The Vail - Trust House is list on the National and State Register of Historic Places. For more information on the Vail-Trust House, see Houses.
 

The Vermeule-Mundy House, which is a Georgian, center-hall, style house, is unique in that neither the interior nor exterior has been greatly modified. There are nine rooms in the house and a full, stone basement divided into a number of secure storage spaces. The house has both a front and back stairway, and in the attic you can see the hand-hewn beams butted together to form the ridge of the roof.

The Vermeule - Mundy House is expected to be listed on the National and State Register of Historic Places in 2011. For more information on the Vermeule - Mundy House, see Houses.

The purpose of the Green Brook History Trail is provide public access to Green Brooks Township's beautiful Open Space acreage, to offer a recreational facility, and to educate the public about the area's rich history. Because the completion of the Green Brook Township History Trial is expected to take many years, proposed project has been divided into three, distinct phases: western, central, and eastern. Phase I will focus on just the western portion of the trail.

When fully constructed, the Green Brook History Trail will link together four historic sites along the First Watchung Mountain in Green Brook Township: two Revolutionary War beacon sites, Washington Rock State Park, and a Pre-revolutionary War copper mine. The six-and-a-half mile trail will traverse the southern side of the mountain through heavily wooded, mountain preservation-zone land, much of which is owned by Green Brook Township and designated as Open Space.

The History Trail will run between the two beacon sites, Quibbletown Gap to the northeast and Lincoln's Gap to the southwest. The Revolutionary War signal beacons were part of a communication network located in northern and central New Jersey. General Lord Stirling directed the construction of the network in March of 1779, under orders from George Washington. The beacons consisted of a pyramids of logs fourteen feet square at the base and sixteen feet high. The bonfires were used to muster local militia units to confront attacks by British forces.

Just to the west of Quibbletown Gap, the new trail will cross Cardinal Lane, an existing hiking trail providing access to Washington Rock State Park. Washington Rock was used by General Washington in the spring of 1777 as a lookout and defensive position during the first Middlebrook Encampment. After the war, it became a popular spot for celebrations and day trips. Cardinal Lane was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to accommodate visitors traveling by stage coach to-and-from the Plainfield train station. Today it is a popular hiking tail running up the mountain.

To the southwest of Warrenville Road, the History Trail will run just below the Cox Copper mine that dates from the mid-eighteenth century. The mine entrance is closed, but its location can clearly determined by the large mound of tailings from the mine. There is also a smaller mine just to the east and a long trench to the west (probably for draining the mine), which still has water flowing from it. The site is located on property owned by Green Brook Township.

The southwestern terminus of the trail is the site of the Lincoln Gap beacon. The site was the location of an artillery battery during the 1777 Middlebrook Encampment when General Benjamin Lincoln's troops were located on the mountain ridge. The site is at the intersection of Morning Glory and King George Roads, and overlooks the old King George roadbed.

Hikers seeking to extend their walk can cross Morning Glory Road and continue along the lightly-traveled Hillcrest Avenue (Bridgewater Township) along the top of the ridge. The road passes by the 1779 Middlebrook encampment site (on the State and National Register) to Vossler Avenue and Wayne's Gap Encampment site. The area of the ridge occupied by General Wayne's troops is now part of the Somerset County's Washington Valley Park.
 

The GBHS and the township CHHP committee are developing profiles of some of the Township's former residents. 

Six years earlier, Lillian had married Edward Foster Feickert, a 28-year-old banker from New York. The couple had initially moved to Plainfield, where Edward had joined the newly formed Plainfield Trust Company. During the next several years, the company flourished, along with Edward’s career, and he quickly became vice-president of the bank, which was re-named the State Trust Company.

For the first few years, Feickert spent much of her time tending to her new house and surrounding gardens. Following the tragic death of their infant child several years before, she had occupied herself with volunteer work for her church - the Grace Episcopal Church of Plainfield – and a number of women’s organizations. As the wife of a successful banker, she appeared to be headed for a quite life of obscurity. But just twelve years later, Feickert was to become a major player in New Jersey politics, as well as the first woman from New Jersey to run for the United States Senate.
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