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Dock Watch Quarry

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Dock Watch Quarry is an abandoned trap rock quarry located on Dock Watch Hollow Road in Warren Township, New Jersey. The site was excavated from the Preakness Basalt formation of the Second Watchung Mountain, and was active from 1930 until the early 1980s. Controversies surrounding the quarry's operations led to landmark legal decisions concerning nonconforming land use in New Jersey. Today, the site is preserved as an open space, and is recognizable by a basalt cliff face 280 feet (85 m) in height.

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Dock Watch Quarry
Dock Watch Hollow Road, Warren Township

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Dock Watch Hollow Road
07059 Warren Township
New Jersey, United States
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Middlebrook encampment
Middlebrook encampment

"Middlebrook encampment" may refer to one of two different seasonal stays of the Continental Army in central New Jersey near the Middlebrook in Bridgewater Township in Somerset County. They are usually differentiated by either the date of the encampment or their chronological order (First vs Second).The First Middlebrook encampment refers to the spring encampment of the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington, during the American War for Independence near the Middle Brook in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey (between Martinsville and Bound Brook) in 1777. The second, longer winter cantonment took place in 1778–1779, from December 1 to mid-June. A cantonment is a protracted quartering of an army in a specific location, typically for the duration of the winter.A portion of the first encampment site, known as the Washington Camp Ground, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1975. The Campground is located in Martinsville, a section of Bridgewater Township. The Middlebrook Encampment site includes part of the ridge of the First Watchung Mountain. Its position provided a natural fortress not only protecting the Continental Army but also overlooking the plains towards New Brunswick, where the British forces were stationed in 1777. A surviving earthen redoubt believed to date to the 1777 encampment is also located on the mountain within Washington Valley Park. The strategic strength of the army's position on the Watchung or Blue Mountain ridge contributed ultimately to the success of the Continental Army by lengthening the war and wearying the British forces during both of the army's stays.