Historic Churches of Somerset County, New Jersey
Historic Churches of Somerset County, New Jersey

Author: Frank L. Greenagel

Publisher: Vintage Images

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596292024

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This definitive guide will allow readers to "look anew" at the religious buildings of Somerset County, providing information for curious congregation members and historians alike.

The New Jersey Churchscape
The New Jersey Churchscape

Author: Frank L. Greenagel

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780813529905

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Although best known as the Garden State, New Jersey could also be called the Church State. The state boasts thousands of houses of worship, with more than one thousand still standing that were built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Frank L. Greenagel has photographed more than six hundred. He has selected two hundred of these historic landmarks for an examination of why they are sited where they are and why they look the way they do. Greenagel has sought out and included images of not only mainstream Christian churches, but also Jewish synagogues as well as the places of worship of religious groups such as the Moravians, the Church of the Brethren, and the Seventh Day Baptists. The photographs are arranged chronologically within sections on three major early settlement regions of the state ¾ the Hudson River, the Delaware River, and the Raritan Valley. For each building, Greenagel details the date of construction, the cultural, historic, and religious influences that shaped it, the architectural details that distinguish it, and what purpose it currently serves.

Somerset County
Somerset County

Author: William A. Schleicher

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738500812

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Between the Watchung Mountains to the north and the Sourland Mountains to the west lies the fertile valley of the Raritan River. Stout Dutch, Huguenot, German, Scottish, and English settlers began to cultivate family farms here as early as the 1680s. For almost a hundred years, the tramp of soldiers' feet and sounds of cannons had been unknown, but that was about to change. With its location astride two major routes between New York and Philadelphia, it is little wonder that Somerset County became the "Crossroads of the Revolution." A friendly populace and the protection of the mountains made this a safe haven for General Washington's army. His soldiers camped for three winters, including the harshest winter of the Revolution, in Somerset and in the adjacent areas of central New Jersey. Washington spent more time here than any other place during the War for Independence. It was in this historically significant county that the first military academy in the nation was built, the 13-star flag was first flown over American troops after its adoption by Congress, and the "Regulations for the Infantry of the United States" was written by General von Steuben.