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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27KJ_atlantic-health-system_Morristown-NJ.html
Built by the Community Morristown resident Myra Brookfield, determined that her hometown should have its own hospital, bequeathed her house and property on DeHart Street for just that purpose in the late 1800s. A community-wide fund…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25VM_ford-mansion_Morristown-NJ.html
The Army is quartered within three Miles of this place, in the usual way of hutting. Head Quarters is in this Town, at the Widow Fords, at the great white House at the North end of the place.Major General Nathaniel Greene, December 25, 1779Jacob F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25VL_washingtons-headquarters-museum_Morristown-NJ.html
Completed in 1937, the Washington's Headquarters Museum was one of the first museums planned and constructed by the National Park Service. Noted architect John Russell Pope designed the museum to memorialize General George Washington and to provid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25VD_the-path-to-history_Morristown-NJ.html
On August 28, 1781, 5500 French troops under the command of General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau marched on the road before you on their way to Yorktown, Virginia. They had spent the previous night in Whippany, New Jersey.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V26_starks-brigade-historical_Morristown-NJ.html
"We arrived here the 14 Decr. Since which we have been imployed in Hutting . . [and] the weather is aceedingly cold and the snow two feet deep on a level . . . "Captain William Allen, Angell's Rhode Island Regiment, January 4, 1780On De…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V23_remembering-the-past-starks-brigade-monument-circa-1900-historical_Morristown-NJ.html
Americans began to commemorate their past by erecting monuments at the end of the 19th century. Monuments started to appear on the old campgrounds of Washington's army, long before the 1933 establishment of Morristown National Historical Park.Emor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TDF_soldiers-hut-replica-historical_Morristown-NJ.html
"December 19, 1779 - For two weeks we have been very diligently employed in building our Hutts. The weather has been rather against us, but we have got our buildings almost finished and find 'em very comfortable - so that barring accidents I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TDE_officers-hut-replica-historical_Morristown-NJ.html
"December 15, 1779 - The men of the Regt. Moved into their Hutts. The Officers Hutts were not yet finished for the Gen'l orders were for the officers to see their men Hutted first." - Lt. Rudolphus Van Hovenburgh, 4th NY RegimentWashing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S96_continental-soldiers-memorial_Morristown-NJ.html
In memory of the Continental Soldiers who died of small pox during the Revolutionary War 1775-1781. And of church members in the Old Baptist Cemetery and moved here in 1892.
Dedicated May 19, 1996
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q5W_horse-head-coppers_Morristown-NJ.html
In 1787-1788 copper for horse head pennies mined here and minted nearby by Walter Mould at John Cleves Symmes' home. "Solitude" house later became tavern, Wheatsheaf Inn.