Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . hburned. As business swept toward the corner, the Coe place wastorn down, and on the land now stand buildings devoted to commer-cial interests. Benjamin Coe, Jr., gave one hundred pounds towardbuilding the First Presbyterian Church. ANTHONY WAYNES CAMP-GROUND Anthony Wayne, with a detachment of the American army con-sisting of about two thousand men, according to tradition encampedin the north end of Newark during the intensely cold winter of camp is said to h
Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . hburned. As business swept toward the corner, the Coe place wastorn down, and on the land now stand buildings devoted to commer-cial interests. Benjamin Coe, Jr., gave one hundred pounds towardbuilding the First Presbyterian Church. ANTHONY WAYNES CAMP-GROUND Anthony Wayne, with a detachment of the American army con-sisting of about two thousand men, according to tradition encampedin the north end of Newark during the intensely cold winter of camp is said to have been in the vicinity of what is now WoodsideAvenue. The Old Powder Magazine, erected in 1812 for the storageof powder of the Decatur Works, stood on the site of this Revolution-ary camp-ground. Thirty years ago, because no record of this en-campment had been made, a Newark writer went over the site, andpersonally talked with many of the old residents of the north end,including the grandson of the woman who owned the woods where theencampment is said to have been. By careful investigation he gleaned 39 HISTORIC NEWARK. THE OLD POWDER MAGAZINE On Heller Parkway and Woodside Avenue. This stood on ground where Anthony Wayne issaid to have encamped in 1779 much that was interesting, and said that traces of this encampmentare found in the excavations which the soldiers made for their In one of these excavations the stones which mark the temporaryfireplace still remain. Grape-shot and a sword were also found onthe camp-ground. About a mile northwest, continued the writerof this account, the old barn, in which were slaughtered the cattlefor the use of the army, still stands. Mr. Nathaniel Crane, whose family owned this barn, was inter-viewed, and declared he had heard his father talk of the Crane, whose father was a soldier in Waynes army, attendedroll-call, and he remembered seeing the soldiers remove their capsand stand on them to protect their bare fee
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