Ending & Remembering World War I in Somerset County

100 years ago the war “Over There” ended “Over Here” in New Jersey. President Warren G. Harding in the first summer of his presidency was on vacation golfing in Somerset County when Congress agreed the Knox-Porter Resolution rescinding the United States’ declaration of war on Germany. President Harding signed the resolution in Raritan on July 2, 1921, officially ending US involvement in World War I. Follow this story of ending and remembering World War I on a self-guided tour of Raritan and Somerville.

Download the self-guided tour from the N.J. State Park Service.

From President Wilson’s attempts to “Keep Us Out of War” to President Harding’s signing of the Knox-Porter Resolution, the memory of World War I runs through New Jersey from the Delaware Bay to High Point.