Travel along the Freedom Trail in Monmouth Junction and learn the Revolutionary history of South Brunswick Township. Learn how the likes of George Washington, Aaron Burr, William Lee, and other patriots navigated through the South Ward in the fight for independence. Can you find all 6 markers? Click here to read the article about the Markers in TAPinto Click here to read the article … [Read more...]

George Washington and the Continental Army used three roads in South Brunswick Township (aka—South Ward) while making their way to the Battle of Monmouth. They arrived in Kingston on June 24, 1778, by using a short stretch of Route 27 (aka—The King’s Highway or The Upper Road). The next day, leaving their tents behind and traveling light, they marched along Ridge Road, which was the drier … [Read more...]

On the night of January 3, 1777, Captain John Stryker led a Company of twenty Somerset County Militia Troop of Horse against two hundred British Regulars and wagoners at Ten-Mile-Run along the King’s Highway (Rte. 27). A number of General Cornwallis’s baggage wagons had broken down here. Under the cover of darkness, Stryker’s men dismounted, spread out to form a semi-circle in order to trick … [Read more...]

At the “halfway” point between Philadelphia and New York, a wooden bridge over the Millstone River was constructed in 1705. A second bridge replaced the first in 1738. It was made of stone with wooden planking. On January 3, 1777, George Washington and his Continentals crossed over the bridge after their victory at Princeton. Upon reaching high ground, the Commander-in-Chief ordered Captain … [Read more...]

After defeating the British at Princeton on January 3, 1777, George Washington marched his exhausted army north to Kingston, New Jersey. From a vantage point on the road above the bridge across the Millstone River, near the Presbyterian Church, the Commander-in-Chief and his top officers— Nathanael Greene, John Sullivan, Arthur St. Clair, Henry Knox, John Cadwalader, Thomas Mifflin, and Joseph … [Read more...]

On December 1, 1776, General George Washington ordered his remaining soldiers to abandon New Brunswick and continue retreating south on the King’s Highway (Rte. 27). Enemy forces had arrived on the far bank of the Raritan River and were preparing to cross. A rear guard of artillery was left behind to delay the enemy's crossing and allow the American military to distance itself from British and … [Read more...]

Newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, George Washington, passed through what is now South Brunswick Township (formerly the South Ward) on June 23, 1775. He and his entourage, which included Charles Lee, Thomas Mifflin, Philip Schuyler, Joseph Reed, and William Lee, were headed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to take command of American forces gathering there. A number of … [Read more...]