Major General Daniel Morgan

Historical marker location:

New Hampton, New Jersey

( Marker is on Musconetcong River Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Commander of the Famed Morgan Rifle Corps.

New Jersey played a significant role in the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by African American slaves to escape to freedom in the North. Many abolitionists in New Jersey helped fugitive slaves, including Harriet Tubman, who is known to have traveled through the state.