Revolutionary War Fans - skirmish coming!

If you are a fan of the history of the Revolutionary War, you won't want to miss the Skirmish in Haddonfield on June 9th. Many people are unaware that New Jersey is known as the cockpit of the Revolution because more than 700 skirmishes and battles took place here as the armies stuggled back and forth over the East coast. South Jersey was the bread basket of the colonies, so many battles were fought here, the most famous of which was the battle for access to the Delaware River, THE BATTLE OF RED BANK. If you haven't visited it, you must go to beautiful Red Bank Battlefield in National Park, right off 295m or 139m and down Hessian Avenue from Woodbury, NJ. The historic Whitall House is often open for tours.

South of us in the Alloways Creek area is the historic Hancock House site of the infamous Hancock Massacre when British sympathizers sneaked up on sleeping Revolutionary miliatia men in the upstairs of Hancock Tavern and slaughtered them. There was nearby, the battle of Quinton's Bridge, and further south in Greenwich, the site of a historic tea burning! Yes that's right, New Jersey also had a tea party when smugglers tried to get tea into New Jersey after the ban on British tea, but their cargo was confiscated and burned in the town square. The ship had tried to sneak in on the Cohansey River.

SOON TO ARRIVE - In Camden, NJ, a new Museum of the Revolution will be here within the next couple of years, I believe the date is still 2025. You can find more information on that by visiting the Camden County Historcal Society Museum page, and by the way, the new issue of their fantastic magazine is available for FREE! It is filled with wonderful historic events and places and if you like history, you will love this magazine, so drop on over and pick up a few copies for yourself and your friends!

Happy Trails history friends! Jo Ann wrightj45@yahoo.com