When I was sitting in the orthodontist’s office a few weeks ago during one of Nick’s appointments, I was thumbing through an issue of New Jersey Monthly. The summer issues are a great source for finding new and fun things to do in New Jersey, and this issue was no exception.
I happened upon a piece that mentioned a cemetery that had goats on its property.
Yes, goats.
I thought it was a little odd, and certainly intriguing, but didn’t end up taking down the information. And then not two days later, I was catching up on Instagram, and a friend had a picture of a goat at a cemetery.
Yes, the same cemetery I had read about just two days earlier.
And that’s when I decided it was fate and we needed to go visit said goats.
We’re getting into doing a regular Sunday adventure day together as a family, and this sounded like a perfect little outing.
 Harsimus Cemetery. Relatively close. Certainly unique. And free. Even better.
The cemetery is very easy to find, but I’m not going to lie… parking is a bit of a challenge. The property isn’t huge and there is one driveway for cars entering AND exiting AND that’s also where you park. So I’m not exactly sure how they handle it when there is more than one car there (we definitely got lucky), but I don’t want to find out either.
Before the cemetery was established in 1829, these grounds were actually where a Revolutionary War skirmish took place, and there is a bunker on the property from the War of 1812. “In October of 1780, General Marquis de Lafayette joined with the American forces, at the request of General George Washington, to challenge the English on these very grounds. Records indicate that General Lafayette led 4000 French troops to assist the American Continental Army against the British troops.”
Historical significance aplenty. 
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