This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state. The United States National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. There are 58 NHLs in New Jersey..
Key
National Historic LandmarkNational Historic Landmark DistrictNational Historic Site, National Historical Park, National Memorial, or National MonumentDelisted Landmark
Current NHLs in New Jersey There are NHLs in seventeen of the twenty-one counties in the state. Mercer County has fourteen NHLs, in and around Princeton, New Jersey.
Historic areas in the United States National Park System National Historic Sites, National Historic Parks, National Memorials, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are often not also named NHLs per se. There are four of these in New Jersey. The National Park Service lists these three together with the NHLs in the state,These are listed on p.114 of "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State" These are:
Landmark nameImageDate establishedDate of listing as National Monument or similar designation, from various sources in articles indexed.Location County Description Paterson Great Falls Paterson Passaic A National Natural Landmark and site of mills and mill races originally developed by the Society of Useful Manufacture in late 1700s that are a Civil Engineering Landmark Ellis Island (part of Statue of Liberty National Monument) Jersey City Hudson Immigration processing depot from 1892 to 1954. A portion of Ellis Island is in New York. Thomas Edison National Historical Park West Orange Essex Inventor Thomas Alva Edison's laboratory and residence, Glenmont Morristown National Historical Park Morristown Morris American Revolutionary War sites: Ford Mansion, Jockey Hollow, Fort Nonsense, and New Jersey Brigade Encampment Site
See also List of National Historic Landmarks by state National Register of Historic Places listings in New Jersey List of National Natural Landmarks in New Jersey
References
External links National Historic Landmarks Program, at National Park Service National Park Service listings of National Historic Landmarks