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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OQ_site-of-crossing_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
[Marker Front]:View of the Delaware River at the site where Washington crossed from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, Christmas Night, 1776, with 2400 men, artillery and supplies. The troops marched nine miles to attack the Hessians stationed at Trenton…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OP_continental-lane_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
Road over which Washington's army began its march to Trenton December 26, 1776.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6ON_prelude-to-victory_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
You might well imagine that General George Washington stood where you are now stand as he patiently watched his force of 2400 troops march up from the boats on the river over the road in the immediate foreground. Through his officers he would dire…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OM_johnson-ferry-house_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
This farmhouse is the only existing structure within the park that witnessed the Crossing of the Continental troops on December 25-26, 1776. It was built around 1740 by Rutger Jansen, a Dutchman from Flatbush, Long Island, on a tract of 490 acres …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4I6_the-site-of-washingtons-crossing_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
General George Washington and 2400 Continental soldiers crossed the icy Delaware River from Pennsylvania and landed at this spot on Christmas night 1776 on their way to attack the British mercenary force of Hessian soldiers at Trenton.
The las…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4I4_ferry-site_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
At this site before 1748, a ferry was first owned and operated by Garrett Johnson.
It was used to transport the artillery from Pennsylvania to New Jersey the night Washington crossed the Delaware, December 25, 1776. At that time, it was operat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4I3_retreat-and-counterattack-1776_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
General George Washington, after losing New York to the British, led his rebel army in retreat through New Jersey and on Sunday, December 8, 1776 crossed the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. He commandeered every available boat along the river so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GN_bicentennial-of-general-george-washingtons-birthday_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
To commemoratethe Bicentennial of the birthday ofGeneral George Washingtonat this spot hallowed by his strokeof military genius in the crossing ofthe Delaware on Christmas night - 1776and to remind usthat the triumphs of the Revolutionwere made po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GM_200th-birthday-of-george-washington_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
In commemoration of thetwo hundredth birthday ofGeorge WashingtonThese eagles and this tablet were placed here by the New Jersey Society of the Colonial Dames of America
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GL_the-christmas-night-crossing_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
"I am determined, as the night is favorable, to cross the River, & make the attack upon Trenton in the Morning." General George Washington
After a series of defeats in New York in 1776, General George Washington's Continental Army retreated ac…