Historic Houses
What is the oldest house still standing in Hamilton?
The Watson House
What is the name of the ship which arrived here from England?
Ship Shield
What does the name Lenni Lenape mean?
Original People
Who built a country home in Hamilton, with a movie screen, tennis courts, and an airplane landing strip?
Fred Kuser
During what war did the colonists fight the British forindependence?
The Revolutionary War
Where was New Jersey's money hidden from the British?
The basement of the John Abbott II House
Name 3 reasons people left Europe for the "new world".
Free land, adventure, and freedom of religion
Name 3 jobs a Lenni Lenape woman might do.
Caring for children, cooking, planting, making clothes, gathering berries and nuts
The "Three Beeches" homestead was owned by this archeologist.
Charles Conrad Abbott
What was the name of one of the largest training camps for the military during the Civil War?
Camp Olden
What home was rented by Joseph Bonaparte, the former King of Spain?
Bow Hill Mansion
What did the first group of early settlers call Hamilton?
Yorkshire Tenth
What are the two types of homes the Lenni Lenape lived in?
Wigwams and longhouses
Who renamed Yorkshire Tenth as Nottingham Township after his home in England?
Isaac Watson
This is the building which has a cannon ball lodged in its wall.
Friend's Meeting House
What building was once used as a stagecoach stop for visitors to Hamilton?
Yardville Hotel
Where was the first meeting of the new government held when Nottingham was renamed Hamilton in 1842?
Yardville Hotel/Farmer's Inn
What were 3 things animals were used for by the Lenni Lenape?
Clothing, tools, food
Who was the New Jersey Treasurer who hid the money at the Abbott House?
Samuel Tucker
Why were many colonial children taught at home?
They needed to help out on the family farm.
What two houses were "stations" on the Underground Railroad?
Locust Hill and The Middleton House
What is the name of the religious group who came to Hamilton for freedom to worship God as they chose?
The Quakers
Name 4 reasons the Lenape built their villages by water.
They needed water for cooking, bathing, watering crops, fishing, transportation, and recreation.
Who rented his home to the King of Spain?
Barnt DeKlyn
What was the Underground Railroad?
A route used by escaping slaves during the Civil War in which they stayed at houses for protection ontheir way from the south to Canada.