National Register Listing
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
State House District
a.k.a. See Also:State House Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Roughly bounded by Capitol Plaza, Willow, State and Lafayette Sts., Trenton, NJ Local significance of the district: Military; Politics/government; Architecture
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
About National Register Listings
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.
The first recorded instance of a submarine attack on a ship occurred off the coast of New Jersey during the American Civil War. On February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley attacked and sank the Union ship USS Housatonic near Charleston, South Carolina, while on its way from New Jersey.