State: New Jersey
New Jersey isn’t just turnpikes and shore towns — there’s a quiet countryside, too. In farm country and small historic towns, you’ll find stone houses from the 1700s, center-hall Colonials, and early farmhouses still sitting along winding roads. In older cities and suburbs, there are Queen Annes with turrets and trim, Dutch Colonials with flared eaves, and bungalows with original built-ins and wide porches. Some homes have been carefully restored, others still hold the marks of every decade they’ve seen. If you’re drawn to homes with variety, history, and a few surprises, you’ll find it in New Jersey.
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c. 1760/1790 – Bridgeton, NJ
Circa 1790. This Beautiful Brick Colonial home is located in rural Alloway Township, Salem County, New Jersey. Generations have known this historic landmark as the Col. Jacob Hitchner house, with ties directly to our first president, George Washington. Legend says that Col. Jacob Hitchner received a battlefield commission for heroically providing food to Washington’s men when they were starving at Valley Forge, PA. The house was originally built circa 1760 and finished in 1790. It has led many lives: a home, a revolutionary war era tavern and stagecoach stop, a town center, a farm and finally a home again.
