Doorway façade from the Baxter Terrace Housing Project, Newark, New Jersey

With the population of urban areas swelling through the first half of the 20^th century, middle and low-income families had trouble finding adequate housing. Only with the 1937 passage of the Wagner-Steagall Housing Act, did the federal government accelerate and ...

Bethel AME Church, Greenwich New Jersey

The small, concrete masonry church known as Bethel AME Church is as a rare, surviving African American institution associated with multiple participants in the Underground Railroad. Located in the heart of the black community of Springtown in Greenwich Township, ...

Layton, New Jersey

Layton, once known as Laytons, was originally named Centreville. This village was settled by John Layton in the early 1800's. The first business here was owned by blacksmith Simeon Fisher, followed by Abraham Bell who established a carpenter's shop and ...

Empty Sky: New Jersey

September 11th Memorial

On the morning of

September 11, 2001, with the skies

so clear that the Twin Towers

across the river appeared to be

within reach, the very essence

of what our country stands for -

freedom, tolerance, and the

pursuit of happiness – was attacked.

This memorial ...

The Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) Terminal

Emigrant (Immigrant) Waiting Room

After passing the Statue of Liberty and being processed at Ellis Island, where did the new Americans go?

Once declared “clearly and beyond a doubt, entitled to land” almost two-thirds of the immigrants processed at Ellis ...

New Jersey Building

New Jersey Building

at Centennial

Exposition of 1876

was re-erected and

stood on this site

from 1877 until

about 1900

Marker is on Kings Highway (New Jersey Route 41), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

New Jersey Brigade

Continental Army

Erected by

The State of New Jersey

upon the site occupied by the

New Jersey Brigade

Infantry – Line – Continental Army

Brigadier General William Maxwell

First Regiment Col. Mathias Ogden

Second Regiment Col. Israel Shreve

Third Regiment Col. Elias Dayton

Fourth Regiment Col. Ephraim Martin

December 19 1777 ...

Ralston New Jersey

First settled as a hamlet called Roxiticus.

The stone mill was built in 1732 for John Logan. The mansion house and store about 1780 for John Ralston.

Inscribed by the Ralston Historical Association - Custodian of the store building since 1941.

Marker ...

Major General Daniel Morgan - New Jersey

Commander of the Famed Morgan Rifle Corps

Born in this Village of New Hampton, Lebanon

Township, NJ in 1736.

Died in Winchester, VA July 6, 1802.

Military Service

French and Indian War

Revolutionary War

Battle of Quebec, Canada Captured 1775

First New Jersey Cavalry

(Front or North Face):Maj. Myron H. Beaumont.

1st Brigade,

2d Cavalry Division

———

July 3, 1863.

———

Erected by the

State of New Jersey

1888

(Left or West Face):Organized in

September 1861,

and served

to the end of

the war.

Participated in

97 engagements

———

Losses

Killed in action 79.

Died of wounds Etc.

170, Died, prisoners

of war, 34. Missing,

supposed ...