[Illustration: _The Wick House, built about 1750, and occupied as
quarters by Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair in the winter of 1779-80._]
On the north side of the Tempe Wick Road, about 325 feet west of its
intersection with the Jockey Hollow Road, is the Wick House, which
served in 1779-80 as quarters for Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair, then
commander of the Pennsylvania Line encamped in Jockey Hollow
(Nos. 20-21). The building was erected about 1750 by Henry Wick, a
fairly prosperous farmer who had come to Morris County from Long Island
a few years before. Tempe Wick, his youngest daughter, is said to have
concealed her riding horse in a bedroom of the house, in January 1781,
in order to prevent its seizure by the Pennsylvania mutineers
(pp. 27-28). The interior of the building was furnished with period
pieces following its restoration by the National Park Service in 1935.
Efforts have also been made to recreate, as far as possible, the
colonial atmosphere of the farm itself, as reflected in the nearby
garden, barnyard, orchard, and open fields.
[Illustration: _A corner of the kitchen in the Wick House._]
[Illustration: _The Wick House garden._]