Last updated: November 27, 2022
Place
New Jersey Brigade - Hut Ruins
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Quick Facts
Location:
Jockey Hollow
Significance:
Historic site
The men of the New Jersey Brigade arrived last to the Continental Army's winter encampment site. Their camp site, on a far hill away from the other units and furthest from headquarters in Morristown, thus seems less than ideal. However there are some advantages. Check a map, consider the needs of a soldier, and guess for yourself what might have been appealing about this site.
Today, the hut sites show little evidence of several hundred men building cabins from fallen trees to spend a dreadful winter in while staving off boredom, starvation, and the uncertainty of a war that had no end in sight. However, the stones forming the pathways here may well be the same stones used in those huts centuries ago.
Today, the hut sites show little evidence of several hundred men building cabins from fallen trees to spend a dreadful winter in while staving off boredom, starvation, and the uncertainty of a war that had no end in sight. However, the stones forming the pathways here may well be the same stones used in those huts centuries ago.