‘Mapping the history of the world one locality at a time.’
First, download the latest version of ‘Google Earth PRO’ [not Google Maps].
Then to install *prototype*, click below. [ For more complete instructions see: ‘To Start’ ]
*Prototype*: Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, NJ – REVISED & ENLARGED
DELAWARE TOWNSHIP revised 2023
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All files highlighted in blue are downloadable and free. [Revisions are dated for your reference.]
HUNTERDON REV WAR EFFORT [March 2025]
Encampments, marches, skirmishes, mills, storehouses, Quartermasters, forges, furnaces, and other contributions to the Revolutionary War effort in Hunterdon County.
OTHER REV WAR DOWNLOADS
The Revolutionary War in New Jersey – Defense of the Delaware; British Power; Trenton & Princeton; Forage War; Philadelphia Campaign; British Retreat; Revolution as Civil War; Post-Yorktown; Winter Camps; Signal Beacons
REVOLUTIONARY WAR in NEW JERSEY – Mar 2017
18thC TRENTON during the war years 1774-1783 ~ by Larry Kidder
TRENTON and the AMERICAN REVOLUTION – Mar 2017
WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE
The places Washington stayed throughout the colonies during the eight years of the Revolutionary War including winter encampments, the northern forts, the presidential mansions, etc.
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PENNSYLVANIA DOWNLOAD:
“Revolutionary War Patriots’ Historic Houses of Dauphin County Pennsylvania”
The book also by this name is an incredible research effort by Bob & Donna Bakelaar of Dauphin County, PA that includes extensive information about the patriots themselves as well as the locations of and details about their houses.
18thC Dauphin County PA Patriots & Their Houses
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16th, 17th & 18thC Fortifications – Forts in the American colonies, including star forts
16th17th18thC Fortifications in North America-NOV17
Westward Trails & Early Forts – Includes major western rivers & territories; early forts of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming; the California & Oregon Trails, Santa Fe Trail, and the Old Spanish Trail, as well as the Pony Express Trail and the Butterfield Overland Trail.
Westward Trails & Early Forts – 18th & 19th C
Colonial New France – The French Heritage Corridor [IN PROGRESS] The early history of the Louisana Purchase Territory – water travel, early roads, forts & trading posts, 19th century canals, early towns, early historic structures [mills, taverns, stores, churches, schools, houses]
Colonial New France – The French Heritage Corridor
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HUNTERDON COUNTY 18TH & 19TH CENTURY
Revised & Enlarged: 18th Century Hunterdon County – Geology; Watersheds; Indian Habitation; Land purchases; 18thC maps; roads, ferries, bridges; villages & townships; churches, cemeteries, schools; taverns & inns; stores; mills & distilleries; forges & furnaces; blacksmiths & wheelwrights; tanneries
18thC HUNTERDON COUNTY – revised 2025
Revised: 19th Century Hunterdon County – 19thC maps & roads; ferry crossings & bridges; canals & railroads; mills & distilleries; blacksmiths & wheelwrights; tanneries; forges & furnaces; churches & schools; stores & hotels [Enlarged to include Hunterdon County Townships, Boroughs, Towns & Villages in one download.]
19thC HUNTERDON COUNTY – revised 2025
Revised & Enlarged: 19th Century Hunterdon County Townships – Includes Alexandria, Bethlehem, Clinton, Delaware, East Amwell, Franklin, Holland, Kingwood, Lebanon, Raritan, Readington, Tewksbury, Union, West Amwell
TOWNSHIPS – 19thC Hunterdon May2020
Revised: 19th Century Hunterdon County Boroughs, Towns, & Villages – Annandale, Bloomsbury, Califon, Clinton, Flemington, Frenchtown, Glen Gardner, Hampton, High Bridge, Lamberville, Lebanon, Milford, New Hampton, Ringoes, Stockton-Prallsville
19thC BOROUGHS-TOWNS-VILLAGES MAY2020
Revised: Prallsville & Stockton – Historic Districts & Walking Tours
STOCKTON PRALLSVILLE [Reading’s Landing c.1705]
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NEW: Historic Districts & Properties of Hunterdon County – All of the historic areas & historic properties listed on the State & National Registers of Historic Places.
Historic Districts & Properties of Hunterdon Co – 2023 July
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FORMER HUNTERDON COUNTY AREAS
Upper Mercer County – Maps, streams & creeks, roads & railroads, villages & valleys, historic districts: Ewing, Harbourton, Marshall’s Corner, Mount Rose, Pennington, Pleasant Valley, Stony Brook, Stoutsville, Woodsville [see separate downloads for Hopewell Borough, Lawrenceville & Titusville]
Hopewell Borough – Maps, outlying early lands & farmsteads, streams & creeks, roads & bridges, railroads, village development over time, Hopewell Borough Historic District
Lawrenceville [Maidenhead] – Early land maps & ownership; 18thC roads & bridges; 18thC structures & sites; 18thC taverns & mills; Lawrenceville Historic District
Maidenhead [Lawrenceville] MAR2020
Titusville, Mercer County New Jersey – A complete history of this delightful village!
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IT MAKES A VILLAGE – Our 18th & 19th century villages and how they developed. Includes the following layers of identification and explanation: waterways & water sources; ferries & bridges; early road systems; taverns, mills, distilleries, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, tanneries, churches, canals & railroads… plus currently existing hamlets & villages with their former names.
Early New Jersey Roads & Villages – An extensive listing of early New Jersey roads, including Indian trails and the villages that dotted these roads.
18thC NEW JERSEY roads & villages Jan17
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EARLY MAPS
Early 19thC Hunterdon County Maps – roads, villages, sites; 1812 Watson map; 1828 Gordon map
D. Stanton Hammond 1963 maps [original land ownership as overlays]
Other Historic Map References – 1851 Cornell, 1860 Philadelphia/NJ, 1873 Beers
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EARLIER DOWNLOADS:
SOMERSET COUNTY NEW JERSEY SOMERSET CO. Mar14
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MERCER CO. NJ – [For 18th-C Hopewell, Lawrence & Trenton/Ewing, see ‘Hunterdon Co. in the 18th Century’]
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NEW: 17th & 18th-Century Virginia – The early history of Virginia VIRGINIA-OCT2017
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OKLAHOMA – BEAVER COUNTY Aug14
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