The Cranbury Dam

The dam, constructed in the 1800's with rebuilding and repairs through the late 19th century, diverted the Cranbury Brook in order to supply power to the local grist and saw mills.

Local sewer construction in the 1977 unearthed and partially destroyed ...

The Marine Township Hall

The Marine Township Hall was constructed in 1872 as a meeting hall and jail. The building was erected on property donated by Orange Walker. Its construction was financed by Morgan May who took the town's bonds for the necessary $2,000. ...

The Hill Memorial

The Hill Memorial

Headquarters

of the

Sussex County Historical Society

Built 1916 in Renaissance Revival style by gift of Joshua Hill. Dedicated June 8, 1917. Listed 1985 on State and National Historic Registers as the oldest Museum Building in New Jersey.

Marker is at the ...

Sacred to the Memory of the Soldiers

Sacred

to the memory

of the

Soldiers

of the War of

1861 to 1865.

Marker can be reached from 4th Avenue 0.3 miles north of County Highway C, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

A New Home in the Hills

Soon after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862, homesteaders moved west across the prairies and spread into the hills of Pikes Peak. In the 1870s, the Crowe family claimed 160 acres in this valley that later came ...

The Albert Cook Memorial

To the Martyrs who fell

and the heroes who fought

in defense of Liberty and

the Union.

1861-1865

( Right Side )

“Liberty and Union

now and forever

one and inseparable.”

( Back Side )

“The Union it must

and shall be preserved.”

( Left Side )

“That government of the ...

McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas

Original unit in complex forming one of the great observatory centers of the world. Built in the 1930s under terms of legacy from William Johnson McDonald (1844-1926), a Paris (Texas) banker interested in the stars. A well-educated man, McDonald lived ...

The Mortar Battery

Named Battery Meigs, these two pits contained eight large 12-inch mortars. Each huge mortar was capable of hurling a 700-pound projectile in a high arc. The simultaneous firing of all eight would insure a clustered group of shells falling on ...

The Making of America's Mountain

The granite that make up Pikes Peak was once molten (or liquid) rock. It slowly cooled and hardened miles beneath the earth’s surface, giving the crystals time to grow. Over the last 500 million years several tectonic plates (the earth’s ...

The Call Family Residence

1878 - 1972

George Washington Call (1829-1907) and his Chilean wife, Mercedes Leiva (1850-1933), bought 2,500 acres including Fort Ross in 1873. While maintaining a house in San Francisco, the family developed a dairy ranch and expanded the transport of local ...