Consider joining M.A.R.C.H. as a member as part of a New Year's resolution! 

 Help the township's historical society protect and preserve the last vestiges of this valley's rich history.

      Two hundred thirty five years have passed since Gen. Horatio Gates arrived with four regiments from the Nothern Department into this corner of NJ. He led a column of six hundred men along Old Mine Road, who spent the night in the village of Montague on  Dec. 11th, 1776. They were attempting to unite with Gen. Washington for his famed crossing of the Delaware River into Trenton, but were delayed by a winter storm which detained them in the hamlet of Walpack [as recorded in the diary of Gates' Chaplain, David Avery].