Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . nes army, attendedroll-call, and he remembered seeing the soldiers remove their capsand stand on them to protect their bare feet from snow and also said that, when the troops started for Morristown, wherethey went because of fear of being flanked by the British who followedhard at their heels, a heavy snow was falling, and the bleeding feet ofthe soldiers left a red trail as they marched. Their way, continued the narrator, was along the old Bloomfieldroad. .
Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . nes army, attendedroll-call, and he remembered seeing the soldiers remove their capsand stand on them to protect their bare feet from snow and also said that, when the troops started for Morristown, wherethey went because of fear of being flanked by the British who followedhard at their heels, a heavy snow was falling, and the bleeding feet ofthe soldiers left a red trail as they marched. Their way, continued the narrator, was along the old Bloomfieldroad. . From Bloomfield the march was through Caldwell, wherethe snow became so deep that the artillery was left behind, imbeddedin drifts, on a road near where the penitentiary now stands, untilspring. At Bloomfield a picket was posted to guard the rear. Oneof the men climbed on to the fence to see if the British were the act his gun was discharged, killing him instantly. Jasper Cranes story is confirmed by the fact that a snow-stormdid begin on February 3, 1779, and lasted three days, leaving 40 HISTORIC NEWARK. OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE AT LYONS FARMS At one time the oldest school-house in use in the United States, and standing on land purchased from the Indians for a quarter of a pound of powder. Built in 1784 on the site of the original school-house which was burned by the British the snow eight feet deep on the Bloomfield road. Further proofalso is offered in the fact that, when Wayne made his attack, July,1779, on Stony Point, he was without artillery. The Magazine House was a stone building erected in 1812 andused by the Decatur Powder Works. For some years it occupied thisground on which, tradition claims, Waynes Camp was located. Beforeits destruction several years ago, when modern dwellings crept up to it,the powder house was located at Heller Parkway and the newly openedWoodside Avenue, back of the Summerfield Methodist Church. NEWARKS OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE In the southern pa
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