Springfield Presbyterian Church

The meetinghouse at this site was burned during the Battle of Springfield on June 23, 1780. It is also the setting of the famous tradition in which James Caldwell supplied Isaac Watts hymnbooks as musket wadding and urged soldiers to give the enemy "Watts."  The Presbyterian Church's cemetery, located across Church Mall from the church, contains the graves of at least thirty-one Revolutionary War soldiers. A plaque at the gate pays tribute to "the heroic service performed at the Battle of Springfield, during the war for American Independence by the soldiers whose remains are resting within this sacred tract."

A statue of a Revolutionary War militia soldier honors the 500 New Jersey militia who fought and ultimately repelled a force of 6,000 British troops during the battle.