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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D42_trent-house_Trenton-NJ.html
Trent House. . . An immigrant from Scotland, Philadelphia merchant William Trent built this house in 1719 on a traditional Lenape site for his family and enslaved servants. During the American Revolution it served as a base for Hessian forces, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CNK_historic-downtown-trenton_Trenton-NJ.html
Historic Downtown Trenton. Start Your Tour Here!. . 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 w…
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Trenton originated with a gristmill founded near this spot on the Assunpink Creek over three centuries ago. The mill drove the early economic growth of the town, soon becoming known as Trent's or the Trenton Mills after the family that owned and i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IJC_the-alexander-douglass-house_Trenton-NJ.html
was originally built circa 1760 on what is now South Broad Street as a one room, two story "shanty." Alexander Douglass purchased it in 1769 and it was in that place that George Washington called a Council of War during the Revolutionary…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IJB_william-trent-house-nhl_Trenton-NJ.html
William Trent, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant (later Chief Justice of New Jersey) built this country manor house circa 1719, at the highest navigable point of the Delaware River. An important Hessian guard post was sited on the grounds the mornin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IA6_pettys-run_Trenton-NJ.html
Don't let the sloping lawn and park-like setting deceive you. A natural stream, Petty's Run, flowed in a steep ravine at this spot, joining the Delaware River just beyond where the War Memorial sits today. Native Americans camped along the bluffs …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I5E_west-front-street_Trenton-NJ.html
Surprising as it may seem, you are standing on the line of a historic street that as various times was bordered by mills, row homes and businesses. For more than a hundred years, from the early 1790s until Mahlon Stacy Park was established in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I5D_the-trenton-steel-works_Trenton-NJ.html
Making steel in the 18th century was a challenge, especially in America. Steel was essential for making edge tools, such as axes and scythes, and other items like bayonets, knives and the mechanisms for guns and clocks; yet the science of making s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HJU_pettys-run_Trenton-NJ.html
The stone-lined channel that plunges over the bluff edge below you was once a free-flowing water course. Today it is a partially abandoned segment of the city's storm drain system drawing in run-off from West State Street and a handful of building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HJC_front-street-paper-mill_Trenton-NJ.html
Most of the historic walls before you relate to the Front Street Paper Mill, which operated from around 1827 until 1876. The rectangular pit originally contained a giant overshot waterwheel, six to eight feet wide and 18 to 20 feet in diameter, fe…