Queen’s Bridge has been an important crossing in the Raritan Valley for at least 240 years and figured in many events there. During the American Revolution, both American and British armies used this bridge. At this spot on January 4, 1777, General George Washington made the final decision to abandon any intention of attacking New Brunswick and instead moved his army northward to winter quarters at Morristown. Thus ended the victorious Trenton-Princeton campaign, saving the Revolution. The first bridge across the Raritan River in this area was completed during the fall of 1761. In 1762, the general assembly passed an act to empower the managers of the Bound Brook Bridge to raise by lottery a sum of money for rebuilding and completing the bridge. The 1767 Somerset County road survey described it as a wood frame bridge. In 1771 another act was passed to raise funds to maintain the bridge, then known by the name of Queen’s Bridge. Sometime later, Queen’s Bridge became a covered wooden bridge. It was next replaced by a classic steel pipe truss bridge in 1875. The stone piers under today’s span, built in 1984, date back to at least 1875.