Events
Events
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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…
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Musket Demonstration
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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Alexander Hamilton and the 24 Cannons at the Battle of Trenton
Trenton City Museum in Ellarslie Manson 299 Parkside Ave, Trenton, NJ, United States@ – This tabletop talk will follow the movements of all 24 of the cannons on the streets of Trenton during the Battle of Trenton and demonstrate why…
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Lecture: Elias Boudinot IV: The Continental Army’s First Commissary General of Prisoners
Trenton Free Public Library 120 Academy Street, Trenton, New Jersey, United StatesAfter the successful invasion of NYC and surrounding areas by the British during 1776 and the thousands of American prisoners taken, George Washington called upon Congress to set up a…
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