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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AF_trenton-ready-for-war_Trenton-NJ.html
Trenton contributed mightily to the national war effort in World War I and World War II, mobilizing men and women to fight and to sustain those doing the fighting, and stepping up production in those factories providing materials critical to the m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AA_roebling-wire-rope-and-american-bridges_Trenton-NJ.html
One of the iron and steel products for which Trenton became best known was wire rope. Originally developed as a stronger and more durable alternative to hemp, wire rope was first successfully produced in America in the early 1840s by John A. Roebl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A5_canals-and-railroads-arteries-to-the-heart-of-industrial-trenton_Trenton-NJ.html
As the United States began to feel the full force of the Industrial Revolution and expand its own manufacturing and commercial base, cities like Trenton that were blessed with an advantageous location were in the forefront of transportation develo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A3_cooper-hewitt-iron-steel_Trenton-NJ.html
Trenton initially developed as a center of iron and steel production as a result of the efforts of Peter Cooper, the well-known inventor, industrialist and philanthropist from New York City. In the mid-1840s, as Cooper began to turn his attention …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29V_from-teacups-to-toilets_Trenton-NJ.html
Trenton burst forth as the premier pottery-producing center of the Eastern United States in the second half of the 19th century, the city skyline soon being dominated by the smokestacks of pottery kilns. Trenton's location as a transportation hub …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29P_from-federal-city-to-state-capital_Trenton-NJ.html
Following the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the newly independent United States were faced with establishing a national capital. Up to this point the Continental Congress had met in several places, most often in Philadelphia and New York City. Congress…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29O_the-battles-of-trenton-turning-point-of-the-revolution_Trenton-NJ.html
By December of 1776, the Continental Army had withdrawn in disarray from New York, across Central New Jersey and the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.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 b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29N_slavery-an-odious-and-disgraceful-practice_Trenton-NJ.html
From the onset of European settlement in North America slavery was a recognized institution and integral to the colonial economy. Although Quakers discouraged the practice, settlers of other religious faiths living in the Delaware Valley maintaine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM290_trentons-early-houses-of-worship_Trenton-NJ.html
Europeans and Africans moving into the Middle Delaware valley in the late 17th and 18th centuries professed and practiced a variety of religious faiths. In the case of the incoming European settlers, most held to some form of Protestant Christian …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28X_20th-century-and-later-trenton-timeline_Trenton-NJ.html
(see the individual stones photographed below)