The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Compa

On this site in 1891, Thomas Edison developed an enormous complex of mines, crushers, separators, and subsidiary buildings that came to be known as “Edison” or, more properly, “The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Company.” This company ...

First Moorestown, New Jersey Friends Meeting House

The granite stone behind this plaque marks the location of the first Friends Meeting House. Built of logs in 1700. It was the earliest building for worship in Moorestown.

In 1720, it burned and was replaced with a large stone building ...

13th New Jersey Infantry

September 17, 1862

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Engaged in this position, facing west, from 11.20 a.m. to about 12 noon.

Marker is on Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling west.

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13th New Jersey Infantry

September 17, 1862

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Center of regiment at 10.20 a.m. facing west. Part of the right wing was across the road.

Marker is at the intersection of Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike and Cornfield Avenue, on the right ...

New Jersey State Monument

(Each unit is detailed in a separate tablet):

Thirteenth New Jersey Infantry

Colonel Ezra A. Carman, Comanding

Third Brigade, First Division

Twelfth Corps

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Here this regiment, seventeen days after leaving home, met "its Baptism of fire," September 17, 1862. The first to fall was Captain ...

Hexamar's (New Jersey) Battery

September 17, 1862

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From a position about 60 yards south of this point the battery, between 2 and 3 p.m., engaged and silenced the Confederate artillery around the Dunkard Church.

Marker is at the intersection of Smoketown Road and Mummas Lane, on ...

First New Jersey Brigade

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer’s Battery

September 17, 1862

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The Brigade arrived upon this field from Crampton's Pass about noon, and was formed for a charge upon the Confederate line just north of the Dunkard Church. The order for ...

New Jersey Korean War Memorial

Freedom is Not Free

[Following the title is a list of New Jersey veterans who died in the Korean War. See link below for a list of "those who did not return."]

Marker is at the intersection of Atlantic City Boardwalk and ...

First New Jersey Brigade

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer's Battery

September 17, 1862

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This stone marks the right of the Brigade when a little after noon, it was formed to charge the woods north of the Dunkard Church. The order was countermanded and the ...

Hexamer's (New Jersey) Battery

September 17, 1862

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From 3.30 p.m. until near sunset this battery from a point about 80 yards north of this, engaged the enemy around the Piper buildings.

Marker is on Richardson Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

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