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REVOLUTIONARY WAR SITES IN MAHWAH, NEW JERSEY

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CONTINENTAL SOLDIERS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
Ramapo Valley Road

Ramapo Valley Road
Ramapo Valley Road

Continental Soldiers Memorial Highway
Ramapo Valley Rd.
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Ramapo Valley Road has several signs marking it as a road used by General Washington's troops.  There are signs of the type shown above, as well as a Bergen County Historical Society Marker (shown below), which reads:
"Ramapo Valley Road - First and Indian path then an important road during the period of colonial settlement. Washington's army used this road in July of 1777, and at many other times during the Revolution. This is one of America's oldest roads. It was an important link between New England and the South." [1]

Continental Soldiers Memorial Highway
Mahwah New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
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HOPPER GRISTMILL SITE
Ramapo Valley Road
Ramapo Valley Road

Hopper Gristmill Site
156 Ramapo Valley Rd.
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The historic marker reads:
"Built as a gristmill about 1760 by Lambartus Laroe and sold to Thomas Boggs in 1764, it had two pair of millstones. Boggs also ran a tavern in his nearby home. Owned by David Baldwin during the Revolution, the mill ground grain for American troops. Purchased after the war by Garret W. Hopper who added a sawmill. In 1832 he willed it to son William G. Hopper, a N.J. State Legislator. It operated as a mill until it burned in the late 1870's." [2]

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RAMAPO VALLEY ROAD BRIDGE
Ramapo Valley Road
Ramapo Valley Road

Ramapo Valley Road Bridge
Ramapo Valley Rd. at Brakeshoe Pl.
Map / Directions to Ramapo Valley Road Bridge
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The historic marker at the bridge reads:
"On August 25, 1781 during the historic 600-mile march to what was the Revolutionary War's decisive Battle of Yorktown, General Rochambeau's army was forced to ford this river because the bridge that was here was in poor shape. The bridge of today was built in 2010." [3]

Sources:

1. ^ Bergen County Historical Society sign.

2. ^ Historic Sign at the Hopper Gristmill site, cosponsored by the Mahwah Historical Society, and the Historic Sites Committee Township of Mahwah

3. ^ Historic Sign at the Ramapo Valley Bridge, dedicated in 2010 by the County of Bergen

Bergen County Revolutionary War Sites

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