List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey


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 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.

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:
Landmark name
ImageDate establishedLocationCountyDescription
Paterson Great FallsPatersonPassaicA 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 Jersey CityHudsonImmigration processing depot from 1892-1954. A portion of Ellis Island is in New York.
Thomas Edison National Historical ParkWest OrangeEssexInventor Thomas Alva Edison's laboratory and residence, Glenmont
Morristown National Historical ParkMorristownMorrisAmerican Revolutionary War sites: Jockey Hollow, Fort Nonsense, and Ford Mansion