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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WN7_fiddlers-creek-history-historical_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
Today, this nature preserve features a quiet woodland trail. In years past, one would have heard the sounds of bustling industry here. From the late 1700s into the 1900s a mill complex operated in this section of Fiddlers Creek. The creek itself w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SAN_henry-phillips-house_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
Henry Phillips was a third generation Phillips family member in Pleasant Valley; his grandfather arrived in 1737. Ca, 1805, Henry constructed the stone section of the house on the land he inherited from his father. Ca, 1830, he added the large fra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SAH_geography-historic-landscape-of-jacobs-creek_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
Early DevelopmentAttracted by rich soils, farmers began settling in the area around Jacobs Creek as early as the late 17th century. The agricultural landscape and heritage they established defined the region's unique identity.
Prior to 1690, fe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SAF_washingtons-march-to-trenton_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
On Christmas night, 1776, the Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington, crossed the Delaware River and began what is known as the Ten Crucial Days of the American Revolution. A few hundred feet from where you now stand, Was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SAE_bridges-roads-and-railroads-of-jacobs-creek_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
Bear Tavern RoadAlthough much of the surrounding countryside has changed over the course of the more that two centuries that have passed since George Washington and the Continental Army made their famous march to Trenton n late December of 1776, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM179S_continental-lane_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
Road over whichWashington's ArmyBegan its march to TrentonDecember 26 1776
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1606_spring-house_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
This Spring House was used by the family living at the colonial Ferry House across route 9. The Spring House and the Store Barn facing the Ferry House are the only outbuildings of a once thriving family homestead and tavern.
Spring Houses were …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNGT_the-historic-district-of-titusville_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
Named for the family of settler Joseph Titus, who established two sawmills and a fishery here in the 1700's, Titusville was a major industrial and transportation center in the mid-19th century. Spurred by the construction of the Delaware and Rarit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLQ1_brick-hotel_Newtown-PA.html
Prior to 1750, there existed a dwelling on this site, 1 East Washington Avenue, which had been built by Shadrach Walley, Newtown's first settler. Amos Strickland, a farmer and entrepreneur from Philadelphia, bought the property in 1760. In 1763, h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6QA_the-march-to-trenton_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
"The troops marched with the most profound silence and good order. They arrived by two routes at the same time, about half an hour after daylight, within one mile of the town. The storm continued with great violence ?"Colonel Henry Knox, Continent…