The Johnson Ferry House was probably used by General George Washington and his staff during the Christmas night Crossing of the Delaware in 1776.

The farm is open for visits and is located in Titusville, NJ at the Washington Crossing State Park. All of the photos presented in this blog were taken at the Washington Crossing Park area in New Jersey.

Continental Lane where Washington began his march to the Battle of Trenton and the road to liberty as the first major victory of the American Revolution, is also is this area. 

The Durham rowboats and flat ferries moved into position after dark as the snow and winds increased from the nor’easter storm. The men who sailed them were experienced Watermen from the New England Patriot enlisted. The guns and horses and as many men who could stand in the rowboats were loaded and miraculously survived the treacherous icy river that night. 

After exiting the boats safely in New Jersey on the opposite Pennsylvania shore George Washington then had to march his troops nine more miles in the storm on a path known these days as Continental Lane. 

There is a small sign at the start of Continental Lane in New Jersey, the picture is below. My group walked that path, in silence, except for our footsteps of the brush crunching under walking shoes. George Washington’s men did it in freezing winds and sleet many without shoes 250 years ago.