Washington Valley Park/CR history lesson

[Patrick]

https://donsnotes.com/middlebrook-encampment/mcbrides-rock.html

Say hello to Herb if you see him.

 

[thegock]

Good guy, Herb. Went to his July 4 party last year. Free dogs, burgers and training beverages. IJDGABTT

 

[stilluf]

very cool history. Hard to appreciate the view that this position gave to Washington and his troops because of the current tree cover, both on the heights and down below. Easy to spot a blob of red coats marching when the trees are all cut down and its just green fields between there and New Brunswick.

 

[Juggernaut]

Good stuff!

 

[Dingo]

Good stuff! Last 4th Herb invited our crew over to visit, great guy. He loves us mtbr's.

 

[Jrzjoe]

Cool. Is it legal to bring a metal detector out there? I met a guy wit one at hartshorne a few years ago who said he found lead bar for melting and making musket and a few English uniform buttons. He said when the British were in retreat they crossed those hills to sandy hook.

 

[rick81721]

Cool. Is it legal to bring a metal detector out there? I met a guy wit one at hartshorne a few years ago who said he found lead bar for melting and making musket and a few English uniform buttons. He said when the British were in retreat they crossed those hills to sandy hook.

Nothing in somerset county park rules that says you can't. NJ state parks it's allowed with a permit. Interestingly, their rules under smoking are very specific - no TOBACCO may be smoked at any time. The guy who wrote the article says he found "a borken [sic] piece of a square cobalt blue glass bottle" i.e. some kids' beer bottles

 

[Jrzjoe]

Well, maybe a nice Saturday for me and my kid. We’ll be sure not to smoke.
Cool article. I really love this kind of stuff.

 

[pooriggy]

Yeah, I noticed they cleared that section of McBrides Rock several years ago. It was tangled up with Vines and downed trees. At the time I didn't know of the significance of the rock, I just thought it was a cool bluff. We usually hang there and wait for Dave Taylor after we drop him on Thursday night ride.

 

[qclabrat]

Good stuff! Last 4th Herb invited our crew over to visit, great guy. He loves us mtbr's.

That's good to know, I ride by often just to have a look around, but never ran into Herb. Will be sure to say hello

 

[Patrick]

Nothing in somerset county park rules that says you can't. NJ state parks it's allowed with a permit. Interestingly, their rules under smoking are very specific - no TOBACCO may be smoked at any time. The guy who wrote the article says he found "a borken [sic] piece of a square cobalt blue glass bottle" i.e. some kids' beer bottles

Come on now, the guys name is Herb......he ain't growing tobacco.

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Saratoga Springs Water.

 

[w_b]

looks round ^^^

 

[Patrick]

looks round ^^^

damn those old blue bottles with the flat sides....

 

[Patrick]

This marker is up on blue -

Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail (U.S. National Park Service)

In 1781, General Rochambeau’s French Army joined forces with General Washington’s Continental Army to fight the British Army in Yorktown, Virginia. With the French Navy in support, the allied armies moved hundreds of miles to become the largest troop movement of the American Revolution. The...

www.nps.gov

The NJ section of Rochambeau's route through CR

NJ Washington Rochambeau NHT_corridor 2 - Google My Maps

NJ Washington Rochambeau NHT_corridor 2

www.google.com

 

[Carson]

That's the last thing good the French have done!!