NJ AJR93

Commemorates the 200th anniversary of Timbuctoo, an unincorporated community in Westampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, established in September 1826 by formerly enslaved and free African-Americans

Founded by four men who escaped enslavement in Maryland: David Parker, Wardell Parker, Ezekiel Parker, and Hezekiah Hall

Served as a stop on the Underground Railroad due to its strategic location along Rancocas Creek near the Delaware River, with connections to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church whose members included Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Douglass

Site of the 1860 Battle of Pine Swamp, where residents successfully defended community member Perry Simmons against slave catcher George Alberti's raiding party

Selected in March 2024 as one of the first 32 sites for the New Jersey Black Heritage Trail program by the New Jersey Historical Commission