Rockingham Museum

125. Rockingham Museum · HS/HM

Laurel Avenue/Route 603
Kingston, NJ · Map D

Tel: (609) 921-8835
Hours: Call for information
Parking: Lot for cars and buses

While staying at Rockingham from August through November 1783, George Washington wrote his "farewell Orders to the army of the United States" in the second floor study. Built sometime between 1702 and 1710, the house was once known as the Berrien Mansion. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Stony Brook Garden Club has developed plans for a historically accurate colonial kitchen garden. Site also contains a stone wash house, wagon shed and a fowl house.

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126. Marker for George Washington's Route · HS

Main Street, Route 27 & Presbyterian Cemetery
Kingston, NJ · Map D

"By this route, Washington with his army retired to Morristown after his victory at Princeton, January 1777." The marker was erected by the DAR.

Sponsored by Daughters of the American Revolution, Princeton Chapter.

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Marker for George Washington's Route

Four Arch Stone Bridge

127. Four Arch Stone Bridge · HS

Main Street
Route 27
Kingston, NJ · Map D

Built in 1793 as a replacement for the one Washington had destroyed when he was eluding the enemy. The present stone bridge has a stone marker in it, "Kingston Bridge 1793 Phil. 45M-N.Y. 50M." It is the only remaining 4-arch stone bridge in central New Jersey. It overlooks the Millstone River, the dam impounding Carnegie Lake, and Kingston Mill which operated until 1940. The building previously housed a sawmill, a wool manufacturing plant, a gristmill and a flourmill.

Sponsored by Ann Suydam.

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