abram Fulper, who then changed the name to Fulper Pottery. . . . — — Map (db m42134) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m18007) HM |
| | The site of homesteads settled early in the 1700's — — Map (db m17247) HM |
| | The site of homesteads settled early in the 1700's — — Map (db m17353) HM |
| | In 1864 provided Flemington’s second rail line.
Passenger station erected here. A turntable to the west reversed the locomotives. — — Map (db m16687) HM |
| | This building Served as Fulper Pottery Company's factory #2 from 1924 until 1935. The three large kilns in this building are the last known commercial pottery kilns of this type in the State of New Jersey. In 1935 all manufacturing was transferred . . . — — Map (db m16831) HM |
| | Lenape Chief Tuccamirgan helped early settler John Kase (Case) and his family survive the wilderness. Their respect for each other and the earth inspires all who walk here. — — Map (db m33208) HM |
| | The former estate of Judge George K. Large, who willed it to the public in 1963. The buildings are gone, but the land is now a park and Green Acres area. — — Map (db m21263) HM |
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[On Left Side of Marker:]
The Soldier Dog
I was trained to use my eyes to
watch and protect you from harm.
My ears to alert you of impending
danger like an alarm.
My keen sense of smell to detect
an enemy close at bay. . . . — — Map (db m19186) HM |
| | In 1729, Joseph King Sr. bought this property, built this "good stone dwelling-house", and a grist/saw mill. Joseph King Jr. owned them until 1768. The mill operated until c.1895 but was dismantled by 1930. — — Map (db m143357) HM |
| | For over 40 years August Knispel, lifelong Franklin resident and farmer, served the Township, Hunterdon County and his dairy profession in positions of leadership. From 1964-97, he sat on Franklin's Township Committee and was Mayor eleven times. In . . . — — Map (db m19537) HM |
| | Top
Town takes its name from the many French families that followed Paul Henri Mallet-Prevost, a Swiss refugee from the French Revolution who moved here in 1794. Bottom
Called "Sunbeam" in 1759. Later Sherrard's Ferry. Present name for . . . — — Map (db m17079) HM |
| | Congregation was formed in 1832 and met in a room on Bridge Street. This church erected in 1844 and enlarged in 1861. — — Map (db m16651) HM |
| | The Belvidere-Delaware Railroad c.1853.
Later leased to the Penn R. R. System, the line allowed transit of Lehigh & Hudson R. R. passenger trains. — — Map (db m16648) HM |
| | To honor those who fought to preserve our freedoms, the Citizens of Frenchtown dedicate these memorials to our valiant dead. Let us also dedicate them to the living ... and to the promise of the future. — — Map (db m19570) HM |
| | This tablet is erected as a tribute to the men of Frenchtown who served on the Great World War. 1917-1918 — — Map (db m16650) WM |
| | Here, in 1755, stood the first store in Frenchtown, then known as Alexandriaville. In 1869, this building and the house to the left were built in the Italianate style for the merchant Oliver Worman. After Worman failed, in 1877, Hugh Warford bought . . . — — Map (db m63106) HM |
| | Lenape tribes used this abundant Hunterdon mineral for spearpoints and tools. One of their trade routes followed the River Road (now Rte. 29) southwards toward Sanhican (Trenton). — — Map (db m114648) HM |
| | In 1778 the Continental Congress moved 4,916 British and German troops captured at Saratoga, south from Boston along today's Route 513, crossing the Delaware at Sherrard's Ferry (Frenchtown). Many escaped along the way but 3,600 reached Virginia, to . . . — — Map (db m46194) HM |
| | One of the last remaining "Quaking Bogs" in New Jersey. Put under Bethlehem Twp. protection in 1977. — — Map (db m16640) HM |
| | Only remaining building at Union Forge.
Before 1720.
Union Township Historic Site. — — Map (db m18699) HM |
| | Organized in 1865 by the two leading families of Glen Gardner - the Gardners and the Hunts.
Land donated by Dr. A. A. Hunt. — — Map (db m16666) HM |
| | Originally known as Eveland's Tavern, the community of Glen Gardner was established in the early to mid 1700's. Early settlement relied heavily upon Spruce Run to power mills and the surrounding mountainside to mine ore. The addition of the Central . . . — — Map (db m16667) HM |
| | Named In 1871 For Chair Factory Family Eveland’s Tavern In 1760, It Was Later Known As Sodom, And In 1820, Clarksville, After A Local Merchant. — — Map (db m17409) HM |
| | Hunt Family Was Major Benefactor To Glen Gardner.
House Owned By Dr. A. A. Hunt In Late 1700's. House Across Street Built By His Son, Dr. T. E. Hunt, In 1853. — — Map (db m17410) HM |
| | Present building was dedicated in 1871. Three structures preceded it on the site; erected in 1730, 1760, and 1830. Many Continental Army soldiers buried here. — — Map (db m16630) HM |
| | Original Farm 1763. Stone dwelling built by H. Huffman 1854. — — Map (db m16632) HM |
| | Colonel Charles Stewart
was George Washington's
Commissary-General of Issues.
The house was built in 1763. — — Map (db m16586) HM |
| | The original 1763 home was here. Commissary-General Charles Stewart feted officers of the Continental Army. House replaced c. 1800 by the imposing stone residence across the road. — — Map (db m71560) HM |
| | Located just south, serviced short shuttle runs north into Clinton and south into Pittstown. Building dismantled before WWII. — — Map (db m16674) HM |
| | c. 1789
Use to cure
meat and fish — — Map (db m16587) HM |
| | In 1759 Phillip and John Grandin acquired 1,000 acres known as the Hamden Tract.
Hamden was home to the Grandin Grist & Fulling-Mills, a Blacksmith Shop, and Abbott's Tavern.
Dr. John Grandin's house was built in 1775 with pitch pine lumber that . . . — — Map (db m132105) HM |
| | The meeting place of the NJ Central and DL & W RRs, earlier known as Junction. Extensive RR shops and a huge coal storage yard were sited here. — — Map (db m21189) HM |
| | Known for years before 1909 as junction. Central RR of NJ & DL&W railroads met here. Site of extensive machine shops and a huge coal storage facility set up to get nearer the city areas to the east. — — Map (db m16702) HM |
| | Congregation organized in 1836 in a New Hampton schoolhouse. Tent services held here until the building was completed in 1837. — — Map (db m16610) HM |
| | This plaque is a memorial to Sister Mary Miranda C.S.S.F. of the Province of Felician Sisters of Lodi, New Jersey, who came to this Holy Mount to establish a house of prayer for the Fatima Apostolate and to whom is due much of the credit for the . . . — — Map (db m57660) HM |
| | Congregation formed in 1859. Met in a house on John Street until this church was erected in 1867. — — Map (db m16703) HM |
| | A Lenape village called Pelouesse was identified in 1715 across the Musconetcong River from Hampton, New Jersey. The name of the village, Pelouesse, as pronounced by the colonial Americans, derived from the Lenape words yapei, meaning "on the stream . . . — — Map (db m44337) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m17921) WM |
| |
Honoring all U.S.
Veterans including
those residents of
High Bridge
that served and those
who died for their
country. — — Map (db m21805) HM |
| | Home of Union Forge, maker of early farm equipment,
cannonballs for Continential Army. Factory, later known as Taylor Wharton ceased operations in 1971. — — Map (db m5039) HM |
| | Columbia Trail – A 7-mile Hunterdon County Greenway, from the Borough of High Bridge, north to the Morris County line.
Opened in July of 1876, the High Bridge Branch was a busy railroad owned by the Central Railroad Company of New . . . — — Map (db m36999) HM |
| | [Main Marker]:
On October 31, 1933, CCC Company 1268, S.P.-5, arrived at High Bridge, N.J., four years after former Governor Foster M. Voorhees donated his 325 acre farm, known as Hills Acres, to the State of New Jersey to become a park. . . . — — Map (db m16930) HM |
| | The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Lake Solitude and Taylor Falls
With the depletion of natural resources that provided energy to power the adjacent Iron Works, Lake Solitude was constructed by the Taylor Iron and Steel . . . — — Map (db m37041) HM |
| | In use from
C. 1730 - 1889
Supplied ore for
Solitude (Union) Forge
Ore made into cannonballs
for use of Revolutionary Army
Owned by:
William Allen and Joseph Turner
1742 - 1778
Robert Taylor and Family
1778 - 1863
Thomas Iron . . . — — Map (db m5044) HM |
| | Constructed 1859-1865 for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, this 112 foot earthen embankment double arch culvert supports the original bridge from which the Borough of High Bridge is named. — — Map (db m5040) HM |
| | Patriots imprisoned loyalist Pennsylvania Governor John Penn and Crown Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Chew here during the Revolutionary War. They named the place “Solitude.” — — Map (db m73998) HM |
| | Lake Solitude Dam (also known as the Taylor Dam) was constructed in 1858 across the South Branch of the Raritan River to provide hydro-power and hydro-electric power to Taylor Iron and Steel Company.
The original falls structure (spillway) was . . . — — Map (db m91857) HM |
| | The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Solitude House
Solitude House started life as a classic Germanic style stone home in 1712 and was part of a 10,000 acre parcel of land that came to be part of the Union Iron Works. The . . . — — Map (db m37036) HM |
| | The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Springside Farm
The 90 acre Springside Farm tract was originally owned and operated by Archibald Taylor, son of Robert Taylor who immigrated from Ireland in the 1750's. Beginning with Robert, . . . — — Map (db m37106) HM |
| | St. Joseph Parish was formally established in 1880. Previously, the predominantly Irish immigrant congregation was part of St. Ann Church in Junction (now Hampton) and worshiped in a building on Church Street. St. Joseph Church has occupied this . . . — — Map (db m57162) HM |
| | Taylor Iron & Steel Company
Was the center of the original 1742 Union Iron Works. Late 1800's push to rename High Bridge to "Tisco" failed. — — Map (db m36997) HM |
| | 1742–1971
Taylor Wharton formed 1914.
Site of car wheel foundry
machine shop
pattern shop
Operated 1853–1935
First YMCA - 1914 — — Map (db m5043) HM |
| | Welsome to the Taylor Steelworkers Historic Greenway
Created by the Union Forge Heritage Association in 2010, the Greenway Trail traverses several of the most historically significant properties in the Borough of High Bridge and the State of New . . . — — Map (db m37104) HM |
| | Taylor Wharton Iron and Steel Company 1742-1971
Standing together we have withstood the test of time
Oldest Iron and Steel Company in the United States
First Manganese Steel in the United States
TISCO Shells
Armaments for . . . — — Map (db m15015) HM |
| | Founded in the 1740's, this landmark served as the town's inn and public meeting place for over 230 years until razed in 1979. — — Map (db m30633) HM |
| | The most memorable train wreck in the history of the High Bridge Branch occurred on the morning of Saturday, April 18, 1885 when the central and southern spans of the 250' long Gorge Bridge (now called the Ken Lockwood Gorge Bridge) collapsed as a . . . — — Map (db m21806) HM |
| | The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to the TISCO Complex
The 28.3 acre TISCO Complex was once part of a 10,000 acre parcel of land owned by wealthy Philadelphia Investors William Allen and Joseph Turner who founded the Union Iron . . . — — Map (db m37048) HM |
| | The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Union Forge
Union Iron Works was founded by William Allen, a Supreme Court justice in Philadelphia, and Joseph Turner, a sea Captain in 1742, as a business venture. Allen and Turner . . . — — Map (db m37043) HM |
| | Constructed in 1890, this Carnegie Steel bridge served the Taylor Iron and Steel Company for 85 years. Restored by Union Forge Heritage Association and volunteers, this bridge was dedicated on July 17, 2010 as part of the Taylor Steelworkers . . . — — Map (db m68802) HM |
| | Furnace produced iron ore for the Continental Army, cannon balls, farm implements. Forgemaster's house is stucco building on slope. The William B. Honachefsky Memorial Tract encompasses 64 Acres, abutting Union Furnace — — Map (db m92789) HM |
| | Foster M. Voorhees, born in Clinton in 1856, served as the 37th & 39th governor of NJ from 1898 to 1902. After his death in 1927, his farm here became Voorhees Park — — Map (db m71406) HM |
| | Settled in the 18th Century as an agricultural community. Est. 1731, inc. 1798.
1798 Bicentenial 1998 — — Map (db m16928) HM |
| | Circa 1750. Settled by pioneer tenant farmers, Amsterdam developed by the mid-1800's into a hamlet featuring a general store, blacksmithy & shoe makers shop. — — Map (db m57591) HM |
| | We gratefully acknowledge the service of our past, present and future veterans. — — Map (db m19571) WM |
| | Authentic replica of wind-driven mill used for grinding grain into flour. — — Map (db m16752) HM |
| | A rock formation here on Pero's Hill in East Amwell Township stands among the more unusual in an area of diverse geology. Local legend persists the three brothers hoping to overcome the Devil were turned to stone to stand here today. — — Map (db m95585) HM |
| | Tenant Houses and Mill. Stone Dwelling before 1742. — — Map (db m16633) HM |
| | Founded 1816,
the first Methodist Church
in Hunterdon County.
Building erected in 1860.
Steeple removed in 1878
after a severe storm — — Map (db m17583) HM |
| | A log tavern on this site ca. 1764 offered shelter to travellers on the King’s Hwy. Later tavern ca. 1790 known for years as Johnson’s. — — Map (db m16829) HM |
| | To honor our Veterans and those who have served our country protecting our rights and keeping us free. — — Map (db m21469) WM |
| | Named after Miller Kline who operated a Dry Goods store, Post Office, and Tavern. Tavern House dates to the mid-18th century. A place of considerable business, area was then known as Mount Carmel. — — Map (db m16681) HM |
| | Designed by noted Philadelphia architect Edwin Forrest Durand, the church was built in 1865 by Cornelius Arnett. An 1895 renovation added the rounded arch entrance as well as second level stained glass windows. The church contributes to the . . . — — Map (db m47735) HM |
| | Revolutionary War Lieutenant, and pallbearer of George Washington is buried here, along with Sam Holcombe, one of Gen. Washington's spies. — — Map (db m16861) HM |
| | Used during the Revolutionary War by both Gen. George Washington and British Gen. Charles Cornwallis to view opposing activity up & down the river. This local promontory has long since been known as Washington's Rock. — — Map (db m62383) HM |
| | First section built about 1733. Washington stayed here, July, 1777, and June 1778, prior to battles of Germantown and Monmouth. — — Map (db m62002) HM |
| | Earlier known as Coates' Ferry, then Coryell's Ferry.
The Lambert family settled here circa 1735, and gave the town its current name. — — Map (db m16860) HM |
| | 1726, Coates' Ferry; 1733, Coryell's Ferry. Used by Washington, who stayed here three times. First bridge and new name, 1812. — — Map (db m17081) HM |
| | Built in 1870 and occupied by the Holcombe family until 1922, the A.H. Holcombe House was purchased by the city of Lambertville in 1950 to serve as City Hall. It is one of the earliest and best examples of the French Second Empire style in . . . — — Map (db m63104) HM |
| | From 1949 Until 1971 Many Famous Film And Stage Stars
Got Their Start In One Of The Country’s First Tent Theaters Located First In Lambertville And Then Here In West Amwell. — — Map (db m17082) HM |
| | The outlet lock at this location was built to allow canal boats to pass between the Delaware & Raritan Canal and Pennsylvania's Delaware Canal. Canal boats loaded with coal from the Lehigh Valley would come down the Lehigh Canal to Easton, . . . — — Map (db m100644) HM |
| | The Belvidere-Delaware Railroad c.1851. Later leased to the Penn R.R. System, the line allowed transit of Lehigh & Hudson R.R. passenger trains. — — Map (db m16857) HM |
| | The Bel-Del Railroad shops stood between the station and the river. Along with repairing trains, the shops built locomotives between 1864 and 1872. — — Map (db m16855) HM |
| | Lewis Island Shad Fishery
Holcombe Island
Lambertville, N. J.
Richard Holcombe began this historical American shad fishery circa 1771. In 1888, William Lewis assumed the responsibility of the fishery and after his passing, his son, Fred . . . — — Map (db m133436) HM |
| | From about 1817 to 1834, home of James Wilson Marshall, who discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848. — — Map (db m56757) HM |
| | Park, formerly called York Street Park, was re-named for longtime Lambertville City Clerk (1948-1982) and Mayor (1983-1988). Park was established in 1900 when Civil War Monument, dedicated in 1870 was moved from Mount Hope Cemetery to this location. . . . — — Map (db m16858) HM |
| | In memory of
PFC. Charles L. Danberry
who gave his life in
service for his country
serving in the U.S.M.C.
in Vietnam. — — Map (db m18265) HM |
| | Washington's army left Valley Forge in 1777 and moved northeast. They crossed the Delaware at Coryell's Ferry (Lambertville), remained for two days, then marched along today's Rte.518 on their way to the Battle of Monmouth on June 28th. — — Map (db m49216) HM |
| | Where did they go?
Bluebirds were once common throughout the United States. However, over the last century their population has diminished due to loss of their natural habitat, overuse of pesticides and predators.
Compounding the problem . . . — — Map (db m22511) HM |
| | Originally named “Jacksonville” after Andrew Jackson.
Major stop on Easton-New Brunswick Turnpike from 1806. Town set off from Clinton Township in 1926. — — Map (db m16769) HM |
| | Congregation formed in 1747. This building erected in 1854, preceded by a log structure, a frame building,
and a brick church. — — Map (db m16768) HM |
| | The German Rockaway now Lebanon Reformed Dutch Reformed Church was established in the area of Lebanon & Pottersville between 1731 - 1747. The exact date & location unknown.
Three buildings have stood upon this site, the first of which was a log . . . — — Map (db m26480) HM |
| | In memory and appreciation of our men and women who served and sacrificed defending America's Freedom. — — Map (db m57875) HM |
| | Established in 1929, the facility promoted the farm school ideas of communal living and outdoor health. Like similar institutions of the era and in keeping with the ideals of juvenile reform, the facility originally had no fences to disrupt the . . . — — Map (db m40681) HM |
| | In 1913, the State of New Jersey acquired 747 acres to establish a farm colony to treat the mentally ill. During World War I, inmates from the reformatory at Rahway farmed the property to provide emergency food supplies for the war effort. After the . . . — — Map (db m40766) HM |
| | Post Marker:
Known as
Old Swack Church
Erected 1844
Builder Jacob Swackhammer
In use until 1896
Small marker on concrete post:
Mount Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church
(Commonly known as . . . — — Map (db m17392) HM |
| | It served as a burial ground from 1844 to 1915. Built by "Stuttering Jake" Swackhammer for the ministry of his uncle, Rev. Lambert Swackhammer, an opponent of slavery and alcohol, its church members over the years were predominantly of the Lutheran . . . — — Map (db m83711) HM |
| | Congregation formed in 1844. Church built in 1858.
Hamlet was then called New Market. — — Map (db m59984) HM |
| | Encompasses the 18th Century Hamlets of Linvale & Snydertown. Placed on the New Jersey & National Register of Historic Places in 1997. — — Map (db m17085) HM |
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