Somerset County: Crossroads of the American Revolution

by Susan J. Winter and William A. Schleicher

Book Overview

Between the Watchung Mountains to the north and the Sourland Mountains to the west lies the fertile valley of the Raritan River.

Stout Dutch, Huguenot, German, Scottish, and English settlers began to cultivate family farms here as early as the 1680s. For almost a hundred years, the tramp of soldiers' feet and sounds of cannons had been unknown, but that was about to change. With its location astride two major routes between New...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073850081X
• ISBN13: 9780738500812
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"