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Old "King's Highway"

Old "King's Highway" is a New Jersey historical marker in Union County, dedicated 1964.

On State Highway 24 (Springfield Ave) in Springfield · location approximate

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Connected Neward with the river port of Easton. Section to Morristown became the Newark and Morris Turnpike in 1804.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1797 · New Jersey (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1807 · Northern Part of New Jersey, shewing the the American and British Armies after crossing… (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1811 · Map Of The Country Thirty Miles Round the City of New York. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · New Jersey (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1818 · New Jersey (1818) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Northern Part of New Jersey, shewing the the American and British Armies after crossing…, 1807, covering the location of Old "King's Highway", with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Northern Part of New Jersey, shewing the the American and British Armies after crossing…, 1807, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Old "King's Highway"

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