Historical Markers and War Memorials in New Brunswick, New Jersey
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A crucial step in the evolution of modern plant agriculture was the
development of low-cost, energy-efficient greenhouse structures that
provide optimum growing conditions year-round.
In 1964, Professor William J. Roberts developed . . . — — Map (db m195092) HM
Here Early December 1776 Alexander Hamilton (Graduate of King’s College) with his Battery of horse artillery covered the ford of the Raritan delaying the advance of the British across the river while Washington withdrew through Princeton to . . . — — Map (db m10010) HM
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey ---------- Alexander Johnston Hall 1830 ----------Alexander Johnston Hall, the second oldest building at Rutgers, was designed by Nicholas Wyckoff in 1830 to provide a home for the Rutgers Preparatory . . . — — Map (db m62727) HM
Congregation Anshe Emeth was founded October 11, 1859. It was the first incorporated Jewish congregation in Middlesex County, and the fourth in New Jersey. The congregation, which followed American Reform liturgical practices, built New Brunswick’s . . . — — Map (db m94036) HM
(Inscription on the grave marker is illigible)
(Bronze Tablet) In Memory of Brigadier General Anthony Walton White
An officer of the American Army of the Revolution. A member of General Washington’s staff. Washington, Lafayette, and Kosciuszko . . . — — Map (db m94019) WM
Built about 1735 and occupied until 1774 by Anthony White whose wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Morris, and whose son was General Anthony White.
Owned and occupied from 1774 by General William Burton of the British Army.
Owned by the . . . — — Map (db m8979) HM
Buccleuch Mansion was built circa 1735-1739 by Anthony White for his bride Elizabeth, daughter of New Jersey Royal Governor Lewis Morris. Their son, Anthony Walton White, who was born and raised here, was an aide-de-camp to George Washington and an . . . — — Map (db m242002) HM
Christ Church, founded in 1742, was entered onto the National Register of Historic Places in July 28, 1989. In 1776, the third public reading of the Declaration of Independence was made from the foot of the church tower. Funding for the Exterior . . . — — Map (db m94014) HM
Christ Church Parish was organized in 1742 through the efforts of the Society for the Propacation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts-Samuel Seabury First Bishop in America 1754 Rector 1757-Abraham Beach active in the organization of the Episcopal Church . . . — — Map (db m94018) HM
Gift of Class of 1924 in memory of Victor W. Simons, USNR August W. Lentz, Jr., USN Basil D. Gallagher, AUS died in World War II 1949 — — Map (db m62731) HM WM
Here in 1791, at what was then the end of George Street, stood College Hall, the second home of Queen’s College, now Rutgers University. The first home of the college with its grammar school, 1771-1791, was at the north-east corner of Albany and . . . — — Map (db m62694) HM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Daniel S. Schanck Observatory
1866
The Daniel S. Schanck Observatory, a two-story edifice which includes a revolving roof and a rear wing connected by a passageway, was . . . — — Map (db m10068) HM
Here on June 12 1947
The First Constitutional Convention to be held in New Jersey in one hundred three years was convened -
Here at Rutgers University – The State University of New Jersey eighty one Delegates, men and women elected by the . . . — — Map (db m168342) HM
Built in 1956, Frelinghuysen Hall is named for the Frelinghuysen family, including U.S. Senator Frederick Frelinghuysen (1753-1804), who enslaved Black people. He was a trustee and the first instructor at Queen's College (renamed Rutgers College). . . . — — Map (db m188172) HM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Geology Hall
1872
This brownstone structure was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, the great-great-grandson of Rutgers’ first president. The building served as home to . . . — — Map (db m10017) HM
History The stones here were excavated from George Street before the route 18 expansion in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
It was believed that when the Delaware and Raritan Canal constructed Lock #13 at New Brunswick, goods were transferred . . . — — Map (db m240420) HM
Built in 1873, Gray Terrace, the private residence of Robert Wood Johnson, stood on the corner of College Avenue and Hamilton Street. Brothers Robert Wood, James Wood, and Edward Mead Johnson founded Johnson & Johnson in 1886 in New Brunswick. . . . — — Map (db m208929) HM
Hardenbergh Hall was built in 1956 and named for Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, who profited from the enslavement of Black people. Hardenbergh was a founder of Queen's College (renamed Rutgers College) and appointed its first president. He was a Dutch . . . — — Map (db m185252) HM
The Henry Guest House is the second oldest structure in New Brunswick. In 1760, Alderman Henry Guest, a tanner, constructed this sturdy home of native stone near the bank of Lyell's Brook at what later became the corner of Livingston Avenue and New . . . — — Map (db m208907) HM
Robert Wood Johnson founded Johnson & Johnson with his two brothers, Edward Mead and James Wood in 1886. Launched as an innovative startup, they invented the world's first mass-produced sterile surgical supplies.
That same year James found a . . . — — Map (db m208913) HM
Kirkpatrick Chapel, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (great-great-grandson of the first president of Rutgers, also the architect of Geology Hall), was built as a chapel and library. The library was removed in 1903, thus increasing the . . . — — Map (db m10016) HM
Built in 1873 in the High Victorian Gothic Revival style, this chapel was designed by New Brunswick native, Henry J. Hardenbergh, the great-great-grandson of Rutgers' first president, Rev. Jacob Hardenbergh. Its vibrant glass windows are some of the . . . — — Map (db m208911) HM
Erected by the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Middlesex County
Michael Welsh Director
Geo H Blakeley Consulting Engineer
Penn Bridge Co
Builders Beaver Falls PA
Landing Lane Bridge is a three span, haunched deck girder structure. It . . . — — Map (db m109273) HM
To the memory of the men of Rutgers College
Who fought for the cause of independence in the American Revolution
This tablet is placed by the
New Jersey Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution
on the 150th anniversary
(November 10, . . . — — Map (db m10071) HM
In 1901, Edward B. Vorhees established here the country's first academic Department of Soil Chemistry and Bacteriology. Early studies by Jacob Lipman, Selman Waksman, Robert Starkey, and René Dubos explored microbial roles in the nitrogen cycle, . . . — — Map (db m99308) HM
Settlement begun about 1680 by Dutch and English received from George II city charter as New Brunswick in 1730. This highway was an Indian trail to the falls of the Delaware and the Minisink Trail to Navesink crossed it here. It became the Great . . . — — Map (db m62691) HM
New Brunswick and the American Revolution
General George Washington and his Continental Army troops arrived at New Brunswick on November 29, 1776 during a retreat across New Jersey that had begun at Fort Lee nine days earlier. Washington . . . — — Map (db m208921) HM
Erected by the people of New Brunswick in memory of the brave soldiers and sailors who fought in the defence of the Union during the War of the Rebellion Williamsburg • Antietam • Fredericksburg • New Bern • Atlanta • Gettysburg • Winchester • . . . — — Map (db m62714) WM
In 1902, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie offered the City of New Brunswick $50,000 for a new library building. The next year, in November 1903, the building opened to the public. George K. Parsells was the architect who designed and . . . — — Map (db m208910) HM
Under the rooftree of the Inn which occupied this site General Washington tarried when in New Brunswick ----- On the adjoining square upon the arrival of the express rider the Declaration of Independence was acclaimed by all loyal citizens on July . . . — — Map (db m8954) HM
The city of New Brunswick, N.J. erects this memorial to her three sons who perished on the U.S.S. Maine February 15, 1898 in Havana Harbor, Cuba --------------- Frederick Lawrence Jernee William Henry Robinson John Henry Ziegler Back of . . . — — Map (db m15768) HM
Date 1903
William H. Brown, Engineer
The New Jersey Railroad, chartered in 1832, was completed between Jersey City and New Brunswick in 1835. On January 2, 1836, the first train, a new locomotive named "The New Brunswick" traveled down from . . . — — Map (db m95769) HM
On this high ground the 7th Regiment of the British Army had its camp and a redoubt while General Howe and his troops occupied New Brunswick December 1, 1776 to June 22, 1777. At the edge of the hill above the river a battery of the American Army . . . — — Map (db m41468) HM
Paul Robeson was one of the 20th century's greatest voices and trailblazing human rights and peace activist. The son of The Rev. William Drew Robeson, who escaped from slavery at the age of 15, and Maria Louisa Bustill, a free Black educator of . . . — — Map (db m168734) HM
Honoring Middlesex County recipients of “The Purple Heart” our nation’s oldest military medal My stone is red for the blood they shed. The medal I bear is my country’s way to show they care. If I could be seen by all mankind maybe peace will . . . — — Map (db m62736) WM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Queen’s Campus
1809
Queen’s College (now Rutgers University) opened for instruction in 1771 in a tavern known as “the Sign of the Red Lion” on the corner of . . . — — Map (db m10013) HM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Queen’s Campus
1809
Queen’s College (now Rutgers University) opened for instruction in 1771 in a tavern known as “the Sign of the Red Lion” on the corner of . . . — — Map (db m10040) HM
[Upper Right Hand Marker]:
“Expediens est seminaria verae
sophiae ericere”
XXX MAI MDCCLV
Queen’s College
Founded by Royal Charter 10, Nov. 1766
Fixed its third site by the erection of this . . . — — Map (db m10069) HM
“ Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty ” --------------- Marking the route taken by Washington from Philadelphia to Cambridge to assume command of the Patriot Army in 1775 --------------- Placed here by The New Jersey . . . — — Map (db m62692) HM
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey --------------- In memory of the men and women of Rutgers who were innocent victims of the terrorist attacks September 11,2001
Paul A. Acquavina RC ’94 • Evan J. Baron NCAS ’81 • David O. Campbell . . . — — Map (db m62733) HM
This building was erected in 1830 to house the grammar school known later as Rutgers Preparatory School. Contributions from the citizens of New Brunswick and the Trustees of Rutgers College financed its construction.
Rutgers Preparatory . . . — — Map (db m208918) HM
Listed in The New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places 2005
Restoration work funded in part by a grant from the Garden State Historic Preservation rust Fund, administered by the New Jersey Historic Trust, State of New Jersey . . . — — Map (db m208915) HM
Here, in Martin Hall, Selman A. Waksman and his students isolated antibiotics produced by actinomycetes, most notably streptomycin, the first effective pharmaceutical treatment for tuberculosis, cholera, and typhoid fever. They also isolated . . . — — Map (db m99305) HM
Planted in appreciation of the gift from the people of Tsuruoka, Japan, given in memory of the victims of 9/11 and as an expression of the friendship between New Brunswick and Tsuruoka.
New Brunswick and Tsuruoka signed a Sister . . . — — Map (db m208906) HM WM
In memory of SSgt. Frank Z. Molnar United States Armywho was killed in action in Kontum Province Republic of Vietnam on May 20, 1967. SSgt. Molnar was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of . . . — — Map (db m62713) HM
The oldest Catholic congregation in Middlesex County. St. Peter's was founded in 1829 by Bishop John DeBois of New York in a humble brick building on Bayard Street. The current stone Gothic Revival structure was designed by prominent architect of . . . — — Map (db m188171) HM
Previously known as "Reade's State Theatre," "B.F. Keith's State" and "RKP State Theatre," the theater opened on December 26, 1921, with vaudeville acts and the silent movie White Oak. It was the largest theater in New Jersey at the time. When the . . . — — Map (db m218972) HM
On November, 6 1869, on this site once known as College Field, Rutgers College hosted the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, in the first intercollegiate football game. The Rutgers team, then known as The Queensmen, defeated . . . — — Map (db m168341) HM
were held in November of 1771
at a former tavern
The Sign of the Red Lion
located at the northeast corner of
Albany and Neilson streets
Frederick Frelinghuysen (1753-1804)
graduate of the College of
New Jersey (Princeton) . . . — — Map (db m192414) HM
The Indian Trail from the Delaware at Minisink to the sea at Navesink passed through the ravine nearby. In this vicinity before 1680 was the cabin of Cornelius Van Langeveldt (Cornelius Longfield), first settler of New Brunswick. On this land . . . — — Map (db m95771) HM
Also known as the "Kissing Bridge," this favorite landmark was donated to Douglass College by the Class of 1926. Restored in the 1970's and again in 2001. Its original purpose was the span the ravine dividing the original campus from the land given . . . — — Map (db m95770) HM
The Reformed Dutch Church founded Queens College in 1766 in New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1784 as a professorate in New York City. In 1810, the Seminary relocated to New Brunswick, at which time its 1st professor, . . . — — Map (db m168344) HM
From 1811 to 1856 students preparing for ministry in the Reformed Church in America received their theological education in Old Queens.
Erected on the occasion of the Bicentennial of New Brunswick Seminary
1784-1984 — — Map (db m10072) HM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Van Nest Hall
1847
Originally two stories, Van Nest Hall was designed by Nicholas Wyckoff. Two nineteenth-century student literary societies, Peithessophian and . . . — — Map (db m10019) HM
This plaque honors Will, an enslaved black man who worked to lay the foundation for the Old Queens building in 1808. In recognition of Will’s labor and the role of slavery in Rutgers’ early history, the walkway from Hamilton Street to the entrance . . . — — Map (db m165148) HM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Winants Hall
1890
Designed by New York City architect Van Campen Taylor (Rutgers College, Class of 1867), Winants Hall was Rutgers’ sole dormitory until 1914. It is named . . . — — Map (db m10018) HM
Designed in 1890 by architect Van Campen Taylor, a member of the Class of 1867. Winants Hall was Rutgers' first dormitory. It is named for Garret E. Winants, a college trustee and philanthropist who donated $75,000 for its construction. In the late . . . — — Map (db m208914) HM
