Fort Nonsense
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2009-07-05
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In addition, it is believed that the Morris County Militia was instructed to build a beacon of between 18 and 20 feet high.
It was to be constructed of a loose frame of logs with smaller combustibles filling the center. Such beacons were in fact found extending from the Hudson Highlands and all through northern New Jersey.
The beacon system was used on June 7, 1780 and again on June 23 when the British crossed into New Jersey.
Records tell of area militia responding to the alarms in June and engaging the British at Springfield, NJ
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Fort Nonsense, U.S. Historic district Contributing property, Morristown National Historical Park, Historic Morristown, National Historical Park, The American Revolution, American History, US History, George Washington, Continental Army, Winter Encampment, History, Morristown, Jockey Hollow, The Ford Mansion, Morris County, The American Revolution in New Jersey, The Skylands, Lakeland, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, The Garden State
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