Old Barracks Museum

This stone barracks in Trenton is the last surviving colonial-era barracks in New Jersey, built in the 1750s to house British soldiers during the French and Indian War. It later played a role in the Revolution when Washington's surprise attack on Hessian troops quartered nearby produced the pivotal victory at the Battle of Trenton in December 1776. Restored as a museum, it features period rooms, a soldiers' squad room with rope beds, and costumed interpreters demonstrating eighteenth-century military life.