The nearest large battlefield to me has been turned into a condo complex and a Walmart in the last few years.
It’s a shame, the ridge on it had a good history in the war, and has a commanding view of the entire valley system.
Would be nice if they could save the historic Von Steuben house on the Hackensack, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822284/posts
Would be nice if the Feds bought out Princeton University’s battlefield so the battlefield could be maintained as a historic site instead of being used to construct faculty housing in 2010.
I’d like to know what has happened to the land since the War. Is it privately owned? Are these sites associated with the war directly enough that no one thought to preserve them for 232 years but which now need to be preserved or is it land which environmentalists want to put off limits to development and are using the Revolutionary War to justify it? Sorry to be suspicious but how is it the land needs protecting now? Was the land preserved all this time but now some private person has purchased the lands for development? Why now? And how much is enough to preserve and how much should be allowed to move on in history? I have never been to New Jersey so I am definitely posting out of ignorance of these historical sites or New Jersey’s efforts to preserve such sites. I am willing to be enlightened.
(BTW, though I’ve never been to New Jersey, at least one of my g-ad infinitum grandfathers from Morristown fought in the Revolutionary War so I have nothing against preserving adequate memorials to the war, especially now that we as a society are forgetting what lessons were learned in that time regarding freedom.)
It would. That's an issue that could use more publicity.