Would you like to learn American History
first hand? You will find it recorded 
in the story of the quaint old town at 
the broad end of the Delaware River.

Upon the quiet streets beneath the 
old trees, have passed the makers 
of this nation's history- in peace, the
lordly landowners, the estates of 
Berkeley and Carteret, or a poor run- 
away lad named Benjamin Franklin 
stopping for the night at Mr. Brown's 
house on his way to Philadelphia.

Here still stands the great elm under
whose shade they say Thomas Paine
used to lie, pondering perhaps, on his
great philosophy of the rights of man
or living over again his part gathering
to the defense of New York in 76-
the stragglers of Washington's army
retreating from Von Donop's Hessians
who occupied the town as the center
of the British line just before their
defeat at Trenton; Washington and
his generals riding through town on
his way to victory at Yorktown;
Lafayette triumphantly received in his
visit to Bonaparte; Lincoln a traveler
while in Congress on his way to New York

In the old brick mansion still standing
beneath two ancient buttonwoods
lived the Hopkinsons -
Francis, ''The Signer'' and Joseph his son. 
Both were eminent
jurists, and both were writers of songs.

Look upon the Great Seal of
New Jersey; Francis Hopkinson designed
it. He probably designed too, the
American flag of Betsy Ross. Over the
grave of Joseph in the old cemetery
of Christ Church is the inscription,
''Here lies the author of ''Hail Columbia"