Essex

Speer, early landowner and Revolutionary War Captain and his family lived in this Dutch Colonial home from 1760-1929.

East Orange, NJ

In the area of "Cotton Mill Pond," where after 1812, James Mason made Calico Cloth on site of early mills and tanery.

Cornwallis's army, in pursuit of Washington's troops, in the retreat of 1776, passed through Orange, and some detachments are said to...

Glen Ridge, NJ

Cranetown, the Revolutionary name for Montclair, was named for the Crane family, at whose house Washington and Lafayette made their...

Colonial hamlet, named for the Crane family, in whose home Washington stayed in October, 1780.

Newark, NJ

Here stood the house of Dr. William Burnet, noted patriot-surgeon.

Newark, NJ

First Presbyterian Church organized in 1666, Abraham Pierson, minister.

Settles in 1666 by colonists from Connecticut.

Front of City Hall on Broad Street, NJ

New Haven Puritans, led by Robert Treat, settled here in 1666.

Built about 1710 by Plume family. Became House of Prayer Rectory, 1850.

Site of the shop of Seth Boyden, versatile inventor. Among his inventions were patent leather in 1818 and later malleable iron.

The author of "The Red Badge of Courage," Stephen Crane, was born at this site in 1871.

One of the oldest structures in Newark, built in the 18th Century, this house is a prime example of early American ingenuity in architecture

Newark, NJ

First church on site in 1746.