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Cadwalader Park
Cadwalader Park Cadwalader Park is the largest urban park in the City of Trenton (109.5 acres). Originally the Delaware & Raritan (D&R) Canal State Park flowed . Dr. Thomas Cadwalader of Philadelphia moved to Trenton in 1743 to become Chief Burgess (Burgess was a British title used in the medieval and early modern period to designate someone of the burgher class. It originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh but later coming to mean an official of a municipality or a representative in the House of Commons .). He bought a large tract of land northwest of town where he built a country home, in 1746. The most notable change to this land came between 1832 and 1834 when the feeder for the D&R canal company constructed a canal to supply water from the Delaware River . A bridge c...
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