About This Place
The Cobb House is a colonial-era farmhouse within Monmouth Battlefield State Park that survived the battle and provides a tangible example of the rural architecture and agricultural landscape through which the engagement was fought.
Revolutionary Significance
The Cobb House and the Rhea-Applegate House are among the surviving 18th-century structures within the battlefield. These farmhouses and their associated outbuildings, fences, orchards, and cultivated fields constituted the landscape through which the armies fought on June 28, 1778. The farms around Monmouth Court House were modest operations typical of central New Jersey agriculture — mixed-use properties growing grain, keeping livestock, and producing food for local consumption and limited market sale. The battle destroyed or damaged crops, fences, and buildings across dozens of farms, imposing an economic burden on the local population that was one of the hidden costs of the Revolutionary War. The Cobb House has been preserved and is interpreted as part of the battlefield landscape.
Location
Within Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Manalapan, NJ 07726
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Events at This Location
1778
Marquis de Lafayette
1778
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton
1778
Sir Henry Clinton, Charles Cornwallis
1778
Sir Henry Clinton
1778
Sir Henry Clinton, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
1778
George Washington, Charles Lee, Anthony Wayne
1778
Charles Lee, Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington
1778
1778
George Washington, Charles Lee, Sir Henry Clinton
1778
Mary Ludwig Hays (Molly Pitcher)
1778
George Washington, Charles Lee, Marquis de Lafayette
1778
Mary Ludwig Hays (Molly Pitcher)
1778
Marquis de Lafayette, Charles Lee, Anthony Wayne
1778
George Washington, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
1778
Charles Cornwallis, Anthony Wayne, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
1778
Alexander Hamilton, George Washington
1778
George Washington, Anthony Wayne, Alexander Hamilton
1778
Sir Henry Clinton, Charles Cornwallis
1778
Charles Lee, George Washington, Anthony Wayne
1779
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben