Continental Army Campsite (center column) in Passaic
Location
Passaic, NJ
Who?: American
Units: General Benjamin Lincoln with Colonel Alexander Scammell's Light Infantry and the First New York Regiment
Direction: north
Destination: Springfield, New Jersey and Yorktown, Virginia
Date: August 26/27, 1781
Public Access: 1
The Center Column of the Continental Army under General Benjamin Lincoln camped here on August 26/27, 1781. The campsite was “two miles below Acquakenach Bridge” i.e. Passaic.