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]
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]
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]
