Historic Burlington County Prison Museum

1811-1865

The Burlington County Prison Museum is a National Historical Landmark located here in the heart of historic Mount Holly, New Jersey.

Designed by Robert Mills, one of America's first native-born and trained architects, the Burlington County Prison was completed in 1811.

As ...

Banneker Circle: Vista to the Past

River Farms to Urban Towers

This high ground serves as a monument to Benjamin Banneker, a free African American who charted the stars for the first survey of Washington, DC. Banneker was 60 years old when he hired on to ...

Liberty Pole

The Liberty Pole erected here in 1766 to celebrate repeal of Stamp Act has been replaced several times. Present one, 1964.

Marker is at the intersection of West Palisade Avenue (County Route 505) and Lafayette Avenue, on the left when traveling ...

Liberty Pole

The Liberty Pole erected here in 1766 to celebrate repeal of Stamp Act has been replaced several times. Present one, 1964.

Marker is at the intersection of West Palisade Avenue (County Route 505) and Lafayette Avenue, on the left when traveling ...

Historic Prison

This Burlington County Jail

was designed, 1808, by Robert

Mills, noted Federal

architect. His plan still

influences penal building.

Marker is at the intersection of High Street and Grant Street, on the right when traveling south on High Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Dead of Prairie Grove

The men who died on this field on December 7, 1862 are buried in the soldier cemeteries in Fayetteville. 700 unknown Confederate soldiers are in the cemetery maintained by the Southern Memorial Association on East Mountain. The Union dead are ...

11th Pennsylvania Infantry

2d Brigade, 2d Division

(Front):11th Pennsylvania

Infantry.

(Back):Present at Gettysburg

23 officers and 269 men

killed & died of wounds 13 men

wounded 8 officers. 54 men

Captured or missing 57 men

Total 132

Total enrollment 2096

Killed and died of wounds

12 officers. 219 men Total 231

Wounded 43 officers. 729 ...

Brookside Chapel

Built in 1860 on Palisade Avenue as “The Englewood Presbyterian Church”, it was the first church established in the city. A new, larger church was built on the original site and the old building was taken down, stone by stone, ...

Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church

Organized in 1865, the congregation first met in homes and in the armory on Van Brunt St. The original church was built in 1866. The present chapel was erected in 1895 as a parish hall. Today’s Gothic church structure, built ...

107th Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):107th Penna. Infantry

1st. Brig. 2d. Div.

1st Corps

July 1. The Regiment fought here from 1 p.m. until the Corps retired and then took position on the left of Cemetery Hill. In the evening of the 2d. moved to ...