Events
Events
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What We Sang Together Community Songs from Revolutionary-Era America
Historic Trenton Friends Meeting House 142 East Hanover St., Trenton, New Jersey, United StatesJoin acappella chorus Hopewell Hall to hear songs people might have sung together in the American colonies. Like today, people sang together in many settings and for diverse reasons: at…
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King George and the March of Folly
Trenton Masonic Temple 100 Barrack Street, Trenton, New Jersey, United StatesLiterature, media and festivals (including Patriots Week) tend to focus on the triumph of the patriots on our side of the Atlantic. But what was going on in London? Leaders…
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“Rediscovering British Surveyor and Mapmaker John Hills”
Trenton Free Public Library 120 Academy Street, Trenton, New Jersey, United StatesThe development of cartography in the 18th century was vital to how citizens of North America came to understand their identities within their communities. This presentation will focus on the…
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Downtown Trenton Revolutionary Pub Crawl
Checkers 14 South Warren Street 14 South Warren Street, Trenton, New Jersey, United StatesJoin a period pub crawl of downtown Trenton watering holes and restaurants. Attendees must mention the PASSCODE: MERCER, to receive your wristbands and ticket at the door for a special…
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Traversing the Ten Crucial Days Bus Tour
Washington Crossing Historic Park, Pennsylvania 1112 River Rd, Washington Crossing, PA, United StatesSpend a day retracing the December 25 crossing of the Delaware and the American and British military engagements at Trenton, Princeton and areas in-between. On the Traversing the Ten Crucial Days…
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Ten Crucial Day Bus Tour
Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States@ – This all-day bus tour through Washington Crossing, Trenton, and Princeton explores the social, topographical, and military aspects of the campaigns of the Ten Crucial Days, December 25, 1776…
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“Trenton’s Historic Legacy: The Old Barracks and the Trenton Battle Monument”
Riverview Cemetery 870 Centre Street, Trenton, NJ, United StatesA presentation highlighting the early efforts to save the Old Barracks by the city’s Daughters of the American Revolution chapter and the work of the Trenton Battle Monument Association in…
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Musket Demonstration at the Old Barracks Museum
Old Barracks Museum,101 Barrack St, Trenton, NJ 08608, USA 2 Barrack St, United StatesSoldiers of the NJ Line of the Continental Army will drill and fire their muskets on the Parade ground of the Old Barracks Museum. Included in regular cost of admission.
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Signs of the Times
Mill Hill Park (Corner of Broad & Front Streets) 165 E. Front Street, Trenton, New Jersey, United States@ – Join Richard Hunter on a walking tour from Mill Hill park to Petty’s Run and explore the signs that detail the downtown neighborhood’s rich history. Dr.…
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‘They Were Good Soldiers’: African–Americans Serving in the Continental Army, 1775-1783
Old Barracks Museum,101 Barrack St, Trenton, NJ 08608, USA 2 Barrack St, United StatesThe role of African-Americans, most free but some enslaved, in the regiments of the Continental Army is not well-known; neither is the fact that relatively large numbers served in southern regiments and…