
Franklin Inn – East Millstone, NJ
The Franklin Inn, also known as the Van Liew Tavern, located on Amwell Road in East Millstone, was built in [...]

Old Dutch Parsonage

Van Wickle House – Somerset, NJ
Van Wickle House – Somerset, NJ
The Van Wickle house was built in 1722 by Symen Van Wickle. Symen Van Wickle’s [...]

Washington Rock – Greenbrook, NJ
The strategic location of Washington Rock made it a valuable lookout point during the American Revolution for General George Washington [...]

Van Horne House – Bridgewater, NJ
The Van Horne House was built in 1754 by Phillip Van Horne, a man who was known to entertain both [...]

Saint James Church — Edison, NJ
Saint James Church was established in 1704 and the original structure built in 1724. Considerable military activity and battles took [...]

Van Liew-Suydam House – Somerset, NJ
Holding a commanding view of the Six Mile Run Valley, the Van Liew-Suydam House sits atop a hill at the [...]

Buccleuch Mansion – New Brunswick, NJ
This Georgian mansion was constructed in 1739 by Anthony White and his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of New Jersey’s Royal [...]

Battle of Short Hills and Oak Tree Pond – Edison and Scotch Plains, NJ
The Battle of Short Hills took place on June 26th, 1777, following the Forage Wars of early 1777 and was [...]

Wallace House State Historic Site

Merchant Cornelius Low’s Raritan Landing home
Merchant Cornelius Low’s Raritan Landing home was spared by the British due to his loyalty to King George III.
The Cornelius [...]

Wyckoff-Garretson House – Somerset, NJ
The classic early Dutch Wyckoff-Garretson House was constructed in 1730 by John Wyckoff whose grandfather, Peter Claesen Wyckoff, had come [...]

Piscatawaytown Burial Ground – Edison, NJ
Nearby is a common grave of British soldiers who died in the Revolutionary War and were placed in the British [...]

Cornelius Low House – Piscataway, NJ
The Cornelius Low House/Middlesex County Museum is a historic national register home built in 1741 for Cornelius Low, a wealthy [...]

Metlar-Bodine House – Piscataway, NJ
Built in 1728 by Peter Bodine, this house is the older of two remaining buildings from the colonial port of [...]

First Middlebrook Encampment – Martinsville, NJ
In late May of 1777, Washington moved his small army of under 8,000 men from the winter encampment at Morristown [...]

Old Stone Bridge – Central Arch – Bound Brook, NJ
On April 13,1777, Lord Charles Cornwallis led 4,000 British Crown troops in an attack on a small American garrison of [...]

Hendrick Fisher House – Franklin Township, NJ
A portion of the Hendrick Fisher House may be the oldest structure in Somerset County built circa 1688 for William [...]

The Battle of Spanktown – Rahway, NJ
Throughout the war, troops traversed Rahway, which was the scene of several skirmishes. In early 1777 the Battle of Spanktown [...]