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REVOLUTIONARY WAR SITES IN HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY

Haddonfield Revolutionary War Sites
INDIAN KING TAVERN
Haddonfield Indian King Tavern Museum
Indian King Tavern Indian King Tavern Museum
Indian King Tavern Museum Haddonfield NJ - Indian King Tavern
Revolutionary War Sites in Haddonfield

Indian King Tavern Museum
233 Kings Highway
(856)429-6792
Map / Directions to the Indian King Tavern
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Hours:
Thursday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 12 noon
                                      1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

"Within this building, then a tavern-house, the Council of Safety for New Jersey was organized March 18, 1777. Herein also, in September of the same year the legislature unanimously resolved that thereafter the word "State" should be substituted for "Colony" in all public writs and commissions." [1]

Haddonfield in the Revolutionary War
256 / 258 Kings Highway East
Haddonfield, New Jersey
Haddonfield, New Jersey

256/ 258 Kings Highway
Across from the Indian King Tavern
This building now is used as office by attorneys and a doctor
Map / Directions to the 256 / 258 Kings Highway East
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Across the street from the Indian King Tavern is this building, now used as office space, has a plaque which reads:
"This house, built in colonial times was used during the Revolutionary War as a guard house for persons suspected of aiding the British cause and brought for trial before The Council of Safety, then meeting in the Indian King." [2]

Historic Sites in Haddonfield, New Jersey
GREENFIELD HALL
Greenfield Hall
Haddonfield, New Jersey

Greenfield Hall
Now the headquarters of the Haddonfield Historical Society
343 King's Highway East

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(856)429-7375

Map / Directions to Greenfield Hall
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Hours:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday:  1-4 p.m.
1st Sunday of the Month: 1-3 p.m.
or by appointment.
Closed August and major holidays

 

 

   
Haddonfield, New Jersey
"Historic Haddonfield - October 21, 1777 - Colonel von Donop camped here before the Battle of Red Bank. General Wayne and Colonel Ellis foraged nearby in February 1778, but left on the approach of Major Simcoe. June 1778, the British under Clinton and Knyphausen camped here en route to Monmouth." [3]

Sources:

1. ^ Plaque on the Indian King Tavern Museum

2. ^ Tablet erected by the Haddonfield Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1931

3.  ^ The New Jersey Commission on Historic Sites

Haddonfield NJ Historic Sites

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