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The museum has three exhibit rooms and a sales area. A video production, Morristown: Where America Survived (New Jersey Network, 2009) is shown. The Ford Mansion is shown only by guided tour, which begins in the museum. The New Jersey Brigade Encampment Site is located south of Jockey Hollow in Bernardsville in Somerset County.
All were disbanded at the end of the war. Infantry units which remained in the British Isles during the war included the 2nd Foot (Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)), the 11th Foot (Devonshires), the 12th Foot (Suffolk), the 25th Foot (King's Own Scottish Borderers) at Sussex, the 32nd Foot at Cornwall, the 36th Foot at Herefordshire, the ...
The Continental army encamped three years in New Jersey, in the winters of 1777 at Morristown, 1778–79 at Middlebrook (near Bound Brook), and in 1780 again at Morristown. Large parts of the Continental forces wintered in other years in NJ. Raids from British-held New York City from across the Hudson into New Jersey happened very frequently.
During the Revolutionary War, Henry Wick possessed the largest portion of this area—his farm comprised 1400 acres of timber and open field.The Wick farm and his neighbors' property were considered the ideal location for a winter camp due to the distance from British forces in New York and the amount of timber needed for shelter and firewood for a large army, and the availability of houses ...
British Loyalist, New Jersey Volunteers reenactors, in front of the New York Historical Society, in New York City. The New Jersey Volunteers, also known as Jersey Volunteers, "Skinners", Skinner's Corps, and Skinner's Greens (due to their green wool uniform coats), were a British provincial military unit of Loyalists, raised for service by Cortlandt Skinner, during the American Revolutionary War.
The Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area (XRDS) is a federally designated National Heritage Area encompassing portions of 14 counties in New Jersey that were the scene of significant actions in the American Revolutionary War in late 1776 through 1778. [1]
Pages in category "American Revolutionary War museums in New Jersey" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Morristown (/ ˈ m ɒr ɪ s t aʊ n /) is a town in and the county seat of Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [20] Morristown has been called "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the war for independence from Great Britain.