Joyce Kilmer Historic District

The Joyce Kilmer neighborhood preserves some of the oldest surviving streetscape in New Brunswick, including properties that date to the colonial and early Federal periods. Continental Army encampments in 1776–1777 were spread across what is now the city's east side, with supply stores and artillery parks in the area near the river. The district provides the best surviving sense of New Brunswick's scale and layout during the Revolutionary period, when it was a mid-sized market town controlling the Raritan crossing on the main post road between New York and Philadelphia.