Abraham D. Blauvelt Homestead

The house and the kitchen wing were built about 1801 by Abraham D. Blauvelt who farmed the land. It came into possession of his niece, Catherine Blauvelt, wife of Richard J. Blauvelt, and remained in the family until 1891. In ...

Walter Parcells Homestead

In 1795 Walter Parcells, a mason, erected this house of local stone on 34 acres of land on what was then known as Closter New Road. Built in the Federal style, it is 1½ stories high with a gambrel style ...

Frazee Homestead

Circa 1750

“Frazee Homestead”

British General Cornwallis stopped to ask for bread during the battle of Short Hills, June 26, 1777, and was marked by Betty Frazee’s famous statement “I give you this in fear, not in love.”

Marker is on Raritan Road ...

Boothe Homestead

This 1820’s home was built over the original foundation of the 1683 house and has been altered four times since then. David and Stephen Boothe’s renovations of 1913 added stained glass windows, four safes in the walls, and several “puzzle” ...

Boothe Homestead

Listed on the

National Register of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

May 1, 1985

This Estate Owned by the Boothe Family

For Many Generations Was Willed

To the Town of Stratford by

David ...

The Gault Homestead

Included as part of a 320-acre land grant awarded to J.P. Whelin in payment for his service to the Republic of Texas Army, this property has had a long and varied history. Soon after he was granted the land, Whelin ...

Old I.V. Davis Homestead

On land granted by Mexico in 1835, just before Texas Revolution, this house was built in 1875. Owner Isaac Van Zandt Davis (1843-1897) worked in the General Land Office. Greek revival style home has 22” thick walls of stone quarried ...

Typical Sod House Homesteader

Edgar I. Brown, born in 1854, came here with wife, Alice, and son, Charles, to homestead in the Badlands when he was 55. Their first and only home was a side hill, sod wall, dirt roofed house. About it they ...

Captain Joshua Huddy's Homestead

Site of the home of Revolutionary Hero Captain Joshua Huddy and his wife, the Widow Hart. In 1780, a party of Tories set fire to the home.

Marker is at the intersection of Heyers Mill Road and County Road 537, on ...

Jacobus Demarest Homestead

The earliest part of this house, one of the oldest in the county, was built on land purchased in 1677 by David Demarest, Sr., founder of the Huguenot Colony in Bergen County. His grandson Jacobus, born 1681, lived here until ...