Somerset County - Bound Brook, South Bound Brook and Bridgewater - 242nd Commemoration of the Battle of Bound Brook
Battle of Bound Brook events, April 13-14
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Somerset County - South Bound Brook - Battle of Bound Brook
Saturday - Sunday, April 13 - 14 - South Bound Brook, Somerset County Battle of Bound Brook Join us for an exciting and historic weekend! This two-day program explores the American Revolutionary War during the time-frame of the Battle of Bound Brook and the foraging wars of 1777. Learn about and experience this important period in New Jersey’s and America’s history. Weekend activities include: Saturday: * 10:30 am: First street battle reenactment at the Old Stone Arch Bridge in Bound Brook (near the Queens Bridge). The Loyalist troops attack and push the Patriot Forces in a Retreat up Bolmer Avenue to the cemetery. * 11:30 - 11:45 am: Ceremony at Old Presbyterian Graveyard next to Bound Brook Memorial Library, 402 E. High Street, Bound Brook, NJ . * 11:45 am - 1:00 pm: Lunch for Soldiers on Hamilton Street, Bound Brook – with American, British and Hessian Soldiers of the American Revolution! * 1:30 - 2:30 pm: Second street bat...
Somerset County - Manville - Murder on the Millstone- Somerset County, the Raritan Valley and Manville-Crossroads of the Revoution-1777
Saturday, December 1 -- Somerset County Murder on the Millstone- Somerset County, the Raritan Valley and Manville-Crossroads of the Revoution-1777 1:00 PM Manville Library, 101 South 10 Ave, Manville, NJ Historian Robert Mayers, author of Revolutionary New Jersey-Forgotten Towns and Crossroads of the American Revolution, will relate the critical events in the Somerset County area during the Revolutionary War. The fierce battles of Millstone, Bound Brook and the Short Hills (Plainfield, Scotch Plains), the bloody forage wars in the Raritan Valley when ravenous Redcoats ravaged the countryside and created a reign of terror, the Middlebrook encampments that saved America (Bridgewater and Martinsville), and the entire Continental Army swept through central Jersey on the way to Yorktown. This action all swirled around what is now the Borough of Manville. Most of these places are ...