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Hancock House — Bayonet Massacre Site

Hancocks Bridge, NJ

British and Loyalist troops stormed this house in March 1778 and killed roughly two dozen people inside during the Hancock's Bridge massacre. The preserved eighteenth-century building operates as a state historic site with limited tour hours.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Roadside America

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