Hide your valuables! The Red Coats
to battle the Rebels in Haddonfield!
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Re-enactors portraying
the Loyalists to the King and the Colonialists will face-off in downtown
Haddonfield at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 7, in an event called “Skirmishing on the
March to the Battle of Monmouth.”
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The event marks the 236th
anniversary of the British encampment in Haddonfield and celebrates the town’s
rich Revolutionary War heritage.
Starting at 10 a.m. on
June 1, the Second Pennsylvania Regiment – the Rebels - will encamp at the
Indian King Tavern at 233 Kings Highway East, Haddonfield, until they battle
with the First Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers (the Red Coats or Loyalists).
Around 1 p.m. the Red
Coats will march down Kings Highway and encounter a division of Colonial
Rebels, where the battle will begin. The skirmish should take about 30 minutes,
so don’t be late. Later in the afternoon, children will be able to march with
wooden muskets down Kings Highway.
There will be plenty of
space for viewing and cheering along Kings Highway, which will be shut to
traffic.
At 2 p.m. the there will
be a special talk about Haddonfield in the American Revolution in the Indian
King’s Ballroom.
Re-enactors will be
cooking over fires and guarding their camps at the Indian King and across the
street at Borough Hall, and guests are welcomed to meet and talk with them up
until 4 p.m.
From
7 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, Kings Highway will be closed to
parking from Haddon Avenue to Grove Street. This same area will be closed
to traffic from about 12:50 p.m. until 1:40 p.m. Remington and Vernick are
sponsors for the event.
Visiting the Indian King Tavern is
like stepping back in time to the Revolutionary Era, with its period rooms and
historical details. The Indian King Tavern is where the New Jersey Rebel Assembly
met in 1777 as we fought a war against the British who were occupying the
state. The tavern is now a museum and an important part of our state’s history.
The Indian King Tavern is a state-owned historic site operated with the
assistance of the Friends of the Indian King Tavern.
