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

• 8 am - 4 pm  Registration Packet and Check In at the Nassau Inn, 10 Palmer Square, Princeton, NJ 08542 - + Free time to walk Princeton Shopping and historic Princeton University Campus

  • 2:00 pm Bus Ten Crucial Days Bus Tour Four-hour - Traversing the Ten Crucial Days bus tour. Cost: TBD Proceeds to benefit the sites of the Ten Crucial Days. Departure Point:-Nassau Inn

  • 6:00 - 7:30 pm  - Welcome Reception at the Washington Landing Museum and Visitor Center, 355 Washington Crossing, Pennington Road, Titusville, NJ 08560, featuring the Unionville Vineyards "Washington Series" wines - Revolutionary Red, Victory White, Battlefield Blush. Cost: TBD

  • 7:45 Bus Departure to return to Nassau Inn.

Saturday, December 12

• 9:00 am - Public reading of The American Crisis - Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540

  • 10:00 - 11:30 am Option 1: Free time to walk Princeton Shopping and the historic Princeton University Campus.

  • 10:00 - 11:30 am Option 2: Bus Tour Princeton Historic Sites Tour. Departure and Return, Nassau Inn. Cost: TBD

  • 2:00 - 5:30 pm via bus. Departure, Princeton Cemetery, 29 Greenview Ave., Princeton, NJ, 08540 Cost: TBD

    • 2:00 PM John Witherspoon Commemoration, Princeton Cemetery, 29 Greenview Ave., Princeton, NJ 08540.

    • 3:30 PM Wreath Commemorations at the Colonnade at Princeton Battlefield, 500 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540, 8 AM

    • 5:00 PM Richard Stockton Commemoration, Stony Brook Friends Burial Ground, 470 Quaker Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540, 10 AM,

  • 6:30 PM - 9 PM Cocktails + Buffet Banquet with Guest Speaker and Music from The Crossing, Cooper's Riverview Restaurant, 50 Riverview Plaza, Trenton, NJ 08611 in Trenton. The site of this restaurant is in Trenton’s Ferry District. It is historically significant. Cost: TBD

  • 9:45 PM Return to the Nassau Inn.

Sunday, December 13

     8:30 AM Bus Departure: Washington Crossing State Park (NJ) and Washington Crossing Historic Park (PA), 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, NJ 18977 "First Crossing and Washington's Landing" Wreath Commemoration and (Members will have a choice on which to attend, or they may walk across the bridge to do both.

·       3:00 PM Bus to Nassau Inn

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