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Washington’s Temporary Headquarters
Montclair, United States
This boulder which lay from time immemorial on this site near the turn of the old road marks the location of a house used by General George Washington as temporary headquarters on October 26, 1780 while on march from Totowa now Paterson to support Lafayette’s expedition against the enemy on Staten Island. In commemoration of that event this tablet is erected by the Eagle Rock Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution and the Montclair Chapter Sons of the American Revolution October 26, 1922 Eternal Vigilance is the price of Liberty