

The Wick House, built about 1750 by Henry Wick in Jockey Hollow 
which is now part of Morristown National Historical Park, 
administered by the National Park Service. 
The restoration of the historic Wick House, with its colonial 
garden close by, is an authentic picture of the beautiful simplicity of 
design inherent in American rural homes and gardens of the Revolu- 
tionary War Period. According to legend, Captain Wick’s daughter, 
Tempe, hid her favorite riding horse in the house from the Pennsyl- 
vania mutineers who were encamped nearby in the winter of 1781. 
General St. Clair made the house his quarters in the terrible winter of 
1779-80, when the Continental Army was encamped in Jockey Hollow. 
The garden, well-paled-in with a post and rail fence, is a delight- 
ful and fragrant spot in which to linger on a summer day. It is planted 
with herbs and vegetables just as it must have been over one hundred 
and fifty years ago. , 
A wide border bed, just inside the fence, is redolent with Sweet- 
briar roses, gooseberries, Lemon Balm, Lovage, Tansy and Wormwood. 
Sweet old herbs that provided conserves, medicines and teas for the 
household. In the square center beds, rows of vegetables alternate with 
rows of yarbs (herbs for seasoning) for beauty and savor in the pot. 
Weathered boards edge the raised beds and outline the generous paths. 
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