Van Horne's Grist Mill Site
Grand Ave., near the corner of Lakeview Ave.
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The sign reads:
"Approximately 100 yards to the west once stood Van Horne's Grist Mill as located on Robert Erskine's Map and mentioned in Thomas Paine's 'Crisis' paper. One detachment of the patriot garrison retreating from Fort Lee, left the main body and passed the grist mill on a direct route to Hackensack Nov. 20, 1776." [1]

The passage referred to in Thomas Paine's The Crisis is, "Our first object was to secure the bridge over the Hackensack, which laid up the river between the enemy and us, about six miles from us, and three from them. General Washington arrived in about three-quarters of an hour, and marched at the head of the troops towards the bridge, which place I expected we should have a brush for; however, they did not choose to dispute it with us, and the greatest part of our troops went over the bridge, the rest over the ferry, except some which passed at a mill on a small creek, between the bridge and the ferry, and made their way through some marshy grounds up to the town of Hackensack, and there passed the river."[2]

Dutch Reformed Church of the English Neighborhood Site
Hillside Ave. and Grand Ave.
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The plaque reads:
'Site of the Dutch Reformed Church of the English Neighborhood built in 1768-9, and dedicated in 1770, with Dominie Garrett Lydecker its first minister. Used as a guardhouse and hospital at various times during the Revolution. Torn down in 1792, some of the timbers and stone used in construction of the succeeding edifice in Ridgefield". [3]

See the Ridgefield page for information and pictures of the church at the site it was moved to.

Leonia Retreat Route Sign
Fort Lee Rd. and Oratam Ter.
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The sign reads:
"In the early morning of Nov 20, 1776 after evacuating Fort Lee by order of General Washington, the Continental troops under General Green came down this road on their march to Trenton." [4]

General Washington Retreat Monument
181 Fort Lee Rd.
In front of the Presbyterian Church
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Below the relief sculpture, the text reads:
"On November 20 1776 General George Washington and a part of the Continental Army on their march from Fort Lee to Trenton passed this way.
Erected July 4, 1916." The relief was sculpted by Mahonri Young. [5]

Lafayette Encampment
Fort Lee Rd. - Across from the library at 227 Fort Lee Rd.
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The sign reads:
"Immediately south was located for a period in the early days of September 1780, the encampment of the left wing and the "Light" troops of the Continental Army under Marquis de Lafayette." [6]