Resource List of Colonial
Historical Sites in New Jersey
Alpine.
Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
Blackledge-Kearney
House. Colonial house located at
the foot of the Palisades near where the British climbed up to attack Fort Lee
in 1776.
Atsion
Atsion Village
Remains of 18th
century community and gristmill.
Berkeley Heights.
Littel-Lord Farmhouse Museum.
Eighteenth and
nineteenth century farmhouse.
Bridgeton.
Swedish Farmstead.
Historic district.
Colonial, and Federal houses.
George Woodruff Indian Museum.
Bridgewater.
Middlebrook Encampment.
Washington Park Assoc.
Van Veghten House.
Early 1700 house. Somerset County Historical
Society.
Burlington.
Hoskins House. 1797-1798.
Artifacts displayed.
Friends Meeting House. 1785
Pearson-How House c.1705
St. Mary's Episcopal Church 1703
Camden.
Camden County Historical Society - Museum and
Pomona Hall.
18th
Century Georgian house.
Clark.
Dr. William Robinson Plantation and Museum.
Retored farmhouse.
Elizabeth.
Boudinot Mansion. (Boxwood Hall).
1752 house.
Belcher Ogden House.
(Private site, but
visits can be arranged).
Fairlawn.
Garretson Farm.
Bergen County
Site. Farmstead c.1750.
Dutch colonial house, carriage
house, and barn.
Fort Lee.
Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
Fort Lee Historic
Site. Revolutionary War site and
museum.
Freehold
Monmouth Battlefield. State Park.
Monmouth County Historical Association.
Museum, Library
and Archives. Houses.
Covenhoven House (1710)
Marlpit Hall (1685)
Allen House (1750)
Holmes-Hendrickson House (1754)
Greenwich.
Historic district.
Cumberland County Historical Society.
Gibbon House
(1730).
Swedish Granery.
Hackensack.
Von Steuben House.
1739 Dutch
colonial house.
Haddonfield
Indian King Tavern 1750.
State site.
Haddon Fire Co. #1 1765.
Small museum.
Haddonfield Historic District - federal houses.
John Gill House 1747.
Haddonfield Historical Society.
Hancock's Bridge.
Hancock House, 1734.
State site.
Hibernia.
Ford-Faesch House 1768.
Historical Society of the Rockaways.
Holmdel
Holmes-Hendrickson House
18th century Dutch
farmhouse
Jamesburg.
"Lakeview" Buckelew Mansion c.1690.
Madison.
Museum of Early Trades and Crafts.
Eighteenth and
nineteenth century tools.
Middletown.
Marlpit Hall.
1684-1800 Dutch
colonial building
Milltown.
Milltown Museum
c.1860 farm house.
Montclair.
Israel Crane House.
Run by Montclair
Historical Society.
Morristown.
Jockey Hollow. National Park.
Revolutionary War
Encampment Site
Wick House.
Colonial farmhouse and garden.
Ford Mansion. National Park.
1774 house.
Washington's headquarters and museum.
Mount Holly.
Old School House.
1759 school house.
Peachfield Plantation.
1725 farm house.
Run by the National Society of Colonial
Dames of America.
Burlington County Prison Museum.
John Woolman Memorial.
New Brunswick
Buccleuch Mansion, 1739.
Eighteenth century
mansion maintained by the city of New
Brunswick. Tours by the DAR.
Paramus.
Bergen Museum of Art and Science.
Exhibit on Lenape
Indians.
Park Ridge.
Wortendyke Dutch Barn.
Bergen County
site. c.1750.
Farm tools and demonstrations.
Perth Amboy.
Proprietary House, 1762.
Kearny Cottage, 1781.
Piscataway
East Jersey Old Town.
Restored and
recreated assorted buildings.
Cornelius Low House Museum, 1741. County museum.
Changing exhibits
and programs (some for schools).
Metlar House/Peter Bodine House.
Plainfield.
Drake House. Operated by the Historical Society of
Plainfield. 1745 farm house.
Port Monmouth.
Spy House Museum Complex.
Colonial house,
part of Thomas Whitlock homestead, 1663-1703.
Princeton
Drumthwacket.
Current governor's
mansion.
Morven.
1701 Stockton
house. Former governors mansion.
Princeton University
Nassau Hall, 1756
building.
Bainbridge House.
Princeton
Historical Society and museum.
Princeton Battlefield
State park and
Thomas Clark House, c.1770.
Rahway.
Rahway Historical Society.
Merchants and
Drovers Tavern. Eighteenth century
stage coach stop.
Terrill Tavern.
Now gift shop.
Ramsey.
Old Stone House Museum
c.1740 house and
inn.
Red Bank, Gloucester
County
National Park. Mary Whithall House. House
of Quakers that served as field hospital
after 1777 battle.
River Edge.
Steuben House. 1739 Dutch colonial house
confiscated during American Revolution
from Tory John Zabriskie and later given
to Baron von Steuben.
Campbell-Christie House.
Colonial house.
Demarest House.
1678 Dutch
colonial house. Moved to site from
New Milford.
Rockaway.
Ford-Faesch House.
Run by the Historical Society of the Rockaways.
Home of early iron mangnate.
Rocky Hill.
Rockingham.
1734 house used by
George Washington in 1783. Site of
his farewell address to the troops.
Roselle.
Abraham Clark House.
Replica of
farmhouse and museum.
Scotch Plains.
Cannon Ball Museum (Osborne House).
American
Revolutionary War house.
Shrewsbury
Allen House
18th century
tavern
Somers Point.
Somers Mansion, 1725.
State historic
site.
Somerset.
The Meadows. Van Wickle House. Early
18th century Dutch colonial house.
Somerville.
Old Dutch Parsonage.
1751 house.
Wallace House, 1778.
Washington's
Headquarters 1778-1779
Springfield.
Cannon Ball House (Abraham Hutchings House).
American
Revolutionary War house.
Stanhope.
Waterloo Village.
Recreated Lenape
Indian village.
Titusville.
Washington Crossing State Park.
Park and museum.
Ferry House- farm
house/tavern.
Trenton.
Old Barracks. Built during French & Indian
Wars.
William Trent House.
1719.
New Jersey State Museum.
Union.
Caldwell Parsonage.
Union Township
Historical Society Museum.
Upper Saddle River
Hopper-Goetschius House Museum
18th century
house.
Wayne.
Dey Mansion.
1740's house.
Van Riper Hopper House.
1786 Dutch
colonial farmhouse. Run by Wayne
Historical Commission.
Westfield.
Miller-Cory House
1740's house
Woodbury.
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