Washington's Crossing Park(NJ)

 

     Saturday, June 4, 2022: After browsing and shopping at the West Windsor Farmers’ Market, I headed farther north in Mercer County, New Jersey, to Washington’s Crossing State Park, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville (609-737-0623). Inside the Visitor Center Museum I saw a film that lasted around a half hour about “Ten Crucial Days” or the events that happened to George Washington and his troops from the 25th of December, 1776, to the 3rd of January, 1777. During that time, Washington and his army crossed the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to NJ, marched to Trenton, fought the first Battle of Trenton against the Hessians, then a Second Battle of Trenton before marching to Princeton, and finally, the Continental troops won the Battle of Princeton. After seeing the film, I looked through one area of the museum that included items, pictures, and texts about those “Ten Crucial Days.” Another exhibit area showed its share of pictures, texts, and items about NJ’s role in both the Seven Year War or the French and Indian War (1756-’63) and the American Revolutionary War (1775-’83). Afterward, in another part of the state park, the 1700s Johnson Ferry House has been furnished to look the way it did in Washington’s day. It also proved to be an interesting subject to photograph! The rest of the park provided a nature center, open air theater, and plenty of hiking trails, as well as areas for picnicking, horseback riding, bicycling, and so forth in some very colorful wooded areas.