Raritan Landing

Raritan Landing  was dense with businesses and rich with a variety of trades and skills. Here imports arrived from Europe and the Caribbean, while goods and produce of New Jersey were loaded on ships for export. It was exciting, international and cosmopolitan. But the Revolutionary War took its toll: the Delaware and Raritan Canal siphoned trade and New Brunswick won the coveted terminus of the railroads. These developments tolled a death knell for the Landing.

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Now a permanent exhibit, we invite you to enter the world of Raritan Landing, as told through the objects and artifacts of its citizens, the soldiers who camped here, and the stories uncovered through archaeology.

 

Ask for your copy of these limited editions:

 

Voices from Raritan Landing, An Educational Guide to a Colonial Port Community​, the stories of 26 people who lived and worked at Raritan Landing in the 18th century.

 

Rediscovering Raritan Landing​, an introduction to archaeology and the Landing, an original children's story written and illustrated by Christee Curran.