
Historic sites throughout Warren County are joining together to present a self-guided county-wide tour, the Explore Warren History Trail. To be held on the weekend of November 6-7, 2021, the event will feature family activities at each location.
Head out for a weekend of fun and discovery as each stop along the trail offers something different and exciting for the whole family. Start at any site and pick up your map and guide. Mark your calendar, and read more about each site for more information!
As it approaches its bicentennial in 2024-2025, Warren County will celebrate a remarkable history as well as its reputation for the cleanest waterways and richest farmland in New Jersey. Stemming from wilderness times well before the county’s official formation through 1824 legislation, the area’s earliest settlements were in Greenwich, Oxford Furnace, and Pahaquarry. Situated at the confluence of the Delaware and Musconetcong Rivers, Greenwich was the gateway for the northward migration of Quaker, German, and Scots-Irish settlers landing at Philadelphia. Oxford Furnace’s first pioneers arrived in 1726, but real growth followed the building of the furnace in 1741, creating Warren County’s first hub of commercial activity and population growth. In 1732, Abraham Van Campen built a mill in what became the tiny village of Calno in Pahaquarry, the southernmost settlement in a chain of Dutch villages extending down the Minisink Valley from Esopus (now Kingston), New York. Warren County’s agricultural heritage, in combination with eighteenth and nineteenth century innovations in transportation and industry, are important chapters in the rural American tradition.
Locations on the inaugural Explore Warren History Trail are:
Shippen Manor, Oxford (Open for visitors only on Sunday, Nov. 7, from 12-4pm.)
Jim and Mary Lee Museum at Plane 9 West, Stewartsville, Greenwich Township
Van Nest - Hoff - Vannatta Farm, Harmony Township
Ramsaysburg Homestead, Delaware, Knowlton Township
Roseberry-Gess House, Phillipsburg
Asbury Mill, Asbury, Franklin Township
Rutherfurd Hall, Allamuchy Township
Moravian Village of Hope, Hope Township
Vass Farmstead, Hardwick Township
Blairstown village historic district, Blairstown Township
Shimer Mansion, Pohatcong Township