Historical Marker

Trinity Church

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street and Rector Street, on the left when traveling south on Broad Street. · Newark · Essex

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First church on site in 1746. Present edifice, built in 1809, retains original tower. Became a cathedral of the Diocese in 1944.

AddressMarker is at the intersection of Broad Street and Rector Street, on the left when traveling south on Broad Street.

CityNewark

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.