Continental Army Campsite (right column) in Bridgewater
Location
Bridgewater, NJ
Who?: American
Units: General Washington and Colonel John Lamb's Second Continental Artillery Regiment
Direction: north
Destination: Yorktown, Virginia
Date: August 29/30, 1781
Public Access: 1
Continental Army troops camped here on August 29/30, 1781 along the Middle Brook. This is possibly the same site where Maryland troops had camped in the winter of 1778/79. At Millstone this column enters the route taken by the French forces a few days later.