Route of Washington’s March

Route of Washington’s march by night from Trenton to Princeton and victory January 3, 1777

(Adjacent Marker, below original on obelisk):

In Memory of all the deceased members of Hamilton Township Post 3525 Veterans of Foreign Wars

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Fort Armstrong

Fort Armstrong was built in 1816-1817. Its riverside was protected by limestone bluffs and its other sides were formed in part by the rear walls of barracks and storehouses. Blockhouses, like the replica, stood at three corners. The pyramid of ...

Route of Washington’s March

Route of Washington’s march by night from Trenton to Princeton and victory January 3, 1777

Marker is on Klockner Road 0.1 miles north of Hamilton Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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O'Bryne Ferry

In 1852 a chain cable bridge replaced the ferries that once crossed here, to be supplanted in its turn by a covered truss structure in 1862. Some writers claimed this was the locale of Bret Harte's Poker Flat. In late ...

Route of Washington’s March

Route of Washington’s march by night from Trenton to Princeton and victory January 3, 1777

Marker can be reached from Hamilton Ave.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Trenton’s Early Houses of Worship

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 ...

Site of Lewisville Academy

Founded 1901

Lewisville Academy, the first public high school in Forsyth County, was established in 1901. Lewisville Academy became a part of the consolidated Forsyth County School System in 1907. This site has served as the location of three subsequent public ...

The Waikoloa Petroglyph Field

Before you lies one of the major concentrations of ancient rock carvings in the Hawaiian Islands. Boundaries were not crossed casually in old Hawaii, and the thousands of surface carvings here, just north of the border between the ancient kingdoms ...

Battle Of Lower Bridge

Gen. Francis Marion and his men defeated the British at this place in March 1781. Advancing from the west and finding the bridge on fire, the enemy rushed the nearby ford, but here they were repulsed by troops led by ...

Frederick Douglass

?Frederick Douglass was a former runaway slave who was a leading orator and author of the abolitionist movement. He is regarded as one of the most influential Americans of the nineteenth century. On October 20, 1856, Douglass came to Beaver ...