Van Wickle Pottery

Historical marker location:

1600 Route 70W, Brick, New Jersey

( Marker is on John Davidson Rockefeller Memorial Highway near Rivera Drive when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1982

c. 1828-1850.

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.