The bridge was renovated and paved in 2007.Īt this spot on January 4, 1777, General Washington decided to move his troops to Morristown for the winter, thus ending the victorious Trenton-Princeton campaign, rather than attack New Brunswick. More than 100 years later, that bridge was itself replaced by a steel girder bridge in 1984, still using the old pillars. In 1875, the wooden bridge was replaced by a steel pipe truss bridge. During the Revolutionary War, the bridge was used repeatedly by both sides including during the Battle of Bound Brook in 1777. , who maintain it as a museum.Ī wooden bridge over the Raritan River was erected as early as 1761 and named Queen's Bridge in 1767. It is currently the headquarters for the Friends of Abraham Staats House, Inc. It was placed on the New Jersey and National Registers in 2002. The house remained a private home until it was acquired by the Borough of South Bound Brook in 1999. 1740), located on the south side of Main Street, served as the headquarters of Baron Von Steuben during the American Revolutionary War. The area was originally a Dutch community with apple orchards and just west peach orchards.
The brook, which was mentioned as a boundary in a Native American deed, provides the source of the borough's name. The first European settlement was in 1681 and a community was established near the Bound Brook stream of the same name, which flows into the Raritan River via the Green Brook on the eastern side of the borough. The area had historically been occupied by the Lenape Native Americans.
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