Henry Doremus house in #towaco #montville #nj a colonial Dutch...

Henry Doremus house in #towaco #montville #nj a colonial Dutch house built circa 1760, both #georgewashington and #alexanderhamilton stayed here after the Battle of Springfield during the #americanrevolution and the French army encamped nearby en route to Yorktown. #newjersey — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2xmQqhw

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Hamilton/Burr Dueling Grounds, Weehawken, NJ

Alexander Hamilton memorial bust in Weehawken, NJ

Alexander Hamilton memorial looking generally south down the Hudson River

Alexander Hamilton 'boulder' upon which he rested his head after being mortally wounded by Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton memorial bust looking generally northeast

Weehawken dueling grounds in NJ made famous by the Hamilton/Burr duel, but there were other dignatories who dueled here including Dewitt Clinton, a former governor of New York, and Oliver Perry. The reason the duels happened in Weehawken is because it wasn’t in New York. Dueling wasn’t legal in New York and the participants were seeking to avoid criminal charges in NY. What’s interesting is that dueling wasn’t legal in New Jersey either, but apparently the State of New Jersey took a laissez-faire approach to dueling. Can you imagine NJ being such a lawless place that people, seeking to evade the laws of NY, would row across the Hudson River thinking they could participate in a duel in NJ with impunity?

In the pictures above the picture of the boulder with pennies on it is apparently the boulder thought to be the boulder where Alexander Hamilton rested his head after being mortally wounded. Hamilton did not die in NJ, but rather died a relatively painful and protracted death in NYC.

The Great Falls at Paterson, NJ in frozen splendor

Great Falls at Paterson, NJ

Passaic Falls at Paterson, NJ with hydroelectric plant

Closeup of frozen falls creating a tube of ice

Great Falls at Paterson, NJ frozen over

Statue of Alexander Hamilton at Great Falls

Alexander Hamilton overlooks the Passaic River

Closeup of Statue of Alexander Hamilton

Statue and pedestral of Alexander Hamilton

Pictures taken February 28th, 2015 showing the Great Falls (Passaic Falls) in Paterson, NJ in frozen splendor. After a long and very cold winter, the weather finally cleared and offered a relatively warm, but still sub freezing temperature revealing the Great Falls in a frozen state with water flow slowly carving tubes of ice from the top of the falls nearly all the way to the bottom creating the visual effect that the falls appear almost completely frozen over.