Battle of the Spurs

Just before Christmas, 1858, John Brown "liberated" eleven slaves in Missouri. He hid them in a covered wagon and circled north on the underground railway toward Nebraska and freedom. En route a Negro baby was born. Late in January they ...

Liberation

Dedicated to America’s role of preserving freedom and rescuing the oppressed, this monument, by Natan Rapoport, of an American soldier carrying a World War II concentration camp survivor was gifted to the State of New Jersey through the generosity of ...

Bristol Revolutionary War Plaque

In Memory Of The

Revolutionary War Patriots

Who Sacrificed Their Lives

And Fortune For Their Country

Placed By

Katherine Gaylord Chapter

Daughters Of The American Revolution

1964

Marker is on Memorial Boulevard 0.2 miles east of East Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Morris Pesin’s Legendary Canoe Trip Which Launched Liberty State

On the foggy, drizzly morning of June 13, 1958, Morris Pesin (1911-1992) made his historic 8 minute canoe trip to the Statue of Liberty with a Jersey Journal reporter to dramatize the close proximity of the Jersey City shoreline to ...

Acquackanonk Bridge

American troops, encamped between the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, were ordered by Washington, Nov. 21, 1776, to cross the Passaic here. After burning the bridge, they marched across Jersey. The Blanchard House often was used as a headquarters.

Marker is at ...

Luckenbach

Members of the Luckenbach family and other German immigrants moved here from Fredericksburg in the 1850s. They settled along Grape Creek and soon established a school for their children. The Grape Creek Post Office was in operation briefly after 1858 ...

Bristol World War I Memorial

This memorial was erected to honor those soldiers from Bristol, Connecticut who lost their lives during World War I. A pin-oak tree has been planted along the Memorial Boulevard, which was donated to the City of Bristol by Albert F. ...

Brookside's Unique Heritage / Brookside Russian Orthodox Church

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Brookside's Unique Heritage

Originally settled by the Samuel and Mary “Polly” Fields family in the 1820s, Brookside enjoyed a quiet life as an agricultural community until industrialists discovered rich coal deposits here. Sloss-Sheffield Iron and Steel Company mined the area ...

The Baty Place

Built about 1830 by Samuel Judah, distinguished

pioneer lawyer who won the famous land grant case

for Vincennes University in the U. S. Supreme Court.

Occupied from 1848 to 1865 by Dr. John Isidore Baty,

builder of the three story addition. It is thought

to ...

Newberry College

This fully-accredited Lutheran-controlled college was chartered by the General Assembly of South Carolina on December 20, 1856. Dr. John Bachman, noted divine and naturalist, was the first president of the board of trustees. The college was used as a Confederate ...