While the Confederate "heritage" flag still flies, Princeton Battlefield is about to be desecrated

I've been following this story from afar and it's down to the wire now. Although the Princeton Battlefield Society has an injunction for now, the bulldozers are there and the construction fencing is up.

http://www.centraljersey.com/news/princeton-institute-for-advanced-study-battlefield-society-reach-agreement-to/article_483301b4-1528-11e5-8692-77a36e017dd3.html


What a perfect place to build 15 townhouses for The Advanced Institute's faculty housing....

Here is a great new video that shows how the battle was fought and views of the park and area today...and the fight that goes on to save the battlefield...including an interview with a descendant of one of the soldiers who fought in the battle

The Crossroads of the Revolution video is on this page:

http://www.theprincetonbattlefieldsociety.com/

"January 3, 1777 was a critical day in American History. With leadership from General George Washington, patriotic troops defeated British Regulars at the Battle of Princeton …the turning point in the American Revolution.....This remarkable battlefield and the men who fought here deserve to be remembered. At present we are actively working on preserving the battlefield from development by the Institute for Advanced Study."

When living in the area, I often drove out of Princeton down the narrow road, past the Monument (where I once saw wedding photos being taken), past the Clarke House( built in 1772, the only building still standing near the battlefield), through the deep woods over the little stream, past the open fields and finally out to Route 1. I remember the now-gone Mercer Oak. I also once took a birding hike along trails on the Institute's land. The road through the grounds was like going back to 1777, a miracle on the way to the modern ugliness and congestion of Route 1.

So, the bulldozers are out on the battlefield now....to take more property from this area and turn it over to development....

Heritage worth protecting....this is a state park and listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, as a U.S. National Historic Landmark. a U.S. Historic district, and is on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places.

The narrator at the end of the video has it right....this is hallowed ground..."in a country that espouses patriotism while trivializing preservation....we owe it to the generations to follow, to preserve what little is left....."