Belvidere

Belvidere is a New Jersey historical marker in Warren County.

Marker is on Greenwich Street 0.1 miles north of 5th Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Major Robert Hoops had a store and mill here in the 1770's. "Mercer" became Belvidere in 1791. It became a river trade center in the 1800's and finally the county seat in 1825.

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1755 · North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville, improved with the back settlements of… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1776 · New England. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1777 · The province of New Jersey, divided into east and west, commonly called the Jerseys (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1782 · Carte de la Pensylvanie et du Nouveau Jersey (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1797 · New Jersey (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Carte de la Pensylvanie et du Nouveau Jersey, 1782, covering the location of Belvidere, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Carte de la Pensylvanie et du Nouveau Jersey, 1782, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Belvidere

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