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Swan Hotel, which contains popuar Anton's at the Swan restaurant and bar. Image NewJerseyAlmanac.com
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       Named 2019 as one of 
50 Most Charming Small Towns in America by The Travel Channel, also sometimes called 'Antiques Capital of New Jersey.' Delaware River bridge provides easy access to New Hope and other  Bucks County river towns, kayaking, rafting and canoeing. Architecture features federal townhouses and Victorian homes. Also located just north of Washington's Crossing, with New Jersey and Pennsylvania state parks on each side of river.
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  •  History      
       Founded in 1705 on the Delaware River, roughly at mid-point of what was then a two-day journey from New York City to Philadelphia, what is now Lambertville was originally known for some 80 years from its founding as 'Coryell's Ferry,' a name which also designated  the area on the other shore now New Hope, Pennsylvania. The name was derived from the ferry crossing the river begun by Emmanuel Coryell, who along with the ferry also operated a tavern and inn. During the Revolutionary War, the village served at two separate times to host George Washington, initially for a few days in the last week of July 1777 as he monitored British movements leading to their occupation of Philadelphia and, in the following year, after leading his soldiers from their winter encampment at Valley Forge, using the ferry in June 1778 to carry his soldiers across the Delaware as they then marched east to fight the British in the Battle of Monmouth. In both stays in Coryell's Ferry, Washington stayed at the Holcombe House, a stone home built in 1724 by John Holcombe, another founding settler with Coryell, who had  purchased 350 acres in the village and its surroundings.
PictureGeorge Coryell's Grave in the Presbyterian Church Yard. The Coryell family was one of the first settlers of the region, owning over 1,000 acres, and obtaining a charter to operate a ferry crossing the Delaware River slightly south of the present Lambertville-New Hope Bridge. Along with his ferry service, The Coryells opened a tavern and inn to accommodate travelers. The settlements which are now Lambertville and New Hope–originally were both called Coryell’s Ferry. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com
       
​        One of Emmanuel Coryell's grandsons, George Coryell who had served as a captain in the Revolutionary War, left the village to relocate to Alexandria, Virginia, where he evidently became a close friend of George Washington as a fellow member of the local Masonic Lodge. Coryell was a participant at Washington's funeral on December 18, 1799, reportedly either as a pallbearer or a carrier of the bier upon which Washington's coffin was placed. In his last years, George Coryell returned to his birthplace, where he died in February 1850.


​       In 1810, the village name was changed  from Coryell’s Ferry, to Lambert’s Ville. The Lambert family had settled between 1735 and 1745 and had built an inn and tavern in the center of the village. US Senator John Lambert during Thomas Jefferson’s administration persuaded the Postal Service to open a post office using the family name as the address for the village and making the inn the family had built as the location of the office with one of Lambert's nephews named as postmaster. The building is now restored as the Lambertville House inn and restaurant.

         Other early residents included the Marshall family, who built a home in 1816 which was the boyhood home of James Marshall who in his 20s ventured to California where he was the first discoverer in 1848 of gold at Sutter's Mill. and now serves as a museum in the town center.


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Image: Lambertville House
     
       Lambertville's location also aided its early growth, first as it was connected to the Delaware & Raritan Canal which conveyed barges transporting coal from Pennsylvania and later by railroad. It also became an industrial center, with factories making toilets, rubber and hairpins. Many jobs also were at the maintenance yards established by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
PictureThe People’s Store Antique and Design Center. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com
 
        But toward the end of the nineteenth century and through the 1960s, Lambertville's economy declined with the closing of factories and the Pennsylvania Railroad's relocation of its maintenance yards to Trenton. Gradually, however, its cheap housing and vacant  vacant retail and commercial space began to attract younger entrepreneurs and families interested in its new shops with art, crafts and antiques along with coffee shops and multi-ethnic dining and bars.  The area also became a center for carpenters, masons, plumbers, electricians, roofers, and architects, some starting new specialties in restoration. 

​*  History of Lambertville, Lambertville Historical Society 
  • Shops
​- The People’s Store Antique and Design Center (one of 10 Best Antique Shops in NJ, TripAdviser.com) hosts some 40 dealers in four-level building erected in 1839. Other shops 

- Blue Raccoon features furniture from top designers, selection of upholstery styles and fabrics in made-to-order upholstery, rugs, lighting, accessories and accent pieces.

- America Antiques & Design decorative arts showroom collection of 19th and 20th century clock tower dials, architectural antiques, custom furniture, and art.

- A Mano Galleries
​art, crafts, jewelry, housewares, pottery, knitware located in former 5 & Dime store

- Gallery Piquel 

exhibits original works from over 50 artists through permanent and rotating exhibitions, one of longest-running fine art galleries, includes mix of artworks in  variety of mediums from acrylics and oils to bronzes, ceramics, and encaustics. Locally owned and operated by husband-and-wife team Jim and Tamara Cannon.

- Golden Nugget Antique Flea Market, Located one mile south of town on Route 29, one of 10 Best Antique Shops in NJ, TripAdviser.com and one of few NJ flea markets open year-round, provides large outdoor and indoor market of furniture, art, ceramics, antiques, collectibles.


  • Sites                                                                                                                                                - James Wilson Marshall House first built 1816, boyhood home of James Marshall, discoverer of old in California in 1848, now owned by State of NJ and leased for use as headquarters and museum to Lambertville Historical Society, furnished with period pieces, art and quilt collection (open last weekend in April through November and by appointment throughout year).                                                                                                                                                                         - Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum focus on 18th and 20th century agricultural artifacts housed in restored three-story barn, exhibits and displays of farming equipment, tools, farm clothing, and process of preparing and preserving food. other buildings include blacksmith shop,  post office, general store, carriage shed, and printing shop. Open only Sunday afternoons and Wednesday mornings.                                                                                                                                  
  • Festivals                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              - Lambertville-New Hope Winter Festival, held in January with art gallery tour, pub crawl, chili cook-off, ice sculptures and parade (suspended during 2020-21 Covid cloings);                                                                                                                                                                                               - ShadFest in last week of April celebrating migration of shad (largest fish in herring family) with restaurant specials and street market.                                                                                                              
  • Dining                                                                                                                                        - - ----                                                                                                                                                             - Anton's at the Swan (restaurant and adjacent bar located in historic hotel,  artwork in dining room features paintings by local artists. poultry, seafood, entree range $25-$32, hamburgers $15, dinner Tuesday thru Sunday, closed Mondays);                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             - Hamilton's Grill Room  (courtyard location opposite The Boat House bar; Wednesday through Sunday 3-course prix fixe $65 dinner features seafood (scallops, shrimp, oysters), strip steak, cash or check only, BYOB)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                - Brian's (seafood, poultry, steak; BYOB, Prix Fixe Monday $50  Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday $65);                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      - d'floret  (28-seat restaurant features open kitchen and adjoining dining room exhibiting chef Dennis  Foy’s paintings with interior design by wife Estella with floor to ceiling Black Walnut Nakashima panel, lighting by Ayala Serfaty, cash or check only, open Thursday through Sunday)                         .                                                                                                                            - Lambertville House Restaurant & Bar (restored 19th-century train depot along canal; lunch, dinner, entrees $23-30, burgers $16, indoor and outdoor dining, cellar wine bar with fireplace);                                                                                                                                                                      - Manon (small French bistro, closed Monday and Tuesday, dinner Wednesday thru Sunday, cash only, BYOB);                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     -  Liberty Hall Pizza (Neapolitan wood-fired pizzas, 4.5 of 5 stars, TripAdviser.com);                                                                                                                                                                                          - More Than Q Barbecue (mentioned for NJ listing for Best Barbecue in Every State 2018, "turning out some of the best Texas-style smoked meat the state has ever seen" FoodandWine.com);                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        - Owowcow Creamery (Named 'best ice cream shop in NJ' by NJ.com, locally sourced cream and eggs, natural and organic crafted ingredients with 24 flavors, 4 other shops in PA, 4.5 of 5 stars, Yelp.com)

The Boat House bar
Entrance to The Boat House bar
  • Tours
Free guided walking tours by Lambertville Historical Society held 1st Sunday each month April through October or other times by appointment
* . Things to Do in Lambertville.TripAdvisor.com
*   In Lambertville, antique treasures abound, October 2019, NJMonthly.com
*   Revolutionary War Sites in Lambertville, Revolutionary War New Jersey
*   LambertvilleRestaurants.com
*   Delaware River Tubing, funnewjersey.com
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Delaware & Raritan Canal and Blue Raccoon home furnishings shop. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com
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Lambertville Station Restaurant and Tavern on Delaware & Raritan Canal. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.om
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-- Cape May  -- Asbury Park  -- Ocean Grove  -- Trenton



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