New Jersey
Three historic landmarks in New Jersey, across three eras of American history. Start with Thomas Edison National Historical Park, Princeton Battlefield and Sandy Hook Lighthouse.
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Pictured Thomas Edison National Historical Park
Jim.henderson · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Landmarks in New Jersey
- Gilded Age
Thomas Edison National Historical Park
West Orange, NJ
The industrial-scale laboratory where roughly half of Edison's 1,093 patents were born, including the world's first motion picture studio, a rotating tar-paper shed that helped invent the movies.
Revolutionary WarPrinceton Battlefield
Princeton, NJ
The battle where Washington personally rode into British musket fire to rally his wavering troops, capping the 'Ten Crucial Days' campaign that turned the Revolution's momentum after a string of American defeats.
Colonial AmericaSandy Hook Lighthouse
Highlands, NJ
The oldest continuously operating lighthouse in the United States, built seven years before the Revolution to guide ships into New York Harbor, has kept its light burning through a war fought over it and two and a half centuries of shifting coastline.
