Historical Marker

Sydenham House

Marker is on Old Road to Bloomfield, on the right when traveling north. · Essex

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

AddressMarker is on Old Road to Bloomfield, on the right when traveling north.

CountyEssex

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.