SAR250 Washington Crossing

and the Ten Crucial Days

Commemorations and Reenactment

The Ten Crucial Days Historic Area

Including Washington Crossing (PA), Washington Landing (NJ), the Trenton Battle Monument, the Old Barracks Museum, Mill Hill Park, the site of the Battle of Assunpink Creek, Princeton Battlefield, Stony Brook Quaker Meeting, the homes and burial sites of Declaration of Independence signers, John Witherspoon and Richard Stockton, Nassau Hall, the classic colonial style Nassau Inn, great food, great holiday shopping — come celebrate with Compatriots at Christmastime where Washington’s vision for victory made history.

Washington Crossing at 250! While the actual crossing took place on December 25th, Washington Crossing is pulling out all the stops. Tours, talks, tastings, and toasts - a pre-holiday commemoration on December 11, 12 and13.

Event Schedule

(Pending Approvals)

These events are organized and managed by the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Societies, Sons of the American Revolution

• Friday, December 11 AM @ 9:00 Abridged version of the Traversing the Ten Crucial Days bus tour for a tax-deductable $150. Proceeds to benefit the sites of the Ten Crucial Days. Not the standard seven-hour tour beginning at 8 AM - more like three and a half hours - very little time, if any, will be spent off the bus. The purpose of this tour is to give members a "Ten Crucial Days 101" so they will get the lay of the land on both sides of the Delaware. (Recommended that Compatriots arrive at the Nassau Inn at 8:30 for a 9:00 AM Departure)

• Friday, December 11, Midday - Free time for members to go back and visit sites (or go shopping). 

• Friday, December 11 Evening Time TBD - Welcome Reception at the Washington Landing Museum and Visitor Center, featuring the Unionville Vineyards "Washington Series" wines - Revolutionary Red, Victory White, Battlefield Blush. 

• Saturday, December 12, Morning 

  • Wreath Commemorations at the Colonnade at Princeton Battlefield 500 Mercer Street, Princeton NJ 08540, 8 AM,

  • Richard Stockton Commemoration, Stony Brook Friends Burial Ground, 470 Quaker Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540, 10 AM,

  • John Witherspoon Commemoration, Princeton Cemetery, 29 Greenview Ave., Princeton, NJ 08540 12 PM.

• Saturday, December 12 - 2 PM - 5 PM: Several small bus tour options to other area Rev War sites and a public reading of The American Crisis (Site TBD)

• Saturday, December 12 - 6 PM - 9 PM Buffet Banquet with Guest Speaker and Music from The Crossing, Cooper's Riverview Restaurant in Trenton. The site of this restaurant is in Trenton’s Ferry District. It is historically significant.

• Sunday, December 13 - WCHP  "First Crossing" with Wreath Commemoration and WCSP "Washington's Landing" (Members will have a choice on which to attend, or they may walk across the bridge to do both.

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