Old Barracks Museum - Trenton
101 Barrack St, Trenton, NJ 08608, USA
New Jersey, USA
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BARRACKS
EST. 1758
ENCAMPMENT
EST. 1758
BATTLEFIELD
1776
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Old Barracks Museum - Trenton.
The original 1758 stone military barracks survives as a restored museum in central Trenton. The preserved building contains furnished soldiers’ rooms, exhibition galleries, collections, and interpretive spaces, while its courtyard and surviving fabric represent one of the state’s few remaining colonial military structures.
About Old Barracks Museum - Trenton
The Old Barracks were built in 1758 to house British soldiers during the French and Indian War, after colonists complained about the forced quartering of soldiers engaged in the conflict. It was built as a U-shaped stone structure, capable of housing about 300 soldiers at a time. It was reoccupied as a winter quarters by Hessian troops in the fall of 1776.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Old Barracks Museum - Trenton
George Washington crossed the Delaware River to catch the Hessian garrison by surprise during the Battle of Trenton on the morning of December 26, 1776. Most of this battlefield is now occupied by downtown Trenton. For the remainder of that conflict it was occupied by whichever force controlled Trenton, including at various times British and American Continental Army troops. In the later stages of the war it was used as a military hospital by the Continental Army.
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