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    The King's Town, like Prince Town (Princeton) was settled by Europeans in the late seventeenth century (about 1675).  Along the King's Highway, which itself purportedly followed an old Leni Lenape trail in some places, Kingston is marked by the Millstone River.  The place was a stagecoach stop in colonial times, with taverns for the travelers.  Following the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777, Washington had the wooden bridge over the Millstone River destroyed to block Cornwallis, and held his famous conference nearby.  He determined to move his forces to Morristown rather than attack the British in New Brunswick, and the site of this reported "horseback conference" is marked near the Presbyterian Cemetery on Route 27.  In 1834, the Delaware and Raritan Canal was constructed, which passed through Kingston, where one of the locks is located.  Pictured to the left is Rockingham, the house in which George Washington lived and made his headquarters in August 1783 when the Continental Congress relocated to Princeton.  On November 2, 1783, after the end of the war, Washington gave his farewell address to his troops here.  The house has been moved various times from its original site.

    For images of Kingston, click on Kingston 1.