Van Campen's Inn in Walpack Township, New Jersey, began as a colonial yaugh house, a licensed rural dwelling that offered food and shelter to travelers along Old Mine Road near the Delaware River. Established on land settled by the Rosenkrans family around 1730 and acquired by Isaac Van Campen in 1754, the house became a significant frontier refuge and waypoint. During the French and Indian War, settlers sheltered there in times of danger, and during the Revolution troops camped or wintered at the site as they moved through the region. Restored in the 1980s, it endures as a rare survivor of early life, travel, and defense on the Delaware frontier.

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