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Camp Evans Historic District is an area of the Camp Evans Formerly Used Defense Site in Wall Township, New Jersey.The site of the military installation is noted for a 1941 transatlantic radio receiver and various World War II/Cold War laboratories of the United States Army (e.g., signal, vacuum tube, dosimetry, & photo-optics
[7] [8] The Main Street Bridge, a Pratt truss bridge crossing the South Branch Raritan River, was designed by Francis C. Lowthorp and built in 1870 by William Cowin of Lambertville replacing an earlier bridge. On October 30, 1891, a major fire destroyed 23 buildings and 17 businesses on Main Street.
The Steuben House is a noted example of Bergen Dutch sandstone architecture, located at New Bridge Landing on the Hackensack River in River Edge, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It was confiscated from Loyalist Jan Zabriskie, and served as a military headquarters through much of the Revolutionary War.
The sign stated, "This was the site of a home built by John Reid, an early settler. As a New Jersey surveyor, Reid drew the dividing line between East and West New Jersey, an early important geographical boundary. The New Jersey Historic Sites Inventory called the site an important farmstead and the home a notable architectural example.
New Bridge was a prosperous mill hamlet, centered upon a bridge strategically placed at the narrows of the Hackensack River.In the American Revolution, New Bridge Landing was the site of a strategic bridge crossing the Hackensack River, where General George Washington led his troops in retreat from British forces November 20, 1776.
Vincentown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [7] located on the South Branch Rancocas Creek in Southampton Township of Burlington County, New Jersey. [6] [8] The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08088. [4] As of the 2010 United States Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 08088 ...
The village was a planned community established by Moravians starting in 1769 after they purchased 1,000 acres (400 ha) from John Samuel Green, Jr. The community, previously known as Greenland, developed a detailed development plan in 1774 and was renamed Hope.
Named to the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in New Jersey in 2020, the Cranford Roundhouse is one of only three known surviving roundhouses in the state. Preservation NJ noted that the roundhouse had "enormous potential for adaptive reuse that would be attractive to the town’s growing population, such as artists’ studio space, a small ...