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.
    
Red Bank Battlefield - Fort Mercer.