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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZJB_sussex-county-public-safety-memorial_Newton-NJ.html
Sussex County Public Safety Memorial
Dedicated to Those Who Have Given Their Lives in Service to Our Community
Law Enforcement
Roll of Honor
John D. Kinney Newton - 1934 · Joseph C. Walter Jr. New Jersey State Police - 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U9U_u-s-s-bunker-hill-memorial-a-war-memorial_Newton-NJ.html
In Memory Of The Men
Who Lost Their Lives
On The U.S.S. Bunker Hill
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM172G_old-newton-burial-ground_Newton-NJ.html
Oldest portion dedicated in 1762 as part of Town Plot. Enlarged about 1820. Job S. Halsted donated 3/5 acre in 1837 to Presbyterian Church. Enclosed by wall in 1837. By 1876, burials estimated at 5000 including many of the earliest settlers of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM172D_moodys-raids_Newton-NJ.html
Newton was the scene of raids made by the Tory, James Moody. Washington's Asst. Quartermaster, Thomas Anderson, stored supplies here. Oct. 1779, his troops marched here and during the Indian Campaign Gates stationed a detachment here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLC4_sussex-county-veterans-memorial_Newton-NJ.html
Veterans Memorial 2005Honoring all Veterans - Past, Present and Future
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI5C_newton-green_Newton-NJ.html
The only Colonial county seat in New Jersey where a court house on its original site fronts a town square or public Green.
In 1908 architect J.J. Vreeland added an upper story and Classical porch to the County Clerk and Surrogate Offices, built…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI4P_twin-bridges_Newton-NJ.html
Two rudimentary bridges were built to cross the Tockhockonetcong (now the Paulinskill) as Jonathan Hampton ordered the construction of the Military Road in 1756. An essential supply line to the frontier fortification in the Delaware Valley, the Mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI4O_yellow-frame-presbyterian-church_Newton-NJ.html
In 1887, bordering "The Great Road" (Rt. 94) where Warren and Sussex Counties meet at an elevation 880 feet, a church and manse were erected as the third location of this Presbyterian congregation, built in the Victorian Queen Anne style by Simeon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHKB_henry-w-merriam_Newton-NJ.html
President of the H.W. Merriam Shoe Company, he relocated his factory from New York City to Newton in 1873. The nation's largest producer of ladies' and children's shoes, it was also the largest employer in Sussex County with over 350 employees. He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHKA_fredon_Fredon-Township-NJ.html
Fredon Township, incorporated in 1904 became the last town in Sussex County and the only so named in the Country. Fredon, a name proposed for our nation in the early 1800's means a place of peace and freedom. The Route 94 crossroads, known as Cour…