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List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey

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This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state. The United States National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. There are 58 NHLs in New Jersey.

Key

National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark District
National Historic Site

Current NHLs in New Jersey

There are NHLs in seventeen of the twenty-one counties in the state. Mercer County has fourteen NHLs, in and around Princeton, New Jersey.

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Historic areas in the United States National Park System

National Historic Sites, National Historic Parks, National Memorials, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are often not also named NHLs per se. There are four of these in New Jersey. The National Park Service lists these three together with the NHLs in the state, These are:

Landmark name
ImageDate establishedLocationCountyDescription
Paterson Great Falls[[File:Great Falls (Passaic River).jpg100px]]PatersonPassaicA National Natural Landmark and site of mills and mill races originally developed by the Society of Useful Manufacture in late 1700s that are a Civil Engineering Landmark
url=http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island_timeline.asptitle=Ellis Island Timepublisher=Staue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundationdate=2003-01-16access-date=2010-08-15}}[[File:Ellis Island-27527.jpg100px]]Jersey CityHudsonImmigration processing depot from 1892 to 1954. A portion of Ellis Island is in New York.
Thomas Edison National Historical Park[[File:Edison-West-Orange-Laboratory TENHP-2008-05-07 5075261.jpg100px]]West OrangeEssexInventor Thomas Alva Edison's laboratory and residence, Glenmont
Morristown National Historical Park[[File:Ford Mansion, Morristown, NJ - looking north.jpg100pxHome of Theodosia Ford in Morristown that served as the revolutionary military headquarters for George Washington during the winter of 1779-1780]]MorristownMorrisAmerican Revolutionary War sites: Ford Mansion, Jockey Hollow, Fort Nonsense, and New Jersey Brigade Encampment Site

References

References

  1. National Park Service. "National Historic Landmarks Program: Questions and Answers".
  2. (March 2013). "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State". National Park Service.
  3. These are listed on p.114 of "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State"
  4. Date of listing as National Monument or similar designation, from various sources in articles indexed.
  5. "Paterson Great Falls". National Park Service.
  6. (2003-01-16). "Ellis Island Time". Staue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.
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