Continental Army Encampment at Morristown

1777 1781

The Artillery Park

The artillery under Gen. Henry Knox and the artificers under Col. Jeduthan Baldwin were encamped on this hillside during 1779-80. The soldiers were housed in huts. The guns were parked along this road. The horses were pastured ...

Continental Army Encampment at Morristown

1777 1781

The Artillery Park

The artillery under Gen. Henry Knox and the artificers under Col. Jeduthan Baldwin were encamped on this hillside during 1779-80. The soldiers were housed in huts. The guns were parked along this road. The horses were pastured ...

Continental Army Encampment

1779 - - - 1780

Brig. Gen. Henry Knoxin command of the artillery of the Continental Army used the field now covered by these ponds as pasture for the artillery horses. His soldiers lived in log huts erected on the hillside ...

Continental Army Encampment

1779 - - - 1780

Brig. Gen. Henry Knoxin command of the artillery of the Continental Army used the field now covered by these ponds as pasture for the artillery horses. His soldiers lived in log huts erected on the hillside ...

Continental Army Encampments at Morristown

1777 1781

Life Guard Camp

On this site the Commander in Chief’s Guard was encamped from December 1779 to June 1780. The Guard was reorganized in Morristown during the first encampment in 1777 and again in 1780. Washington made his headquarters in ...

Continental Army Encampments

• 1776 – 1782 •

Sansay House in which reception was given Lafayette on his return here July 14, 1825.

Marker is on DeHart Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Continental Army Encampments

· 1776 – 1782 ·

Site of Norris or Dickerson Tavern,

in which Benedict Arnold was tried

December 23, 1779 – January 26, 1780.

Marker is at the intersection of Spring Street and MLK Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Spring Street. ...