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The Trentoniana Local History and Genealogy Collection is a library-based special collection of historic memorabilia in Trenton, New Jersey.Held by the Trenton Free Public Library Board of Trustees, the collection contains books, manuscripts, ephemera, visual and audio media, and artifacts, with particular focus on local history and genealogical materials.
Trenton Historical Society, 'A History of Trenton,' 1679-1929: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of a Notable Town with Links in Four Centuries. Princeton University Press, 1929. Trenton Newspapers, 1778-1932. Trenton, Trenton Times, 1932; Bound volumes on file in the New Jersey State Library and the Trenton Free Public Library.
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Trenton, New Jersey" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Adams capitulated and departed Quincy for Trenton with a small staff, though First Lady Abigail Adams remained in Massachusetts. [4] Adams and his entourage entered Trenton on 10 October 1799. [4] [8] His arrival was celebrated with a fireworks display. [4] [8]
Gen. Philemon Dickinson House is located in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.. The original frame house was built by the Rutherford family about 1760. General Philemon Dickinson (1739-1809) bought it in July 1776, as a rural retreat along the Delaware River, and named it "The Herm
The Douglass House is a historic house at the corner of Front and Montgomery Streets in the Mill Hill neighborhood of the city Trenton in Mercer County, New Jersey.It served as George Washington's headquarters prior to the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777. [3]
The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776, a painting by John Trumbull The Old Barracks in Trenton, New Jersey. The earliest known inhabitants of the area that is today Trenton were the Lenape Native Americans, [38] specifically the Axion band who were the largest tribe on the Delaware River in the mid-17th century.
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey.After General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton the previous night, Washington led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian auxiliaries garrisoned at Trenton.