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Former U.S. Presidents: #01 George Washington Historical Markers
By F. Robby, June 2, 2008
Church co-founded by Jonathan Hager
GEOGRAPHIC SORT WITH USA FIRST
| | December, 1770 - A congregation of German-Swiss refugees organized The First German Reformed Church in Elizabeth Town, Canageschik, Fredrich County, Province of Mereland. The first pastor was Jacob Weimer. Land was acquired from Jonathan Hager, Jr. . . . — — Map (db m20770) HM |
| | George Washington’s diary (while he visited Berkley Springs in 1769) states: “Aug. 30 Old Mr. Flint dined with us” and on Sept. 4: “Rid to the Potomac where my horses were. From thence to Mr. Flint’s and to the Pennsylvania Line, . . . — — Map (db m61485) HM |
| | Although now part of the Mumma Farm, and known as Mumma Cemetery, this site was first established as a burial ground by the Orndorff family. Living on this farm at the time of his death, Major Christian Orndorff II was buried here in December . . . — — Map (db m89939) HM |
| | Home of Brig. Gen. Otho Holland Williams, Revolutionary War hero and founder, 1786, of Williamsport, and of Col. Elie Williams, president of commission to lay out National Road and chief surveyor Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. President George . . . — — Map (db m3909) HM |
| | 1732: Born, Westmoreland Co. VA. — — Map (db m145971) HM |
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1749: Surveyor of Culpepper Co., Va.
1753-58: Officer in French and Indian War — — Map (db m145972) HM |
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1759: Marries Martha Custis.
1758-74: Member, VA. House of Burgesses. — — Map (db m145973) HM |
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1774: VA. Delegate to 1st Continental Congress
1775: Appointed Commander-in-Chief — — Map (db m145974) HM |
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1776:
Loses N.Y. to British
Declaration signed
1777:
British occupy Philadelphia
Winter at Valley Forge — — Map (db m145977) HM |
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1781: British surrender at Yorktown.
1783: British recognize American Independence. — — Map (db m145978) HM |
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1789:
Federal Constitution ratified;
Washington becomes President — — Map (db m145979) HM |
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1797: Leaves presidency
1799: Dies at Mt. Vernon — — Map (db m145981) HM |
| | In commemoration of the first completed monument
dedicated to the memory of George Washington.
Citizens of Boonsboro on July 4, 1827 marched behind
the Stars and Stripes to this site and built the tower to 15 feet.
They returned to . . . — — Map (db m129050) HM |
| | Volunteer villagers of nearby Boonesboro celebrated their Independence Day July 4, 1827, by building and dedicating this first monument to the memory of George Washington. Repaired and altered many times over a hundred years by patriotic citizens, . . . — — Map (db m1908) HM |
| | Background Overshadowed by the Battle of Antietam (near Sharpsburg), which took place three days later and resulted in a loss of 23,000 men, the Battle of South Mountain nevertheless played a crucial role in determining the outcome of . . . — — Map (db m129047) HM |
| | These tall cliffs seemed like solid ground when President Washington authorized the construction of Cape Cod’s first lighthouse here in 1797. But over the years, the waves of powerful winter storms have battered the base of this cliff. From time to . . . — — Map (db m141553) HM |
| | Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775 – 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate . . . — — Map (db m24017) HM |
| | Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775 – 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston. Erected by the . . . — — Map (db m24013) HM |
| | Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775 – 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston. Erected by the . . . — — Map (db m24007) HM |
| | Through this place passed
General Henry Knox
in the winter of
1775 – 1776
to deliver to
General George Washington
at Cambridge
the train of artillery
from Fort Ticonderoga used
to force the British Army
to evacuate Boston. . . . — — Map (db m97510) WM |
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In memory of
Benjamin Church
1756-1832
Soldier of the American Revolution
served in
General Lee’s Life Guard, 1775
General Artemus Ward’s Life Guard and
Captain Burbank’s Artillery, 1776
General Washington’s Life Guard, 1776
Took . . . — — Map (db m106285) HM WM |
| | This tablet marks the George Washington Memorial Highway at Palmer 1732 ----- 1932 — — Map (db m24391) HM |
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In 1795, Springfield Armory began manufacturing muskets for the United States Military, on a site where General George Washington authorized weapons to be stored during the Revolutionary War. Within decades, Springfield Armory became the nation's . . . — — Map (db m107114) HM |
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Through this Place Passed
General Henry Knox
In the Winter of
1775 - 1776
To Deliver To
General George Washington
At Cambridge
The Train of Artillery
From Fort Ticonderoga Used
To Force the British Army
To Evacuate . . . — — Map (db m23756) HM |
| | To the Memory Of
George Washington
Commander-In-Chief Of
The American Army
1775 — 1785
First President of the United States
Who endorsed the location of a magazine and laboratory at Springfield in 1777, personally inspected the . . . — — Map (db m110887) HM |
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Through this Place Passed
General Henry Knox
In the Winter of
1775 - 1776
To Deliver To
General George Washington
At Cambridge
The Train of Artillery
From Fort Ticonderoga Used
To Force the British Army
To Evacuate . . . — — Map (db m23754) HM WM |
| | Site of the
Fourth Meeting House
built in 1756.
Here Washington worshipped
in 1775.
Constitutional Convention
of Massachusetts
held here in 1779.
Lafayette welcomed here
in 1824. — — Map (db m77777) HM |
| | Built in 1759 Headquarters for George Washington 1775 – 1776 . Home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Family & Descendants 1837 1950 — — Map (db m19085) HM |
| | Washington
Passed This Place
On His Way to
Cambridge
To Take Command
of the
Patriot Army
June 1775 July
— — Map (db m29925) HM |
| | This tablet marks the George Washington Memorial Highway at Waltham 1732 ------- 1932 — — Map (db m18558) HM |
| | “Don’t fire ‘til you see the whites of their eyes.” The Battle of Bunker Hill, fought here on Breed’s Hill, June 17, 1775, was the first major military confrontation of the Revolutionary War. Although the British won the . . . — — Map (db m18094) HM |
| | Born in Wexford Ireland 1745 Died in Philadelphia 1803 Received first commission from the Continental Congress to command the Lexington 1775 Sailed from Boston on the Raleigh 1778 Acclaimed in Boston in 1780 for victories on the Alliance Appointed . . . — — Map (db m41561) HM |
| | Sir William Phips 1651 - 1695 First Royal Governor of Massachusetts under the Charter of 1691. One of twenty-six brothers and sisters. A poor boy apprenticed to a ship's carpenter in the North End. In 1687 he recovered from a Spanish galleon . . . — — Map (db m76593) HM |
| | The first building on this site was The New North Meeting House erected in 1714 and enlarged in 1730At the request of General Washington, March 28, 1776 immediately following the evacuation of Boston by the British The Reverend Andrew Eliot, then . . . — — Map (db m76622) HM |
| | Worlds collide in Mackinac’s “Middle Ground” Charles Michel de Langlade was an Odawa war chief, diplomat, fur trader and a French officer. He was one of the most influential people in the Great Lakes during the 1700s, due to his . . . — — Map (db m154700) HM |
| | Planted April 27 1932
This tablet placed
Americanization Day
April 27 1934
By Halvarson-Bowers Aux' 187
Veterans of Foreign Wars — — Map (db m17227) HM |
| | Until 1798, The Mississippi Territory was under Spanish rule. Threatened with banishment to the silver mines of Mexico because of preaching, Richard Curtis, Jr. returned to South Carolina until there was a change in the government. President . . . — — Map (db m105490) HM |
| | Permanent settlers began arriving in the area of present-day Washington, Missouri, in the 1790s. After former United States President George Washington died at his Virginia estate in 1799, numerous cities, counties and a state were named in his . . . — — Map (db m124397) HM |
| | James Monroe was born at Monroe's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia on April 28, 1758 to Scots-Welsh parents. He attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia but left school to enlist in the Third Virginia Regiment, . . . — — Map (db m149767) HM |
| | On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.
Born in 1732, into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, . . . — — Map (db m133632) HM |
| | — Washington — first took command of the American Army under the grandparent of this elm at Cambridge, Mass, July 3, 1775. Raised an given by Maryland D.A.R. Marked by Nevada D.A.R. This tree is planted as part of the two hundredth . . . — — Map (db m160564) HM |
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Colonel Tobias Lear
was born in this house in 1760.
He was George Washington’s Secretary
from 1783 to 1799.
Washington visited here in 1789.
This tablet is placed by the Society
of the Sons of the Revolution
of the State of New . . . — — Map (db m115969) HM |
| | At Lower Closter Dock – on the riverfront just south of here – a British invasion force of 5,000 troops commanded by Lord Cornwallis landed before dawn on November 20, 1776. Guided by three Bergen County residents, they climbed the . . . — — Map (db m144530) HM |
| | This area named for a Liberty Pole erected here before the Revolution. The strategic junction was the scene of many American and British troop movements, including the 1776 retreat of the Continental Army from Fort Lee, and British activity in 1776 . . . — — Map (db m7012) HM |
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Beneath these cliffs, Henry Hudson’s Half-Moon was welcomed by the Lenni Lenape Indians on September 3, 1609.
Nearly 167 years later, this giant Bluff Rock became a strategic stronghold in the American War for Independence as the conflict . . . — — Map (db m7707) HM |
| | Fort Lee Road (Main Street) was the main roadway to General Washington’s Headquarters in Hackensack. Supplies and men were in constant movement on the road to re-supply Fort Washington in New York. The Continental Army began it’s “Retreat to . . . — — Map (db m7657) HM |
| | General Washington was in Fort Lee many times during the Battle of New York. His main headquarters was in Hackensack, but had a temporary headquarters in Fort Lee near Anderson Avenue and Elizabeth Street. His main objective in Fort Lee was to . . . — — Map (db m7647) HM |
| | General Gates was commissioned a Brigadier General and was appointed Adjutant General of the Continental Army in 1775 by orders of General Washington. He was in Fort Lee with General Washington in October 1776. — — Map (db m7652) HM |
| | Fort Lee was constructed by General Mercer on October 18, 1776 on orders from General George Washington. Originally called Fort Constitution, it was re-christened Fort Lee in honor of General Charles Lee, second in command of the Continental Army, . . . — — Map (db m7653) HM |
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(1) July 12 - Fort Lee’s fortifications laid out. Together with Fort Washington on the opposite bank and aided by a river barrier, the twin fortresses are intended to thwart British control of the Hudson.
(2) July12 - General Howe’s forces . . . — — Map (db m7745) HM |
| | Old Army Road, now called Palisade Road, was used by General Washington and his staff to reach the palisades for observing movement on the Hudson River crossings and New York. The road was also used to re-supply General Knox’s artillery positioned . . . — — Map (db m7658) HM |
| | On July 12th, 1776, the British warships Phoenix and Rose sailed beneath the unarmed Bluff Rock, later named Fort Lee. This provocative action led Congress to order General Washington “By every art and whatever expense to obstruct effectively . . . — — Map (db m7712) HM |
| | (Front of Monument) :
In commemoration of the Soldiers of the American Revolution - 1776 – Erected by the State of New Jersey under the auspices of the Fort Lee Revolutionary Monument Association - 1908 –
(Left of . . . — — Map (db m7348) HM |
| | The Continental Army’s retreat route ran from the bluffs of Fort Lee’s Palisades, site of the American fortifications and nearby encampment, west on Fort Lee Road (present day Main Street) and continued west through the current towns of Leonia, . . . — — Map (db m70433) HM |
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| | Archibald Campbell’s tavern stood here. He supplied meals to General Washington when Peter Zabriskie’s home was used as military headquarters between November 13 and November 21, 1776 during the retreat across New Jersey. The army marched down Main . . . — — Map (db m7227) HM |
| | Earliest records of this pioneer Dutch church, dated 1686, mark it as the second oldest in New Jersey. Old stones embedded in the east wall show the initials of founding families and first settlers.
The old burying ground contains the grave of . . . — — Map (db m6820) HM |
| | Hackensack was a small village centered around The Green which served as a strategic point during the American Revolution.
Washington headquartered here in November 1776 while he surveyed the local roads and bridges. — — Map (db m6867) HM |
| | On November 20th 1776, General George Washington and part of the Continental Army on their march from Fort Lee to Trenton passed this way. — — Map (db m93363) HM |
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This Dutch Colonial house was built by Hendrick Van Allen before the Revolutionary War on a farm that consisted of over two-hundred acres. General George Washington used this house as his Headquarters on July 14-15, 1777, when he moved his troops . . . — — Map (db m12336) HM |
| | Located on Ramapo Valley Road key military highway for troops and supply units during the Revolutionary War this building served as General George Washington's headquarters on July 14, 1777 and as the Bergen County Court House in 1778 – 1779. — — Map (db m12335) HM |
| | George Washington
Kneeling in Prayer
by
Donald DeLue
Erected in Commemoration
of the
Fiftieth Anniversary
of the
George Washington
Memorial Park
Cemetery Association
1939 - 1989 — — Map (db m32427) HM |
| | Howland Avenue divided the farms of miller Cornelius Van Saun to the south and Christian Dederer to the north. Hendrick Banta lived west of Mill Creek. The Continental Army moved into Bergen County in August 1780 to forage for food and to await the . . . — — Map (db m8412) HM |
| | The Continental Army is reported to have utilized the old spring at the base of these slopes during the September encampment west of the Hackensack River. Reports indicate that General Washington visited here and drank water from the spring. — — Map (db m8413) HM |
| | Near this House of God encamped General Washington and his army in 1778 In grateful tribute to the memory of the patriots who sleep in the adjacent church yard and to the men and women of this community who assisted so valiantly in the establishment . . . — — Map (db m25022) HM |
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Organized in 1725 by pioneer Dutch settlers, the congregation of this church has worshipped here over 240 years. First church, built 1735 on this land given by Peter Fauconier, a French Huguenot, was a headquarters of Gen. George Washington in . . . — — Map (db m24983) HM |
| | Late one night in 1778, the woods you are standing in suddenly echoed with the sounds of battle. A surprise attack by British soldiers nearly destroyed an American regiment, Baylor’s 3rd Continental Light Dragoons. Today, this park tells the story . . . — — Map (db m8455) HM |
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Fieldsboro, incorporated in 1850, is the smallest municipality in Burlington County. Early land records identify the area as White Hill. One of its early settlers was Robert Field, who owned a wharf on the Delaware River, several businesses and a . . . — — Map (db m160138) HM |
| | On orders from General Washington to pull Hessian troops southward from positions of support near Trenton, 600 Americans, stationed at Mount Holly under Colonel Samuel Griffin, attacked a Hessian outpost here on December 21. When the 3,000 Hessians . . . — — Map (db m35866) HM |
| | Colonial hamlet, named for the Crane family, in whose home Washington stayed in October, 1780. Became Montclair in 1870's. — — Map (db m62505) HM |
| | This boulder which lay from time immemorial on this site near the turn of the old road marks the location of a house used by General George Washington as temporary headquarters on October 26, 1780 while on march from Totowa now Paterson to . . . — — Map (db m7572) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m6925) HM |
| | Colonel Charles Stewart
was George Washington's
Commissary-General of Issues.
The house was built in 1763. — — Map (db m16586) 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 |
| | George Washington stayed in this house while his troops camped between White House and New Bromley.
House burned in mid 1960’s. — — Map (db m16606) HM |
| | To commemorate the valour of
Captain Daniel Bray.
Who with a few patriotic citizens braved the enemy and collected enough boats from along the river to make possible the memorable crossing of the ice-laden Delaware of General Washington . . . — — Map (db m16591) HM |
| | This farmhouse is the only existing structure within the park that witnessed the Crossing of the Continental troops on December 25-26, 1776. It was built around 1740 by Rutger Jansen, a Dutchman from Flatbush, Long Island, on a tract of 490 acres . . . — — Map (db m10374) HM |
| | On this site, the allied American and French troops of Generals Washington and Le Comte de Rochambeau encamped August 29 to September 1, 1781 enroute to their Victory at Yorktown American independence was assured there in Virginia by the defeat . . . — — Map (db m64117) HM |
| | These English Boxwood plants were grown from George Washington’s hedges planted November 1798 on his Mount Vernon estate. — — Map (db m64119) HM |
| | Dedicated to the
Continental Marines Who
Fought with General Washington's
Troops During the
Battle of Princeton
January 3, 1777 — — Map (db m5430) HM |
| | This building, erected in 1756 by the College of New Jersey and named Nassau Hall in honor of King William III, was seized by British forces for military purposes in 1776, and retaken by the American Army January 3, 1777. Here met from June 30, . . . — — Map (db m44832) HM |
| | Here memory lingers to recall the guiding mind whose daring plan outflanked the foe and turned dismay to hope when Washington, with swift resolve, marched through the night to fight at dawn and venture all in one victorious battle for our freedom. . . . — — Map (db m5379) HM |
| | This monument, which commemorates the January 3, 1777 Battle of Princeton, depicts Liberty inspiring General Washington as he leads his troops into battle, and the death of General Hugh Mercer. The seals of the United States and the original . . . — — Map (db m62293) HM |
| | In 1772, Thomas Clarke, a Quaker farmer purchased 200 acres of land from his brother William. The land, then part of West Windsor, had been in the Clarke family since 1696. Thomas replaced an existing structure with the main house that stands today. . . . — — Map (db m149800) HM |
| | Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail www.w3r-us.org — — Map (db m62296) HM |
| | General George Washington and his soldiers paused to drink water from a nearby spring after the Battle of Princeton on January 3rd 1777. — — Map (db m64120) HM |
| | In commemoration of the two hundredth birthday of George Washington These eagles and this tablet were placed here by the New Jersey Society of the Colonial Dames of America — — Map (db m7275) HM |
| | To commemorate
the Bicentennial of the birthday of
General George Washington
at this spot hallowed by his stroke
of military genius in the crossing of
the Delaware on Christmas night – 1776
and to remind us
that the triumphs . . . — — Map (db m7276) HM |
| | This tablet is erected by the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey to commemorate the Crossing of the Delaware by General Washington and the Continental army on Christmas night of seventeen hundred and seventy six. — — Map (db m7247) HM |
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1702 The Proprietors of East and West Jersey relinquish the government of the provinces to Queen Anne, and New Jersey becomes a Royal Colony.
1714 Hunterdon County forms from the northern portion of Burlington County with the Assunpink . . . — — Map (db m4242) HM |
| | Circa 1766, Home of Alexander Douglass, Quartermaster in Washington’s Army, who fought in the Battle of Assunpink, Jan. 2, 1777.
Here on that date General Washington held the Council of War. Washington’s idea was to leave campfires burning on the . . . — — Map (db m3746) HM |
| | Erected to commemorate that noble spirit of justice displayed by Gen. George Washington after his capture of Trenton in December 1776, in returning to both Whig and Tory alike their personal effects, of which they had been ruthlessly plundered . . . — — Map (db m3757) HM |
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| | Mill Hill Park contains the site of Mahlon Stacy’s gristmill (later known as the Trenton Mills), the city’s very first industrial facility. The American Revolution’s Second Battle of Trenton was partly fought on the park grounds. The . . . — — Map (db m127197) HM |
| | This tablet commemorates the site where were held many meetings during the Revolutionary War and where was assembled on Nov. 1, 1784 the Continental Congress of the several confederated states.
Here the Marquis de Lafayette took final farewell of . . . — — Map (db m3995) HM |
| | Mill Hill is named because it overlooks the site of the grist mill built along the Assunpink Creek in 1679 by Mahlon Stacy, Trenton’s first settler.
On January 2, 1777, the Second Battle of Trenton was fought on the creek banks, and General . . . — — Map (db m3737) HM |
| | It is difficult to imagine that Mill Hill Park has ever been anything but a pleasant urban green space astride the Assunpink Creek, but this land had undergone remarkable changes. Over the past three centuries, it has been home to a mill and . . . — — Map (db m127138) HM |
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"We entered the town with them pell-mell, and here succeeded a scene of war of which I had often conceived but never saw before. The hurry, fright, and confusion of the enemy was [not] unlike that which will be when the last trump . . . — — Map (db m127001) HM |
| | By December of 1776, the Continental Army had withdrawn in disarray from New York, across Central New Jersey and the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. The British were in complacent pursuit, confident that it was only a matter of weeks or months . . . — — Map (db m4274) HM |
| | A Bicentennial commemorative site recognizing America’s 200th year of liberty
The Hermitage
Built in 1784 by General Philemon Dickinson of General Washington’s Contintental Army. Original part of building (removed 1905) was used as Hessian . . . — — Map (db m4066) HM |
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